Ok - this is pretty cool. PandoraFM is a sanctioned mashup of last.fm and Pandora which uses your most listened to artists in last.fm to seed the creation of radio stations in Pandora, and then submits tracks that Pandora throws out back into your last.fm profile. Or at least it's supposed to - I'm not getting the tracks showing up in my last.fm profile. Could be last.fm, which has been known to have submission problems from time to time.
Sweet idea - I guess I should do a listen-off between the last.fm player (aggregation) and Pandora (experts).
(Via jason kottke, his last.fm profile, and thus blackbeltjones)
[tags]aggregation, crowds, last.fm, lastfm, collaborative, pandora, music[/tags]
If you've got the right setup (multiple monitors, multiple computers) and want to give each a separate monitor but share a keyboard and mouse, then you need Synergy.
Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).
Redirecting the mouse and keyboard is as simple as moving the mouse off the edge of your screen. Synergy also merges the clipboards of all the systems into one, allowing cut-and-paste between systems.
Pretty amazing - I've got a Windows XP box and a Mac mini hooked up to their own monitors, and with Synergy running. I just need a single keybaord and mouse. Moving between screens is as simple as they say, and shared clipboards round it all off and makes it all feel like a single unified system that can run Windows and OS X software.
So - why not just use Remote Desktop or some flavour of VNC ?
- Remote Desktop is *much* better than VNC. VNC is pretty much the only way of doing remote control of a Mac, so I would be forced to use the Mac mini as the primary computer. I don't particularly want to do this (Mac mini doesn't do dual monitors, slower, etc).
- It's fast ! No screen images to send across the wire (or ether) - just mouse and keyboard data.
Just waiting for my third monitor, and then I'll have a full-on technogeek setup !
[tags]synergy, software, utilities, OSX, remote control[/tags]
I'm beginning to get a little weary of the top-down vs bottom-up divide. It's a small point, but isn't the real paydirt what you might call the side-to-side?
My italics and bold..but what an important point. There is a lot of focus on point-source blogs - where often a single blog is used as a communication channel, allowing, for example, a CEO to "connect" with employees, and to get some real and direct feedback.
Yeah - that's interesting, and for some companies it's even a breakthrough - and I'm speaking from my own consulting experience here with some recent work. But, and here's the point that needs to be emphasized - the CEO blog should be the thin end of the wedge, not the end-goal. Getting senior members of the company blogging should result in more understanding and adoption of blogging, with the aim of creating an internal blogosphere. Why is that good ? Because that's when you start to reap the benefits of being able to aggregate, tag, subscribe, connect, datamine, and share all that information (sometimes known as knowledge) - and not in a formally mandated ("here's your KM template form to fill in to share knowledge") way.
[tags]internal, blogs, CEO, blogging, enterprise[/tags]
Bill Ives is writing an article on enterprise social bookmarking (del.icio.us inside the enterprise / behind the firewall), and points to an interesting paper in the ACM Queue by the IBM dogear team. A reminder that I'm storing a list of (available) tools for an internal use here. [tags]internal, social, bookmarks, dogear, tags[/tags]
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