"Animoto is a service that helps you create amazing videos out of your photos with very little effort. There are just a couple of steps involved because Animoto handles the creative side, resulting in really cool videos. All you need to do is upload photos from your computer or grab them from one of the supported photo sharing sites."
"The medal ceremonies are some of my favorite parts of the Olympics. You get to hear the national anthem of the gold medal winner, and if you don't look at the screen, it's fun to try to guess what country the winner is from. Now you can study up on national anthems from around the globe with All National Anthems, a Yahoo! Maps mashup that allows you to find your favorite country and play the national anthem by clicking on the nation's capital."
"We work directly with independent musicians world-wide to give you downloads of MP3s and perfect-quality WAV files. We never work with major labels, and our musicians always get 50%. You can listen to every album in its entirety before buying or becoming a member"
"05-06-2008 [6th May] WeLoveFreeMusic.com officially opens
"Streamzy is simple to use: Search for music using the artist or song name, and select how many search results you'd like. The service goes out, grabs music from sites that host the music and make it available for streaming, and cleans up any bad results before you click Play. From there, you can click any of the songs in the search results to start streaming it, or drag it to the playlist window at the bottom of the page. The service starts you off with a default playlist; to add more you'll have to sign up for a Streamzy account (free)."
"The voting patterns in the Eurovision Song Contest have attracted attention from various researchers, spawning a small cross-disciplinary field of what might be called 'eurovisiopsephology' incorporating insights from politics, sociology and computer science. Although the outcome of the contest is decided using a simple electoral system, its single parameter - the number of countries casting a vote - varies from year to year. Analytical identification of statistically significant trends in voting patterns over a period of several years is therefore mathematically complex. Simulation provides a method for reconstructing the contest's history using Monte Carlo methods. Comparison of simulated histories with the actual history of the contest allows the identification of statistically significant changes in patterns of voting behaviour, without requiring a full mathematical solution. In particular, the period since the mid-90s has seen the emergence of large geographical voting blocs from previously small voting partnerships, which initially appeared in the early 90s. On at least two occasions, the outcome of the contest has been crucially affected by voting blocs. The structure of these blocs implies that a handful of centrally placed countries have a higher probability of being future winners."
"After implementing Wii interface sounds into WiiNintendo’s sister site, Wiifii.net and using Wii Sports sounds in a video, I’ve been asked dozens of times if I could send them the sounds I recorded directly off the Wii. I decided to release WiiNintendo’s first album entitled “Wii Sounds”, this album is a free download via SendSpace or Torrent and includes such classics as:
"Songerize is a simplified interface for the SeeqPod.com music search engine. Think of us as SeeqPod's "I'm Feeling Lucky" button. If you have any inquiries about the music provided by this service, please contact SeeqPod directly. "
"But Tymoczko may have changed all that. Borrowing some of the mathematics that string theorists invented to plumb the secrets of the physical universe, he has found a way to represent the universe of all possible musical chords in graphic form. "He's not the first to try," says Yale music theorist Richard Cohn. "But he's the first to come up with a compelling answer.""
"We've seen plenty of sites that let you make or mix music in a rudimentary way, but none that offer the deep feature set of Hobnox AudioTool. This free online electronic music studio lets you compose with two TB-303 Bass Line generators, Roland TR-808 and TR-909 drum machines and two banks of effects pedals including three delays, crusher, detune, flanger, reverb, a parametric equalizer and a compressor. By clicking the mouse button, you can drag virtual cables between any output and any input to customize the setup."
