Bother no more

We're in the december 2009 issue of Wired UK!

Bakertweet was featured in Wired's guide to the UK Twitterati

Having been one of my favorite magazines for a long time, it's so much fun to be in it! Here's the whole Twitterati line up.

The evolution of clean cleaning graffiti

From the closet artists..

..through to the activists and guerillas..

..and the hard boiled and serious..

..to the utterly ridiculous, Cleaning Unit:

Gesture based UI

I'm usually quite a sceptic when it comes to these things, but this actually doesn't look too bad.

Google from above

Get 3D data into maps by crowd sourcing:

Make your own tracks with The Sound of Orange Rockcorps

During the past couple of months I've been working on this Poke project for Orange. It's an amazing feat of web technology where you can record your own sounds and have them mashed up with your friends into songs.

We built this project using a Django backend, Sox, lame, ffmpeg and aubio for audio processing, amqp-js for realtime communication between flash and the server, red5 and an IVR system for note recording and lots of glue in the form of RabbitMQ.

For the song playback we use Standingwave, an open source AS3 library for sequencing and synthesising sounds.

Be sure to check out the auto tuner and phone recording, it's special. =)

Here's my incredibly silly attempt on Ting tings - That's not my name:

This is the original

I dare you to go make a better one! The Sound of Orange Rockcorps

Milo the creepy human tamaguchi

There's some seriously cool technology in Project Natal but I can't help feeling totally creeped out by the boy in Lionhead.

2 million TV's are located in US bathrooms

Some really interesting facts in this video by XPLANE and The Economist

95% of all music downloads last year was unpaid for.
Youtube, MySpace and Facebook takes 250 million unique visitors per month.
Nokia makes 13 cell phones per second.

Here's the sources for all facts in the video

Girl, most associated with Trouble

Brushing up on natural language processing (NLTK) and saw this amusing example from the Brown Corpus.

Seems like Trouble is for a Girl what Butter is for Bread.

Amazon recommends switching from EC2 to Google App engine

Having used the Amazon web services hosting stack for a while, this email felt quite ambiguous.

Going Just Awesome

My desk buddy Jamie had an idea to create a wordle out of your twitter stream. I know I'm late to the game with this one but I liked the outcome of mine. Going Just Awesome.