Marcel Neuhausler's World

I just finished the first release of my PCM (personal content management system). The system I built uses CouchDB, SimpleDB, and a few servlets written in Java to listen, store, aggregate, and publish all the content I produce on Twitter, delicious, NyTimes People, this blog, and other sites. The nice thing, I can still use the regular interface of all those sites to enter content, while in the background my system is gathering that content automatically. That content then gets stored twice, in a local database and in the "Amazon cloud". From where the content then gets published to the ticker page in my new blog: Neuhäusler Weekly.

.. and of course I already have a ton of ideas how I could improve the system :-) ..

Posted by mneuhaus at 03:34 PM | Permalink

BBC starts to rock online world: "The BBC has staked a claim to a virtual tropical island where it can stage online music festivals and throw exclusive celebrity parties.

The rented island exists in online game Second Life and will hold its first event this weekend with bands including Muse, Razorlight and Gnarls Barkley.

The virtual party will mirror BBC Radio 1's real-world, One Big Weekend event, being held in Dundee from 12 May.

Radio 1 plans to use the island to debut new bands over the next year."

(Via BBC News.)

Another article about that event (Via Wonderland).

.. the whole virtual world business is getting serious .. those Second Life developers put some fascinating, extendable technology in place .. I still haven't tried out Second Life yet .. I probably should ..

Posted by mneuhaus at 12:03 PM | Permalink

Sun Grid: "Sun is changing the very nature of utility computing with the new Sun Grid utility offerings, enabling you to purchase computing and storage power as you need it, without the long-term lifecycle costs related to capital, management, depreciation, and floor space. Sun Grid radically simplifies the way you select, acquire, and use next generation IT infrastructure. "

.. sounds boring at first .. but it's not .. Sun is up to something .. check the reference guide and the press releases ..

Posted by mneuhaus at 09:51 AM | Permalink

Wie ueblich, jeden Dienstag neu, mein PodCast!

Ich werde in Zukunft meinen Blog wieder rein "technisch" halten. Fuer neue PodShows bitte Ankuendigungen auf USAHacks.com verfolgen.

For new shows (in swiss-german) please visit USAHacks.com. I wont announce new shows on this blog anymore. I try to keep different things separated again. It's getting confusing otherwise ;-)

Posted by mneuhaus at 11:34 PM | Permalink

My PodShow #5 is ready for listening. Die fuenfte PodCast-Sendungen ist auf meiner neuer Site zum Abhoeren bereit: http://www.usahacks.com.

Posted by mneuhaus at 01:08 AM | Permalink

Number 4 is recorded :-) .. a perfect time to move my PodCast to a separate web-site. You will find the all my PodCasts including the new one on http://www.usahacks.com.

Hurra, meine PodCast-Sendungen haben eine eigene Seite gekriegt: http://www.usahacks.com.

Posted by mneuhaus at 11:33 PM | Permalink

Tuesday, "Zischtig", time for another PodCast .. "Aes isch ziit fuer aen neuae PodCast". Show-notes / links to this PodCast will be available on my new web-site .. stay tuned for further announcements.

Posted by mneuhaus at 12:39 AM | Permalink

..uuufff.. technical difficulties and not enough sleep .. not the best prerequisites for a show .. but here it is, my second PodCast .. and of course, again, in "Schwizer-Duetsch".

Music played:
Matthew Ebel
Adrina Thorpe

Posted by mneuhaus at 10:23 PM | Permalink

.. finally I did it, I just recorded my first PodCast .. the PodCast is in "Swiss-German", sorry, no English-version .. it's about living in the USA .. but nothing too political :-) .. just daily stuff, daily tips .. stuff for my family and friends back in Switzerland.

A few links to the show:
Ann Arbor Art Fair
NASA - Return to Flight
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Brick - Amanda Mason and Steve Cole
Kelly Clarkson / Eagles Mashup by Aggro1

Posted by mneuhaus at 12:36 AM | Permalink

.. don't know if that will fly ..

HonorTags, as proposed by Dan Gillmor, should help readers find content they can trust, and help journalists, bloggers, podcasters and other creators build that trust within their communities. As a creator, you can tag the postings on your own blog or other site to indicate your intentions.

Posted by mneuhaus at 09:22 AM | Permalink

Apple has posted a tutorial on how to create podcasts.

Posted by mneuhaus at 12:55 PM | Permalink

The Freesound Project:

Based on technology from MTG, the Freesound Project looks like an intriguing source for podcasters and others:

The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, … released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. The Freesound Project provides new and interesting ways of accessing these samples, allowing users to

* browse the sounds in new ways using keywords, a ‘sounds-like’ type of browsing and more
* up and download sounds to and from the database, under the same creative commons license
* interact with fellow sound-artists!

We also aim to create an open database of sounds that can also be used for scientific research. Many audio research institutions have trouble finding correctly licensed audio to test their algorithms. Many have voiced this problem, but so far there hasn’t been a solution.

(Via Blogarithms.)

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