muesli's Blog

If you're still visiting this blog and wondering why it's been oh so quiet as of lately... well, things have changed, haven't they? Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus came around the corner and blogs were suddenly too much hassle to maintain and keep uptodate. To put it technically: Blogs are pull-mode, social networks are push-mode.

Twitter trained me like a little monkey, so I'll keep it brief: The awesome Tomahawk Player is what I'm up to. It's a new kind of music player, allowing you to socially interact with your friends and (existing) social graphs, as well as turning the "Web 2.0" in media players up a notch. It leverages the wonderful services of YouTube, Spotify, Google, Grooveshark, Last.fm, Echonest, OwnCloud, Ampache, SoundCloud, Official.fm, Ex.fm, Rdio, Jabber, Twitter (to name just a few) to create a new listening experience which breaks existing boundaries. Open Spotify playlists and play it from your friend's music library, YouTube or one of many other services. Why not import the top tracks for a Last.fm tag and have the songs play from Spotify? It's up to you. Share your favourite tracks and playlists directly with your friends and listen to theirs. Coming to a system near you, whether that is running Linux, Windows or OS X.

"Tomahawk gives us a look into the future of music players, and this future looks bright!" - hypebot.com
"... groundbreaking open source media player" - Evolver.fm
"The social media player of tomorrow" - ZDnet

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The first few days in London have passed pretty quickly and I'm really enjoying my life over here. The city is great so far, even though I only managed to visit a few places yet. I'm planning to go to some of the tourist attractions this weekend, when Mone will be joining me. Even cooler than "just living in London" is the great job I got. All the guys working at Last.fm are not only colleagues, but also friends you're working with on one project. That's rather self-motivating and I really enjoy my job for the first time since months or even years. Tonight we'll go to some pub around the corner, having some drinks and smalltalk. Looking forward to get a little drunk

Oh, btw: thanks to Felix for cooking a great meal for all of us. Serving food for seven people obviously ain't that easy

Keep on hacking,
muesli

I finally left Germany - for the better or the worse... we'll see.

Anyway, I'm now living in London and besides that I really do miss everyone already, I feel great. Thanks to David, who drove me to the Airport Munich, thanks to my parents for meeting me there and saying "Goodbye" and thanks to EasyJet for slightly delaying the flight, so I could enjoy my Whopper meal in a relaxed fashion.

Right now, I'm sitting in the Last.fm office, my new employer over here, watching some german TV-streams and preparing to head to the bed - err - couch, soon. Since London also means 24/7 shopping (which I really do like, did I mention that before? *g*), I was able to get some drinks and snacks for the night. On my way to the store I noticed a few empty flats, which are just around the corner, and are currently available to rent. The rental fees are scary, though. 250 Euros for a one-bedroom apartment. Great deal, hm? If I were talking about the monthly fee, sure. But I'm talking about friggin' WEEKLY fees. Let's hope I'm able to find something decent and not exactly that pricy.

In other news, the pope died. I'm honestly glad and happy he finally did. Although I can't stand the/any church, I always respected him as a person. I wish he would have been able to quit his "job" a lot earlier, so he would have had a chance to finish his life in a way he deserved it. It would really scare me to know that tens-of-thousands-of-people are standing in front of my house just waiting for me to die or that I would have to work and furfill my duty until the very last day of my life has arrived - no matter how exhausting it is. Just imagine you're that old, weak and sick and people still treat you like a fucking pop(e)star, not giving you the chance to have at least a few quiet and peaceful years at the end of your life.

Rest in peace - you are finally able to.

...muesli

Just a short "hello" from the Audioscrobbler / last.fm headquarters.

What can I say... really cool guys working here! I had quite some fun today and a rather relaxed and really constructive job interview. The developers here are so full of good ideas and everyone's just motivated and keeping things going. That's pretty much exactly what I was looking for Now we only need to agree on my salary and I'll keep moving to London as soon as possible.

Besides that: impressive city. I always hated the term "melting-pot", but here it really is the case. If you keep strolling down the streets, you will meet all kind of people: walking through some kind of turkish bazaar the one minute, suddenly being surrounded by asian restraurants in the next. I will upload some photos, when I'm back home (tomorrow morning already, actually).

Oh, and a special thanks to the single coolest person on this planet. Sometimes I'd just be and feel lost without you. Thanks.

...muesli