I will never, ever forget downloading and running the demo of ReBirth sometime in 1997. These incredible sounds were coming out of my computer, and the future seemed amazing and limitless. Interesting career note, I remember thinking I MUST LEARN HOW TO WRITE THIS KIND OF SOFTWARE. Heh.
I probably will forget the first time I saw Hobnox (today), not because it’s any less awesome than ReBirth was in 97, but because we’re so spoiled with virtual instruments coming out our ears (and phones).
As a developer, I’m stoked that they can do this much in Flash in realtime. As a user, I’m frustrated that I don’t seem to be able to save my creations or bounce them out to aif or mp3, but I’m sure all that’s coming.
What do you guys think? Will we be making music in our browsers any time soon?
Wow. Just wow. Did they think that no MI customer might also be a gamer? Or that Gamespot is such an off-the-beaten path obscure site that nobody would recognize their copied-wholesale design?
Doug sure does earn his reputation.
UPDATE:
Looks like someone from Gamespot tried to call them on it:
So in my last post, I said I was looking for the ‘Flickr of video’. Lo and behold, Flickr added video like the very next day.I like it a lot. The 90-second limit is of no consequence to me, as their whole ‘longer photos’ concept seems very appropriate on their site. Now, how do I embed Flickr video on wordpress.com?
Oh, that’s right: I’ve moved this blog to wordpress.com. artgillespie.com redirects here, but not as seamlessly as I’d hoped: you still see artgillespie.wordpress.com when you’re here, so I imagine this probably broke anyone reading via RSS. D’oh.
EDIT: As it turns out, I can get the domain working the way I want. Whee!
YouTube’s wacky privacy settings have sent me looking for a better way to share videos with friends and family. I’m trying out Vimeo and so far it seems pretty great. The biggest thing these sites don’t get is that it’s a bit much to coach my grandmother through signing up for their site just so she can see a video of her great-granddaughter. Vimeo handles this nicely with the password-protected feature: give your friends and family the password for your video and they can view it without signing up for Vimeo. To wit, the password for the video embedded above is ‘friday’.
I could do without the car ads on my video’s page though. I’d happily pay to have an ad-free page, but that doesn’t seem to be an option. Any suggestions for a family-oriented video sharing service that is dead simple for non-Web-2.0 peeps to use?
I just realized that except for my Bloody Show post live from the delivery room (thanks iPhone!) I haven’t mentioned the big news on my blog.
Friday was born at 10:01 p.m. on March 27th and she’s just completely awesome. I’ll have to write a longer post about the experience soon, but for now, you can check out her site which also links to her ongoing Flickr set.Initial assessment of fatherhood: highly recommended.
