Eric Paul Snowden is an artist and designer living in Brooklyn
Posts filed under Tech
11/03/2009
The 4G Connected Car Prototype
Today Alcatel-Lucent and QNX announced the 4G connected car prototype in New York. As part of the NG Connect program (an ecosystem built around 4G connectivity) Atlantic Records was proud to create a version of our award winning Fanbase platform for the music fan on the road. The car contains 4 internet connected screens allowing [...]
11/01/2009
Adobe MAX Award nomination and conference participation
Last month, I attended the 2009 Adobe Max conference and wanted to share a few exciting developments at Atlantic Records in conjunction with Adobe and the Flash platform. We were nominated for a Max Award and showcased two new products, one for connected TVs and set top boxes and another for the connected car. Below [...]
10/15/2009
Designing iPhone apps using Adobe Flash CS5 and AIR
Arguably the biggest announcement from Adobe’s MAX conference last week was the (future) ability to create iPhone applications using Flash CS5. There were several sessions that materialized shortly after the announcement, but this session by Arno Gourdol was by far the most useful and practical. Check out the video below.
09/28/2009
Vote for Fanbase Mobile!
At Atlantic we have been working on a project called Fanbase for the last 18 months. Fanbase is a suite of applications that collect content about musicians from all over the web into a single spot that can be viewed on computers, phones and other devices. Earlier this year we won a Webby award, a [...]
09/28/2009
Dissecting the iTunes LP
On September 10th, Apple launched the iTunes LP – a new music format that they hope will be the digital replacement for vinyl album packaging. The format is a single DRM free package with .mp3 files for music. Below is an example of the how the Bob Dylan package appears in iTunes post download. The [...]
09/12/2009
2009 Mobile Excellence Awards – Finalist
Fanbase Mobile is now a finalist for the 2009 Mobile Excellence Awards. We’ve been included in the Best Adapted or Companion Program category along with DirectTV and Zannel. Congrats to our partners at Agency.net who built the Flash Lite app for us. Check out our nomination here.
09/11/2009
Four major Facebook Upgrades
Over the last 24 hours Facebook has made four important announcements. Not shy about going head to head with Apple’s music announcements (or Twitter) they announced Facebook Lite, @replies, a Facebook Desktop Notifier for Mac and Tornado an open source framework for real-time web services. Facebook Lite Facebook Lite launched in the US and India, [...]
09/07/2009
New Facebook Badges
Over the past year or so Facebook has slowly been opening up more and more of their platform, making baby steps towards allowing all of a users data to be used on other websites. Earlier this week they opened up a little more, but this time releasing badges for the non-developer community. For personal accounts [...]
08/21/2009
The CD case as musical instrument
A pretty interesting marketing idea from musician Moldover, a San Francisco based artist who has made his CD case just as desirable as the music itself. Using knowledge of custom circuits, he made the case for his CD into a crude theremin. Check out the YouTube video below.
08/18/2009
Personas – How does the internet see you?
Personas is an amazing web app (with a Flex front end) that scours the internet for information based on a person’s name and builds a profile of how they are perceived online through natural language search. Since the application has no idea how to separate the list of people who share your name, it gives [...]
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