EightBitBeats - a social 8 Bit music sequencer
Created as part of the 48-hour Node Knockout programming competition, where teams of programmers were to create a web-based app in a weekend using node.js
The idea is interesting, yet not polished - with a little more work this could be a fun collaborative site, but the basics are there. You have a sequencer board, with six types of instruments. A Mega-Man sprite runs from left to right as the timer. Other participants can join in, setting up their own sequences, composing together. You can chat and interact. You can’t, though, save your compositions, and each online user can only operate one type of instrument at a time, and if you change your instrument, you lose whatever you have been working on.
The video above best demonstrates the idea, using the Streetfighter II track ‘Ken’s Theme’ as an example.
For more info about the development from a coder perspective, this post gives all the details you need.
Otherwise: http://eightbitbeats.com/
Turntable.fm to Release an iPhone App
TC reports that the company is hoping to release the app next week. It has been in testing with a few dozen people for the past few weeks, and is solid on WiFi connections, but less so over 3G.
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The Death Revealer iPhone App
To raise awareness of the traffic accidents that are happening every day in Moscow, Leo Burnett created an iPhone Augmented Reality App that revealed the injuries and accidents in the location they actually happened. This one really pulls on the heart strings, drumming home the reality of your actions if you drive unsafely.
The campaign was supported with ambient activity that drove people to download the app while out and about. In a nod to the white lines that are drawn around bodies, their faces were replaced with QR codes, splattered with blood.
Via The Ad Buzz.
