We couldn’t really take this event seriously, could we?
No matter if you have a crush on someone or Valentine is just like any other day for you: pick one of the famous tunes in the link, watch karaoke lyrics provided, sing over it and share it onto Facebook.
In case you don’t find yourself comfortable with them, record your own and remember to tag it with valentine2011 and it will appear in the Valentine’s Day page too!
Last Saturday at the Hack Italy in Milan hordes of Italian developers have gathered up and given 12 hours time to hack a group of web apps, namely Nokia OVI maps, Microsoft, Audiobox.fm, Play.me, Spreaker and Beintoo.
Our team with CTO Giovanni Cappellotto and friend Francesco Tartaggia (developer at H-Umus) built Thounds Map by hacking the OVI maps and Nokia just loved it so much they assigned us the first prize, a stunning N8 device.
Thounds Map does exactly what it’s in the name, it geolocalizes and streams music sketches on the atlas, and you can have a visual impact of where there is more music inspiration around you:
Thounds Map: http://maps.thounds.com
Links:
Hack Italy: http://hackitaly.org
Thounds: http://thounds.com
Have you ever wanted to hack Thounds music?
Don’t miss the chance of being at the first Hack Italy event then, running in Milan on the 5th February 2011.
The event is sponsored by Microsoft, Nokia, Dada, 3Scale, Git Enterprise and Top-Ix and will give developers a unique opportunity to hack Italian apps in a 12h challenge.
The challenge:
A group of apps offer their API’s to deliver hacks and mashups (beside Thounds this will include Play.me, Microsoft, audiobox.fm, MusiXmatch, Spreaker, OVI Maps by Nokia, etc)
Ideas for your hack:
If you don’t know where to begin, we at Thounds would appreciate some of the following:
Prize:
The best Thounds hack wins an HTC Desire Z
Guidelines:
Please read the documentation on http://hackitaly.pbworks.com/w/page/35355527/API
Hack Italy information:
Hack Italy at the Blend Tower, Piazza IV Novembre, 7 – Milan.
Saturday 5th February 2011 – Begins at 8:30am.
http://hackitaly.org/
Registration is free
Thounds
http://thounds.com/
Discover all the music on Thounds by just tuning in our new radio on http://thounds.fm!
Thounds radio is the first app since our public API release, it is a radio tuner with genre tags instead of frequencies, it’s never been easier to listen to original Hip Hop beats, Heavy Metal riffs, acoustic sessions and rock melodies.
Hurry up, you have three extra days to win the contest by Think Tank and enter the compilation!
All you have to do is playing your own music on a given track (you can choose between Tao and The Mirrors stems available here) and get as many “likes” as possible.
The top three most liked thounds will get to the final stageand submitted to the jury lined up by the Think Tank and Thounds panels.
Join the Think Tank contest now!
http://thounds.com/thinktank
The compilation introduces you to 11 tracks: one from the Think Tank contest and the other ten have already been selected by a panel artists Curt Smith (Tears for fears), Max Casacci (Subsonica), Jimmy Destri (Blondie), Alberto Ferrari (Verdena), Roger O’Donnell (The Cure), Luca Bergia (Marlene Kuntz), Morgan Fisher (Mott the Hoople), …
Two months ago we browsed through the Entertainment category in the Facebook app gallery, and found too many apps so we restricted search by keyword “music” to a reasonable 200 matches.
Surprising how none of this lot was about composing and creating music at all, so we requested a few friends for a draft from our API, we’ve been submitted a great layout idea (thank you Luca) and then we’ve been busy developing until last weekend.
YUIO is a simple sequencer and sampler, you will be able to record short sounds (or just use the default beats) to create boom box tunes to share.
Play with YUIO now, the first app on Facebook that let you compose music!
http://apps.facebook.com/thounds
If you are still wondering what’s in the name YUIO just look down under your fingertips and press…
Here is a short tutorial:
A few days ago we asked our community to record their own very special thound for the anniversary of John Lennon birthday, and we have then received so many good tunes we want to share.
This is a selection of our favourite submissions so far :
Omaoi (Italy) – For John: Duetto
Bon Yuki (Japan) – happy birthday john
Omaoi (Italy) – for John: JEALOUS GUY unplugged
Yuriy Tymochko (Ukraine) – 70 is not a limit, John
Kaworu Fu-jin (Japan) – He is alive in the mind
Matte Green (Italy) – For John from another john..lee..
Kaworu Fu-jin (Japan) – John Lennon/imagine 70birthday
Kroman Celik (Italy) – I love John Lennon – imagine
Giuseppe Antonio Mazza (Italy) – A penny for Heaven…rip John.
Francesco Fraioli (Italy) – instant karma – happy birthday John
Nicolò ßeta (Italy) – Working Class Hero
dokidokidaisaku (Japan) – 宇宙をひとまたぎ
Want to add yours? Never too late, just reply to this with the page link of the thound you recorded.
We just opened a new section on thounds.com: Thounds Artists!
Showing all musicians we’ve been meeting, you can hear what they think about music collaborations and Thounds itself.
Be sure to check this new section out, there are more to come and some artists played some thound for you too.
For the Italian speaking, you will find an interview on the new issue of Wired Italy, go and grab a copy now!
Picture: Emanuele Cremaschi
Update: You can read it on a PDF here
We are happy to announce a new contest which is giving free Thounds t-shirts… want one?
Just follow the simple rules to win your own tee:
1. Be our fan on Facebook
2. And our follower on Twitter
And now if you are already a thounder:
3. Record 10 (ten) new thounds and set them to public view
Otherwise if you are not yet:
3. Connect to Thounds from your Facebook account
and in this case we will draw 5 t-shirts every day
Until Monday 6th September 2010
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