Following from the previous prototype Adam has launched his twitter bot which will recommend you other artists based on one you send it. It was first demoed at Mashed 08 but has now gone live for anyone using twitter to use. Just send a message using @recomme or direct message recomme with a single artist name and it will search through last.fm and other sources like /programmes for other artists it thinks you might like. Simple but clever.
A new Mashup from Chris Riley, this time it shows as much information about a playing track as it can on one screen and updates in real time with the last.fm feed. The interesting part is, where you can put in your last.fm username and it will look and see if you will like the current track. Awesome stuff
I've written a new mashup - https://www.trackplaying.com - it displays information about the track currently playing on the radio. It takes data from Â鶹Éç Music (beta), Last.fm and Amazon, and is hosted on Google App Engine. Mashup heaven! It is based on that some of you may recall.
I was with Rain at and thought I’d pick up on a few of the other talks given while we were there.
In this post I've pulled together my notes from the presentations from Margaret Robertson of Gamecity and lead economist on Eve, Eyjolfur Gudmundsson. There's an interview with online as well as from handheldlearning. I'll be posting my impressions from the Dare to be Digital competition in part 2 as soon as I can as well as my notes from Graham's presentation.
Overall I really enjoyed the festival. There was tons to play with and some excellent talks on subjects that you maybe wouldn’t find at other games festivals. Here’s my take on it all...
I was lucky enough to attend the , it was an awesome 3 days and I heard some great presentations.
Much of what I heard was about innovation and what is changing in the games/interactive industry and communities – such as new ideas & audiences that are turning traditional attitudes on their heads – I certainly came back suffering from information overload, but in a good way! It was a very busy conference, but I managed to grab a few with some of the attendees.
The festival also encompassed the video games competition for student games designers and developers, where I saw some interesting and varied demos from the University of Abertay Dundee. Teams had 10 weeks to develop a game prototype. There are three winners and each wins a cash prize and a BAFTA nomination for the BAFTA ‘Ones to Watch’ award which will be announced in March next year.
My colleague Brendan will be following up this post with some of his highlights from EIF08. Anyway, to be getting on with, below are notes from a few of the presentations…
Join the Â鶹Éç iplayer team on Thursday August 14th for some food, drinks, and anything you want to know. Anthony Rose (Head of Digital Media Technology) and Matthew Browning (Senior Software Engineer) will be the special guests at the . From the site...
We are going to meet up in the same nice Thai restaurant that we went to last time, and have been able to arrange a nice variety of food again, costs will be £8. Although the event starts at 6:30pm, the food won’t arrive until 7:30pm and the talk won’t start before 8pm, so no need to hurry too much to make it on time to our venue. So go to to sign up and maybe even pay in advance. Don’t forget to mention any special messages like whether or not you’re vegetarian.
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