Opentape is inspired by Muxtape’s success and untimely shutdown. Sharing your musical tastes should be fun and easy. We believe there is no reason it has to end with the shutdown of a single site, so we’ve created a free tool to make this possible.
More than that, Opentape is also designed to be a network,
The Opentape Discovery Network will let you share your mixtape with new listeners and find other people running Opentape.
It’s like the Identi.ca story is repeating.
How cool is that!
Things is a task management application — in the GTD style — for Mac OS X. It comes with a nice companion iPhone app that syncs via Wi-Fi.
I tried a lot of apps but Things is certainly one of most efficient I’ve used so far. Its workflow fits nicely with the way I work.
In the same kind, some people would rather use OmniFocus, but I would recommend Things for its ease of use.
However, the iPhone app lacks two things to be complete: (1) a button for quickly adding tasks to your inbox (2) tags as in the desktop app.
Things is priced at $49 for the desktop and $9.99 for the iPhone.
Web Hooks is an open initiative to standardize event notifications between web services by subscribing to URLs.
Web hooks are a way to get events and data in realtime from their web applications. From this they can use the data however they like, empowering them with the ability to extend and integrate, and start seeing the true vision of the programmable web.
I’m a big fan of the listener pattern and I’ve been using it on each web service I’ve built. Having it standardized would open a lot of possibilities and avoid polling like crazy!
I don’t generally post anything about gaming news but this one is a bit special. It’s the (hard) work of friends (and ex-colleagues) from Asobo Studio in Bordeaux, France.
It’s a car racing game taking place in an impressive open world. Maps are mostly computer generated with advanced visual effects and real-time weather conditions.
The game has been in development for about four years and I’m glad they’ve finally found an editor with Codemasters.
Congratulations guys, I’ll be the first to buy it.
I just installed the commenting system Disqus to manage comments on this blog.
Disqus is a hosted service that replace and enhance the native comment system of your blog — Disqus support the most popular blogging engines but can work on any website — by adding threaded comments, video comments, email & mobile replies, tracking & subscription, ratings, spam protection and more.
Disqus have great features and is a real improvement over the Wordpress native commenting system. However having to host the comments on a 3rd party service was my main gripe about it.
What would happen if I don’t want to use it anymore, or switch to a different service?
With Disqus 2.0, this limitation is now gone. All comments are synced back to your Wordpress database. Neat.
Disqus also includes a built-in social network with profiles. Tracking conversation over multiple blog can be a pain, but with more and more people joining the Disqus network, I can track them right from the Disqus dashboard. Here is my profile on Disqus.
If you commented on any blog powered by Disqus without having an account, no need to worry, you can claim your profile and get back the ownership of all comments you posted so far.
Installation of the Wordpress plugin is easy. When configured, you can import all your Wordpress comments to Disqus. CSS-ing is another good point. It’s straightforward to customize the comment widget to match your blog style.
The Disqus team is very active and respond quickly to user problems. I had an issue installing the plugin with an older version of Wordpress (2.3); posted a message on Twitter about that; Daniel Ha (co-founder of Disqus) replied to me immediately and helped me figure out what was wrong. Thanks!
However, Disqus still need improvements: (1) I can’t edit comments — I generally rewrite comments for typos; (2) I still have an issue with trackbacks, I don’t know if they have been successfully imported but they don’t show up; (3) email subscription.
I’m pretty sure these issues will be fixed soon.
UPDATE: edit is now enabled for your own comments.
Results are pretty amazing. I can imagine this technology embedded in point-and-shoot cameras.
Fred Brunel is a technology enthusiast with over 15 years of high-tech industry experience in building innovative technology & products. He has a real passion for our digital world.
