Learning and playing a musical instrument is one thing, having access to one or carrying one around so that you can play it anytime anywhere is another thing, especially when the instrument you learnt is a heavy/bulky one.
Once applications live in the cloud, the key to success will be harnessing network effects so that those applications literally get better the more people use them … Today we see that applications are being driven by sensors, not just by people typing on keyboards. They are becoming platforms for collective action, not just collective intelligence. — extracted from Webcast: Web Squared page
Was scanning an article “Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On” written by Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle for the recent web2.0 summit, and I was attracted by the Smule’s Ocarina application for iPhone. Perhaps I’m losing touch with some of the latest technological advancements without owning the phone myself, but it appears that music players can carry a synthesiser that can emulate their favourite musical instrument while moving. How conveneient (: (of cos here assumed you owned an iPhone). Check out the video below, AND do read O’Reilly and Battelle’s article to get a glimpse of the world we’re advancing into, if we are not already into it (:
