I wake up and decide to put on some music that will throw me into my wide awake state, something that will work like a aural jolt of caffeine. Bio-medical engineer by day Gregg Gillis slips into his alter-ego, Girl Talk, and creates the quintessential mash up album of the year, Night ripper.My next challenge is find myself a new running circuit around the unfamiliar downtown, I pull up the mapmyrun.com site and figure out a route that some much more geographically informed jogger has already explored. A friend asks me to help her find a place to live in the US and with the public facing stigma of searching directly within craigslist (sitting in Starbucks looking at a site that sells both used kitchen appliances and teenage sex services seems to make me feel embarrassed) I call up a google map/craigslist housing site and bookmark it to review on my way to my client meeting. Read the rest of this entry »

the Shazam site (for those of us not aware of Shazam, imagine having the person you knew at college with the infinite record collection and who knew a song within 3 seconds of it being played actually living inside your mobile phone) has a lovely new web 2.0 style application, that attempts to show the links between the musicEnough said really, best thing is to take a look yourself Click here to explore

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