TOKI WOKI. 

I just found that, while tidy­ing up.

I remem­ber pick­ing it up in the streets of Ethiopia… Lovely.

I wanted to do this for quite some time: a place that logs tracks I lis­ten to.

Intro­duc­ing TWPlaylist! Thanks to Twit­ter and a Winamp Plu­gin, all tracks that I lis­ten to (at work) are stored on a dummy account (if you know a plu­gin that does the same for iTunes, please let me know). And to keep things nice and smooth, I set up a quick page that pulls this data and dis­plays it thanks to some AJAX magic… Tracks link to a Discogs search page to find more about them.

As you can read the project page’s bot­tom, every­thing I wrote is open­source. HTML, CSS and JS ; help your­self. Noth­ing too fancy, but it could pre­vent you from wast­ing time… By the way, the code should be self-explanatory, but if it’s not I can help.

You will prob­a­bly notice the some tracks’ data look weird, in fact the Winamp plu­gin chokes on spe­cial char­ac­ters such as “&” and accented let­ters… I hope this gets fixed one day.

I’ve never been a big fan of Twit­ter as I think most user don’t use it the way it should be used, for exam­ple by hav­ing pri­vate dis­cus­sions or retweet­ing too much. How­ever it’s a pretty inter­est­ing plat­form for exper­i­men­ta­tion and art projects. What do you think?

[Sept. 2011 Update] I “donated” the twplaylist Twit­ter account to a char­ity cam­paign, so I moved the account archives to twplaylist_bckp.

Big news.

Boks is run­ning for Best RIA of 2009 on Insid­e­RIA, please vote for it!

The top apps will be pre­sented at Adobe MAX 2009… Need­less to say I’d be delighted to be a part of it. Of course this is going to be hard, as the com­peti­tors are tough ones but hey, let’s try!

Update: I’ve updated the app with a shame­less call-to-action but­ton. Damn, I’m weak.

Hey there reader! I’ve had this blog for more than a year now, and I have to say I’m pretty happy with it, but I’m won­der­ing about you…

Who are you? What are you doing here? Look­ing for some­thing? Found it?

I set up a quick sur­vey with ques­tions mainly about what you want. So if you’re kind enough: fill it! It might not be vis­i­ble in your feed reader ; if so: jump over to the site!

Thanks, buddy.