YouTube Madness

Lot’s o’ YouTube:

YouTube will be available on the upcoming HP MediaSmart Connect digital media receiver.
iPhone 2.0 will add in-browser YouTube support.
TimeTube is a mashup that creates a YouTube timeline visualization.
Make your own custom MTV with this YT/Last.fm mashup.
Playstation3 is rolling out the ability to upload in-game captures directly to YouTube.
The JVC GZ-MS100 camcorder offers one-touch [...]

Filed under: Mashups, Tools, video

MSNBC Visual Newsreader

Wow. A well-done, unexpected bit of interactive experimentation from MSNBC.

Filed under: Flash, Ideas, Mashups

Bent Festival 2008 NYC

Forgot about this. The Bent Festival NYC is happening this weekend in NYC. Make has some highlights:
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Filed under: Art, DIY, Festivals, Mashups

Music Notes+News+Link Dump

Grand Theft Auto 4 will sport embedded music purchasing through Amazon MP3.
Hype Machine adds some new features, including “scrobbling” (scraping your listening history) and LastFM integration.
Imeem recently unveiled an API/development platform.
Warner Music proposes a “music tax” on ISPs. EMI hires Google CIO Doug Merrill to run digital music, and he doesn’t like DRM. Sony [...]

Filed under: Mashups, Music

BBC Radio Mashup

BBC Radio has an interesting mashup prototype that associates data from LastFM, LyricsFly, and MusicBrainz, as well as media from YouTube and Flickr, with currently playing song metadata.
The idea is to take the basic now-playing data from our music radio networks, throw it at the web, and see what we can get back. We could [...]

Filed under: Mashups, Music

Yahoo Easy Listener Media Player

Easylistener
Kinda neat. The scraping a page functionality is a little suspect at times, but other than that it seems pretty solid.
Easylistener is a Flash music player which can literally play any page on the web. Simply point it at your favorite music blog, RSS feed or playlist document and it will crawl that URL and [...]

Filed under: Mashups, Music

Radio Remixed

A couple of interesting Radio/Music/Interweb mashups—
The Pirate Bay has launched a music discovery section, utilizing LastFM data. Probably could use a decent interface, but a nice idea.
KEXP in Seattle has launched Kexplorer, a music discovery/sharing app built around it’s program stream. Kexplorer allows you to tag songs while listening to the stream, and allows you [...]

Filed under: Distribution, Internet Radio, Mashups, Music

Splice Music

Splice Music is a combination social-networking/audio-remix site, where users can meet/re/mix/mashup audio in real-time, save and share the results.

Filed under: Mashups, Music

Make and Mash Your Video

Mashable has put together a list of 150 video tools and resources, including service providers/hosting, tutorials, widgets, tools and encoding. Once your video is complete, you can then put it in context with these 13 video APIs.
Techcrunch blurbs startup Hey!Spread, which serves as a single upload point for multiple video hosting sites, such as YouTube, [...]

Filed under: Film+Video, Mashups, Tips+Tutorials, Tools

The Music Visualizations of Andrew Kuo

The awesome, humorous data visualizations of music/concerts by Andrew Kuo, who posts his work at earlboykins.blogspot.com, were recently highlighted in The New York Times.

(from NYT graphic) Hat tip: Information Aesthetics

Filed under: Mashups, Music, New Media

Aronofsky to Produce Additional Extras for “Fountain” DVD Independently

Unhappy with the quality/quantity of the extras for The Fountain DVD, Darren Aronofsky has decided to release a downloadable commentary track in the near future. From Cinematical and Aronofsky’s Myspace blog:
“As many of you can tell it [the DVD] is light on extras as compared to my previous DVD releases. Everything at the studio was [...]

Filed under: Distribution, Film+Video, Mashups, Media Technology, New Media