After seeing Tweekly.fm in action, @jherskowitz, decided to make a similar service, but for songs. It uses Yahoo Pipes to do its work.
What’s great about it, is that you can pull the data in various forms, like RSS or PHP. As you can see on jherskowitz blog, he embedded it and uses Streampad to play the songs right from his blog.
Not exactly like Tweekly.fm for songs, but very similar! Enjoy!
As I’m nearing the end of February, I decided to think about some goals I have related to my web projects. Considering that I am studying full-time, I don’t really have the time or resources to invest in large-ish projects (2 or 3 in my head). So instead, I am going to focus on creating simple web services (will mostly be mashups) that *I* would like to use. I am working on the basis of “If I like it, then someone else would”. I don’t need to worry about money just yet. 
Considering that I am going to create several small projects, I am going to try and start a proper “shotbeak” brand so that my services become easily recognisable. In other words all services will be hosted on shotbeak.com and will contain a logo to show it is a “shotbeak” project. Would be quite interesting to see if it gains traction.
I’ve made 2 projects this year so far:
Tweekly.fm - A service that gathers your weekly last.fm data and sends it as a tweet every week.
Muse Lyrics - If you are a fan of the band Muse and have Facebook, you can add this application to add any lyric/line from any Muse song onto your Facebook profile.
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I want make at LEAST 2 more mashups/web projects this year. I can see that one of them will include twitter integration. I love using twitter as part of a mashup because it serves as a great backbone to “disperse” data.
I saw this very interesting quote on Singularity Hub, trying to get some more information on Kevin Kelly’s “next 5000 days of the web” TED talk.
“We can say that the internet was first a database of computers, then a database of web pages, and now it is a database of individual pieces or granules of information.”
I agree completely.
A great example of the 3rd and current stage of the internet is the excistence of mashups. Using the “individual pieces or granules of information” that are scattered across the web, we collect them and organise it into something useful.
I just love the potential that exists with all these data. So much can be achieved!
I am going to start working on a new “personal” mashup soon. It is way more ambitious than something I’ve done before, so “personal” means it is a scaled-down version of the final idea. Hopefully it gets picked up and gets angel investing or something.
I forgot to mention I took down lolstupids this past week. It wasn’t doing particularly well. There was 1 quote that came in it, that I didn’t make. It was just leeching money. I still like the idea and somehow in the future it could take off.
I just have to think of a proper way to do it. I’m thinking of perhaps mashing it up with some service so that it gets more traffic and incentive for its use. *goes in search for mashup opportunity*.
So, I’ve been blogging now for 2 years. On 9 January 2007 I created this blog (which then resided on shotbeakgames.za.net) to detail my blabberings on indie game development. 2007 was full of that. I was heavily into indie game development. 2008 was the year I started university and thus I neglected my game dev and found a new passion, web development. Most of 2008′s blogging was about not blogging.
If you read my 1st post many of the ideas I had regarding indie game dev holds true to web development too in this age.
I was talking about how you get two types of developers. Those who do market research and develop a massive money munching website and people like me who at the moment just develop what I want. I made Roach Toaster years back because it was a game I wanted to play. I made TWAT (a last.fm and twitter mashup), because it is something I want.
And the last lines still hold true. Why should I cater for an audience when I can create my own?
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So, what do I plan to do in 2009? I’m loving the opportunity that mashups provide. You create an application/service that has an instant userbase. It provides functionality. So 2009 will probably be year for more mashups from my side.
On the music side, I still want to know why I’m getting so much hits for my song Crag from Baidu… If only I knew Chinese and could get into Baidu. >_<