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Where is the Microsoft Surface theme song?

February 12, 2013

For the launch of Windows95, Microsoft licensed Start Me Up from the Rolling Stones as a way to kick off the biggest software upgrade in the company’s history and forever brand Mick Jagger’s crooning with a key feature of Win95. Now we have the Surface. Where’s the theme song?

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Yo La Tengo in Portland

December 20, 2012

Yo La Tengo previewed a track off their upcoming album, Fade, on YouTube. The track in the video above is Ohm and features a tree from Overlook Park in Portland, Oregon that is also on the album’s cover. Fade will be released in January.  

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Flaming Lips makes the upsell into an art form

September 20, 2011

I’ve written about the innovative use of the premium upsell as something instructive for anyone selling premium content. I just learned about the Flaming Lips Gummy Bear skull which they released earlier this year which has turned the whole premium upsell thing into an art form. I love it! Embedded inside a 7-pound gummy bear [...]

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Steve Ballmer Developers Rap

May 4, 2011

Mad props for getting Linus Torvalds into a rap song. This has to be a first. Smixx – Developers (feat. Steve Ballmer) by Smixx

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The world is not going to change. Each one of us will change.

March 25, 2011

It has been two weeks since the disaster in Japan. We can choose to look at this as a setback or an opportunity. Mother Nature has taught us all a valuable lesson. A lesson we seemed doomed to learn again and again. We are not masters of our domain, we are but passengers on this [...]

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will.i.am on chips talking to chips

February 23, 2011

In a post last year, I paraphrased a quote, “If you are not paying for a product, you are the product.” Will.i.am recently updated this quote with the line, You are either the person getting pimped, or you’re the person doing the pimping. The video below of will.i.am from the Black-Eyed Peas speaking with John [...]

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Bohemian Rhapsody on Ukulele

February 5, 2011

TED has a video of Jake Shimabukuro playing Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody on his Ukulele. As Jake says, “If everyone played the Ukulele, this world would be a much happier place.”

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Fun with SoundCloud

January 22, 2010

I’ve been playing around with a service based here in Berlin called SoundCloud. It’s geared towards DJs who want to distribute their mixes making it drop-dead easy to upload typically large files and embed them across the web in widgets. The closest thing I would compare it to is the flickr badge for photos or [...]

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Misa, a touchpad guitar

January 20, 2010

The Misa is “not a guitar” says Michael, it’s creator based out of Sydney, Australia. The Misa is designed to play electronic music. In electronic music, the timbre (or colour) of the sound can be morphed in an infinite number of ways. For a guitar to accommodate this, the right hand needs more control than [...]

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Phish, Embracing the Remix

October 22, 2009

Jam bands like the Grateful Dead and Phish have always been ahead of the curve with how they let their fans record their concerts because as Jerry Garcia famously said, “Once we’re done with it, it’s theirs.” These bands have always made more money on their tours than record sales anyway and because each show [...]

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