7 Top Podcasts

Hello here is a list of some top podcasts:
1. Johnnie Moore (Great for marketing related interviews)

2. TED (podcasts on inspiration subjects such as 'How the mind works' and 'Evolutions Genius'

3. Aurgasm (new music)

4. The Guardian (top quality podcasts on a wide range of subjects from culture, news, media)

5. Boing Boing - Get illuminated (interviews with creative people)

6. Spout (interesting movie reviews)

7. AskaNinja (Send your questions to the Ninja)

Ricky Gervais

Multi-award-winning writer/comedian Ricky Gervais has done some pretty popular podcasts. In fact, 'The Ricky Gervais Show' podcasts were so popular, they entered the Guniness Book of World Records as the most downloaded.

Find out more about Ricky's podcasting exploits, here.

Podcasting

Some notes from Wikipedia's defintition of Podcasting:

Podcasting's initial appeal was to allow individuals to distribute their own "radio shows," but the system quickly became used in a wide variety of other ways, including distribution of school lessons, official and unofficial audio tours of museums, conference meeting alerts and updates, and by police departments to distribute public safety messages.

Make your own Semacode

To make your own Semacode (or 2D Barcode as they are also known), take a look at the service delivered by Shotcode. Have a go, make your own offline web link and download the Shotcode application to your phone to enable you to read shotcodes too.

Here's one we've created for the PAA site.

What do people really do with their mobile?

Research from Nokia shows that the mobile is the indispensable gadget. 94% of people intend to have one in the future, and one in five say that they would prefer to lose their wedding ring. A mobile is not all about talk:

• 73% don't wear a watch or have a separate alarm clock
• 67% would like the mobile to be their mp3 player
• 68% would like to be able to control household appliances with their mobile

Having always gained hero points on all camping holidays with the torch mode of my K750i. I was wondering what other unusual things make a mobile the swiss army knife of gadgets. I really expected to find a plethora of surprises, but only cooking an egg was really unexpected.

Suggestions welcome, the list needs to made....

More interesting things you can do with mobile

1. According to Sony Ericsson, one of the most popular uses for a phone when not making calls, is using the phone as a torch. For extra power, use your camera's flash to light up a dark space.

2. Cooking with your mobile

3. Compare prices on your mobile - with this service you can check a price of a book on Amazon when you're in a bookstore.

4. Wine Memory Jogger, a great little idea for using Flickr to remember the wines you had at a party.

Challenge inspiration: Sound Gardens

This project enables people to create virtual 'sound gardens'. Using a WiFi enabled mobile device (PDA, laptop, mobile phone), people can "plant" sounds within a city. These plants are then mapped onto the coordinates of a physical location. You can wander through these virtual sound gardens, listening to the different audio tracks, by wearing headphones connected to a connected to a WiFi enabled device.

Challenge Inspiration: Yellow Arrow Project

The Yellow Arrow project, allows you to link personal messages to physical locations by using yellow sticky arrows (which you can order from the site). Your personal messages are then permanently linked to that place. It's a really nice way of publishing your journeys, for other people to discover.

Challenge inspiration: Twitter

You may have heard about Twitter. It's a sort of nano blog, where you can let your friends (& the world what you're doing right then and there). Think of it as a little digital postcard to the people in your network. You can twitter via the web, IM or mobile.

Take a look at twittervision.com for a view on what the world is doing right now. There is also a version for mobile, which is quite

Mobile inspiration: ZoneTag

Take a look at ZoneTag, a service from Yahoo Research. The service allows you to automatically add location tags to pictures that you upload to Flickr.

Mobile inspiration: Semacode

What are semacodes ? Wikipedia says:

a URL can be converted into a type of barcode resembling a crossword puzzle, which is called a “tag”. Tags can be quickly captured with a mobile phone’s camera and decoded to obtain a Web site address. This address can then be accessed via the phone’s web browser

Developed here in the UK they're like barcodes for mobiles phones. Nike is already using them in Japan where they are far more well known. You basically take a picture of the code and this immediately stores the book mark and takes you to a mobile version of the site.

Good post about it on crackunit

Find out more here

Here’s how it’s been put to use

Mobile inspiration: Shazam

Take a look at Shazam. If you're ever out and about, hear a good track but don't know what it is, you can dial 2580 (easy to remember because it's the number down the middle of your phone) and Shazam will text you with the track title and artist. Nice service. (You never know when it might come in handy...)

Mobile inspiration: Remember the Milk

Remember the Milk is a lovely 'to do' list application that makes organising easy & fun. This is based online with nice features such as sharing tasks with other people, a module for your Netvibes page and adding tasks to your Google Calendar. And, you can also access it via your mobile, which is just great for all those times you're out & about.

Take a look, have a play and let us know what you think about it.

Mobile inspiration: Scanr

Scanr is great little service where you can turn your camera phone into a scanner, copier or fax machine. It's particularly handy for recording whiteboard or flip chart notes and business card details.

Mobile inspiration: WidSets

Widsets is great little application that enables you to download some of the best mobile widgets to your phone. Some top widgets include BBC News, Flickr and Wikipedia.

Mobile inspiration: Shozu

Take a look at Shozu. It makes sharing pictures or video clip easier by enabling you to upload them to a website (such as Flickr) in just one click too.

Have a play around and let us know you what you think - you can always add a comment to this post.