Well, I’ve been doing some African drumming classes recently…..The drum we use is the Djembe. I have a bad habit of calling it a bongo drum – which a djembe is not.
African drumming is something that I’ve been wanting to do for a long time now. I’ve had about four or five classes so far and I’m noticing myself get better and better every week. The teacher Jeremy is pretty cool and he makes it nice and easy to follow….Turns out I’m actually going to be performing live in front of an audience next Friday….a little bit scary but cool.
Anyway, if you’re like me and you’ve always thought you wanted to play drums, I highly recommend checking it out.
If you’re in the Melbourne area, you can go here to find some classes near you http://www.africandrumming.com.au
Oh yeah!
In the last few days, I’ve been hearing some interesting rumours on the social media scene.
The consensus is that Google are working on something behind the scenes that appears to be a direct competitor to Facebook. Supposedly entitled “Google Me”, it’s not entirely surprising that Google are rumoured to be doing this. Probably somewhat taken aback by the rampant growth and traffic that Facebook has been enjoying recently, it would seem that Google need something to prevent Facebook becoming too strong a competitor. They need to compete with Facebook on a level playing field. There’s no doubt about it that whilst Google are the King of Search, Facebook is the King of social media and social media is taking the web world by storm.
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Just read a fantastic hypothetical article over at techcrunch. It’s a futuristic look at how various mobile web technologies could potentially integrate with each other to provide a seamless user experience on the mobile web via smartphone enabled devices.
I particularly like the notion of Geofences. These are effectively imaginary borders that are created with Geolocation data points. For example, you could be in one particular area such as the city that has a Geofence around it. Inside this Geofence, certain rules apply to your mobile profile. I could have programmed my mobile to provide me directions to the closest Chinese restaurants when I am in the city because that is what I like to eat when I am there. However as soon as I leave the city Geofence, and enter a different Geofence, a different set of rules apply. I could have programmed my mobile information so when I leave the city and am driving down the highway, my mobile profile will be locating McDonalds restaurants that are in my immediate vicinity on the highway.
Anyhow, for the full article, you can view it here on techcrunch
There has been a bit of a turf war growing recently. It all came head to head with the release of the Google Nexus One. Apple saw this as a direct threat to the iPhone and their business model. Needless to say, ties between the two companies have soured rapidly as of late.
It was interesting to see just before the release of the Apple iPad, Steve Jobs came out and denounced the use of Adobe Flash and categorically denied that Apple would ever support it. People were wondering why? It’s hard to deny there is large support and demand for Flash Content. Steve Jobs claims that the world is moving towards HTML 5. I do agree that this is the case, however, people are not ready to entirely ditch Flash. It is still a valid platform and integral to the web. (more…)
