Saturday I went to visit a meet-up of Project Roomware:
The Roomware Project is an open-source framework for interactive spaces. It allows developers of multiple origins to enhance any venue or event using technologies such as BlueTooth and RFID.
“Roomware” is an application running in a defined space. For instance: linking people’s photographs to the screens of a club, sharing musical tastes with the DJ, finding other interesting people on your mobile phone, a photo booth activated by the entry tickets of two people, etc.
That’s all pretty awesome. On top of that, it’s free software, done by nice people and they even do fun geek stuff such as playing with glasses that track your motion…
I signed up at Last.fm in 2005. I never really used it a lot. Until recently, when I got slightly bored by soma.fm (still great though!). I found out Last.fm is streaming tons of music. A bit like pandora.com, but way better. And it seems they have everything, ranging from Aphex Twin, to the Beatles, your local punk band, Ravi Shankar, Stockhausen, anything.
It can give you recommendations, or you listen to a tag radio (try gypsy, 303, amsterdam, whatever). You can click “love” if you like something and “ban” is even more useful. It’s especially nice to tune into your friends’ radios. Feel free to tune into mine.
There’s even a client for my Nokia N810. Now we just need free wireless everywhere…
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