My friend Manuel has entered the Pillows 20th anniversary Youtube contest. Basically they have to make a cover to one of their songs and the winner will be picked based on Views. So far based on what I’ve seen they have the best video. Good Luck Elmmo hope you win and get to go to Japan!
Happy 4th of July
Today I spoke with 3 musicians from Congo, and they told me that we take all that we have for granted here in the US. We live in wonderland. I must say that after that conversation they really opened my eyes to how blessed we really are. Everyone have a Happy 4th of July Weekend
Ever since I came across the Youtube Edu site I’ve been watching a whole lot of programming videos and have picked up a whole bunch of concepts that I would have never learned on my own. Personally I see this as a very good resource to those who really want to learn the concepts of software engineering as well to those seasoned programmers that just need to refresh and get a quick reference to some concept of some kind.
Beginning Programming in Java :
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=84A56BC7F4A1F852
Just recently I’ve ran across the Educational side of Youtube, more specifically the section that includes various videos from many well known universities. Today I sat down and watched through a few beginner programming courses, from the Stanford University Computer Sciences department, and beginner courses in Electronics Engineering. This is mind blowing and amazing all at once because most of these videos were recorded inside of the classroom of that University and if you can dig deep enough in the Universities website you can probably get a hold of other classroom handouts and other useful materials from that specific class. I won’t even speak of the MIT Open Course website because that alone is a gold mine of education. In any case I’m going to be cancelling all my dates and appointments and hide myself away from a few months while I sit and go through these classes online for free.
The past few weeks has had some pretty interesting news going on in the blogosphere or at least at Apple. I’m not fanboy yet, I’d consider myself being right on the fence but leaning towards the apple side of things for various reasons. In anycase I actually sat in front of my computer refreshing my browser watching the iPone 3.0 operating system announcement. In the beginning I was a little excited because there are a whole bunch of additions to the OS that is going to make the iPhone yet more functional and what not. Then when I thought of it I noticed that a good deal of those features have already existed on a jail broken iPhone. Having jail broken my iPhone nearly about a month ago I realize that maybe even with the new additions to the operating system that will be released sometime in the summer I may find myself reluctant to upgrade my firmware until its mandatory to do so.
By the way I’ve also been playing around with the Qik app for the iPhone which is pretty awesome because it enables you to stream a live video feed onto the net and from there upload onto Seesmic, Youtube and a few other services.