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I’m coming down off a one-hour radio interview after a fast 6 mile run, legs are burning and I’m listening to the Betahouse In Abscentia Mix. I was at the Betahouse one year anniversary party last Friday but it was early, before it got sardine-like. I had drinks with Stowe Boyd before heading to the ‘Hause. Stowe and I worked together at Corante and hadn’t seen him in a long time. Corante was the first blog network back circa 2000, years before Denton and Calacanis got into the game, just sayin’. Have you seen Jason’s Mahalo? Fascinating! (In a Shel Israel kind of way, watch the video.)
High points: Finetune DJ Matt Mascolo was manning the decks. If I could stream his brain into my playlist, I’d be all set. Its like if RadioParadise mashed up with Soma.fm. Looks like he’s back. The fact that Matt played Burial by Archangel is just too much. Speaking of Soma, remember Swedish Egil?
Last week I wrote about Fluidapp which I used tonight to create a standalone Firefox application to play the In Abscentia Mix. Fluid is fantastic, it took me not time at all to make any web page into a FF app that’s lightweight and doesn’t get memory-slammed. It’s like Leopard/Safari “Open in Dashboard”, only better, except for a crash, but as the last remaining Powerbook user on the planet, I’ve grown accustomed to the Intel-centric world we live in now.
Go check out Muxtape, it’s going to be big. It’s what we thought Hype Machine was going to be, although I like the Hypem redesign, it’s basically over, especially sporting the Cheapflights.com banners at the top. Then again, Peaches was the top hit when I logged in tonight and the ads are more like hipster blog entries, hard to tell. Peaches is the best getnasty singer out there right now, blush and crush all the way.
Funny how the simple stuff like Muxtape beats out the complex (HypeMachine) *almost* every time.
