Twitter remains fucked.
This went up yesterday:
Yeah, cheers for that small cat with screwdriver. Why am I not filled with confidence?
Cheers Mel, but I’m gonna walk.
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When I was at the Googleplex a few months back I heard that the project to drop a translation service into Google Talk was coming along really well. The idea is that you’ll be able to chat someone on the other side of the world (or even in the same building as you I guess) without the language barrier. So I’d type in English and they’d receive the DM in their own language. Their replies would then also appear to me instantly translated. Not quite there yet, but very fucking cool.
Now add that kind of functionality into Spinvox.
A year or so ago I did a fun interview with Chinese director Zhang Yuan. His replies were often lengthy and yet what the translator passed back to me was often very short. It was kind of frustrating. Now if we’d been able to push the translator aside and stick in a couple of GoogleSpin ear pieces instead… then my English would be transcribed via Spinvox into text then pushed through a Google translate-bot before being sent on to his earpiece as spoken Chinese.
And vice versa.
Is that doable? I should ask James.
Go watch the Evernote presentation.
Haven’t got my invite yet (come on guys!) but it looks like this year’s Skitch. And I already want to have that app’s babies. I may have to marry both and visit on alternate weekends.
And moleskines just got upgraded:
Now I have hipster drool in my beard.
My new HG10 is here:
Canon kindly sent me one as part of their Canon Camera Buzz sponsorship. It’s been pottering around in the post for almost a week, but I finally got my hands on it:
Now to point it at things…
UPDATE: Thanks guys! My inbox is MELTING. I have more than enough replies. If you already emailed me then you’re in with a chance. Anything I get after 23.59 on December 21st will not be considered. Cheers!
I’ve been looking for an excuse to post the Daft Punk ‘body remix’ videos that have been doing the rounds and what better introduction than a Radio 1 documentary that my friend Talia did. You can check it out here.
That’s probably the first time I’ve listened to Radio 1 since the Tommy Vance Friday Night Rock Show back in 1989.
Anyway, here are the vids:
And check out Talia’s blog here. She’s my lifeline into pop. I tend to dismiss everything with very little reason, but Talia introduced me to Northern State’s Can I Keep This Pen? (The one and only time I’ve ever resorted to iTunes - and what a piece of shit experience that was) and The Pierces. Fuck it, it’s Saturday night -let’s post some more vids:
Northern State are great. Think Le Tigre stroking The Beastie Boys. And The Pierces have WHISTLING and a James Bond theme song thing going on which kills me:
And if you’re into podcasts - which I’m not at all, but am learning to appreciate slowly - then you need to check out Podcast Dot Com. It’s a really nice idea and the guy behind it is smart as a whip.
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