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Daft Punk, 8bit.
Imagine that all the music of DaftPunk (you know, Tron and that stuff) would be played on old videogame consoles.
Well, it exists. And it is as awesome as it sounds.
It all started in 2008 as a music competition organized on 8bitcollective by two french artists, Je deviens dj en 3 jours and Zombectro. The best tunes were selected by a jury and published on a first compilation called “DA CHIP”. Now, four years later, they bring us the series’ second installment. And it’s just as epic as the first one.
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A new Brave trailer! Oh, and it’s awesome! I am so looking forward to finally watch this movie. (via)
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Husvild #1.
Troels Abrahamsen has released a new record on BandCamp today. I’m a sucker for all things Abrahamsen – so this is a no brainer for me. You can get the Album here.
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We have no actual release dates for the Skyrim expansions. No specific plans. But we do have what sounds like a long-term commitment to beefing up this game. Howard says his team is “very early” into the development of the DLC, but it’s happening. Skyrim will be getting bigger—much bigger, it sounds like.
I haven’t even explored all of Skyprim yet, but I am really liking the idea that the game will evolve even further.
Mounted combat, anyone?
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Trouble for HipChat.
Well, crap. I don’t know how Apple came to this design. Do I think they copied us? Probably not (but as a designer, I’ll take the compliment). Regardless of how Apple arrived at this design, one of us has to change. It’s really confusing for our users, and they’re really all we care about.
It was actually the first thing I noticed when I was playing around with Apple’s new Message App yesterday: Both HipChat’s and Apple’s icon look really, really similar.
It is, as Curley notes, a tough time for HipChat:
Brands are hard to create, and apparently easy to crush.
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The Tools We Need vs. The Tools We Build.
I love to create things. Making something out of nothing, coming up with ideas and transforming thoughts into reality is – for the most part – an incredible joy.
Today, the range of tools we can use to bring ideas to life appears to be nearly endless. And yet most of the tools fail at one basic principle: Immediately showing us what we create. This is especially true when you create something with code.
What you see here – or, more precisely, don’t see – is a pulsating circle. It’s all there, but in order for you to see it, you’d first need to compile that code (If you have a webkit browser you can see it in action here).
What if we could see and interact with the output of the code directly? Why isn’t coding more like drawing a picture? How does it come that traditional tools, like pen and paper, are still the benchmark when it comes to connecting the creator with her piece of work?
I’m talking (and thinking) about all of this, because I stumbled upon an incredible talk by Bret Victor on that exact topic. It is a strong reminder, that there is still so much innovation possible – and that our shiny digital tools have still so much potential.
If you have the time, I encourage you to watch Victor’s talk. It’s an hour well spend.
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The new BaseCamp is moving in a great direction. It is blazing fast and the sheet based navigation seems to work pretty well. Also, the “Catch Up” option is a useful thing. Looking forward to use it!
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Now Arrington and Siegler have appointed themselves the watchdogs of tech journalism, eager to point out the irresponsible and inaccurate reporting that they see all around them. This might ring a little less hollow if they hadn’t been such egregious violators themselves, and if they weren’t writing this stuff to protect the people they’re in bed with financially.
(…) They’re not the only ones working this racket. Now we have PandoDaily, a new tech blog crated by their TechCrunch pal Sarah Lacy and funded by CrunchFund and a bunch of other VCs and angels whose companies PandoDaily aims to cover.
Arrington and Siegler – Silicon Valley’s new hypocrits? Dan Lyons thinks so, makes some very valid points and goes on full confrontation.
Grab your popcorn – this is going to get interesting.
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Of course I’m paranoid about it — I am an entrepreneur, which means I am paranoid about everything,” said Winbladh. “I won’t say I am not concerned, but they will actually help me to execute even better because it will help me galvanize the team.Hjalmar Winbladh, co-founder of Wrapp, talking about how the outlook of a potential Samwer clone helps him and his team to focus more and execute better. Who had guessed that there can be something positive about being attacked by Berlin’s clonefactory number one?
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Timehop is a service I enjoy quite a bit lately. By surfacing the content you put on various social networks exactly one year ago, it acts as a nice, personal time machine. Take the e-mail they’ve send me today: Apparently the Egyptian revolution was in full swing a year ago – and BankSimple still remained US only.
2012 feels a lot like 2011.
