Disqus - Latest Comments for haynes_dave

Re: Going To Midem?

haynes_dave — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:35:16 -0000

@jack hehe, no I'd say that's pretty much certain! Think it only lasted a couple of years.

Re: Mobile In/Mobile Out

haynes_dave — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:07:21 -0000

Definitely agree that we need better tools for blog reading on mobile devices. I do 90% of my blog reading on a mobile. Previously on a Nokia N95 and now on my iPhone, both times using Bloglines. I found reading and making comments next to impossible on the N95 but it's far easier on my iPhone. Yet there are still features I really need.

Easy bookmarking to remind me to read a post in full when back at a computer. This is especially the case when it's a post that has media like videos or slideshows that I can't read in the device browser.

As mentioned above, more support for rich media and flash content / videos in blog posts.

Simple and ubiquitous tools to allow me to share interesting posts and links to twitter etc.

Offline reading for when I'm on the underground or out in the countryside with bad reception.

Re: Disrupting Class and Playing Games

haynes_dave — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:27:37 -0000

Totally agree with you here. My son is only just one month old but I've already been thinking about this subject. I think part of the answer is for like minded parents to build some fun local / after school classes.

Run a term on programming simple games, a term on building stuff with Arduino boards, a term on fun craft activities etc.

Start with very fun activities for the kids and build complexity ad they get older. I'm not sure how well it scales but if education like this isn't there for our kids then I think we have a duty as parents to provide it wherever possible.

Re: Soundcloud - Flickr For Musicians

haynes_dave — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:09:41 -0000

What with all the recent talk about The Cloud Player I sometimes forget myself about one of the earliest applications that was built on top of the API - www.radioclouds.com - it's a nice visual radio app that shows a users social graph while listening to tracks from his/her network. Nice to have on in the background or at the office.

Re: Soundcloud - Flickr For Musicians

haynes_dave — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:39:09 -0000

I work for SoundCloud and am out there every day talking to artists, labels, studios, producers and A&R guys etc about the service and yes they have bigger problems but they quickly realise that SoundCloud is gonna become part of their daily toolkit for doing business in the music industry.

As for the bigger picture stuff I think the killer touch here is the SoundCloud API and developer platform. I envisage more and more great applications being built around this. Just like I can import my photos from Flickr directly into a service like Animoto to create an animated music video, musicians will be able to pull their music into other services that add value. For example we've already seen one MP3 download store build a tool for their labels to automatically deliver music to them via SoundCloud. (http://blog.soundcloud.com/2008/11/21/digital-t...).

Another subtle but very nice feature is that SoundCloud is allowing users to markup their tracks with Creative Commons licenses. So to take my previous analogy further I can really imagine going on to a service like Animoto and pulling in my photos from Flickr and importing a CC licensed track from SoundCloud that I have previously tagged as a favourite. To me these possibilities are extremely exciting and is what the new age of the Web is all about.

Re: Thinking About Meetups

haynes_dave — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:32:47 -0000

well actually Kate's banned me from using Twitter in the labour ward :) But I'm not sure I'll be able to resist. So I can bore the whole world with forthcoming baby pics.

Re: InSoul Sessions Vol 2.

haynes_dave — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:55:50 -0000

sounds interesting, is there a link to check out more about the Musicians Meetup.

Re: InSoul Sessions Vol 2.

haynes_dave — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:55:11 -0000

there's actually a number of different vocalists on this album including Amma, Omega , Tracey Kelliher & Soul Sista

Re: A Band Took Angel Investment. Is that Crazy?

haynes_dave — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:12:49 -0000

actually there are some sites where musicians can try and find investors. The main two are Sellaband and SliceThePie.

Re: WMG exits Last.fm - their loss, not mine

haynes_dave — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:47:39 -0000

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich<img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.co.uk/e/ir?t=bytemusi-21&l=as2&o=2&a=0307353133" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />

Re: Baby Charles - I Bet You Look Good on the... - Joe Lazarus

haynes_dave — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:55:25 -0000

great idea. And what a great cover too! One of my favourites in fact...

Re: This has to be the most useless beta software

haynes_dave — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:46:24 -0000

I live in the UK but can listen to Pandora by connecting to the VPN at work (think this gives me a US IP Address).