Flickr just announced one terabyte of space for every user!

May 21st, 2013

Very interesting coming one day after they announce the acquisition of Tumblr and their promise not to screw it up. The look and feel of the site has also been updated and places all of the focus on the images. I wonder how this will affect the pro model that they use?

The BBC reports

“It puts Flickr back on the agenda making it relevant to both hobbyist and professional photographers alike, but it also reignites the whole storage capacity war that started with Gmail and that we are now seeing with cloud file sharing services.”

Google offers users a total of 15GB of free storage across its core cloud services. Facebook does not impose such a limit but downgrades the quality of high-resolution photos.

Google Glass – This is funny and true

April 26th, 2013

Jesus Christ, Silicon Valley on Google Glass.
This is the funniest thing I have read since Fake Steve Jobs.

Up all night to get lucky

April 23rd, 2013

Love this new song from Daft Punk featuring one of my musical heroes, Nile Rodgers. This snippet of the video looks really cool too. It’s been a while since I wanted to get an album before it came out. I heard the song three times last weekend when I was out. It’s no surprise it’s number 1 everywhere. Pharrel Williams sounds great too.

St. Issac’s Cathedral

March 30th, 2013

Just arrived in Russia on the ferry from Helsinki. Great sight to begin the visit to the city.
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Norwegian airlines now offers direct weekend flights between Helsinki and Dublin all year round. #aerlingus #norwegian #helsinki #dublin

March 22nd, 2013

I was searching for a flight home yesterday and was surprised when hipmunk found a direct flight between Helsinki and Dublin. When I saw it was offered by Norwegian Airlines, I headed to kayak.com as they offer a tool for looking up direct flights from any airport. In addition to the usual Aer Lingus schedule (Saturday and Tuesday), I saw that Norwegian offer direct flights on Friday and Monday which is much more sensible for a weekend break. I personally prefer this schedule and have already booked an extra trip with Norwegian. I wonder why the schedule planning team in Aer Lingus couldn’t have offered what the city break consumer wanted on the Dublin- Helsinki route?

Reasons you need your own website

February 18th, 2013

Just saw this post and many of the reasons also apply to organisations and individuals outside of music. I don’t understand why many business point potential customers to a facebook or myspace page.
Especially, when they are not controlling the experience.

It’s your’s… forever

I’ve said this more than once in this post.

You get the point right?

Your Facebook Page and your Bandcamp page are NOT yours. They belong to other people and cannot be forced to do all the things that you might want to do.

Text editor inside the browser

January 30th, 2013

Type the following text into the address bar of your browser.

data:text/html;charset=utf-8, <title>TextEditor</title><body contenteditable style="font-size:2rem;font-family:monaco;line-height:1.4;max-width:60rem;margin:0 auto;padding:4rem;" spellcheck="false"><h1>Text Editor</h1><p>Start Here.

Voila, a text editor inside your browser.
Thanks to Jose Jesus Perez Aguiaga and the commenters. There may even be better suggestions in the comments later on.

Facebook may be building a web search engine in addition to their Graph Search

January 28th, 2013

Why do I think this? I have created some new sites in the last two weeks, some of which I have not publicised or linked to on Facebook. Very soon after publishing new pages, the site has stats from what looks like a facebook crawler on the site. Very interesting. It seems to be much more active in crawling the site than Microsoft or Google. This would suggest that they are collecting their own map of the internet outside of links that are posted within Facebook. What else could it mean than building data for a generic web search engine? Haven’t really seen anyone else mention this so far.

Jukka Eskola – Chip ‘n’ Charge

January 25th, 2013

I was just thinking about how it has been so long since I have heard a new album from the people around Nuspirit Helsinki and the Five Corners Quintet that I did a search on youtube. I found the above piece which sounds great. I’ll be looking to buy that album on my next music buying spree.