Simply happy!

Yesterday my son persuaded me to buy the Ocarina application for my iphone. It turned out to be one of the best spent seventy-nine cents ever. Ocarina is an application developed by Smule, a company created by some Stanford people. The concept is simple: turn your iphone into a flute. Or Ocarina, an ancient flute-like wind instrument, according to Wikipedia. You can then play this flute by blowing into the microphone of your iphone and tapping four ‘holes’ on your touch screen. Now this is nice. But was is really great is the fact that the Ocarina is a social application. Tap on the globe icon and you will see and hear other Ocarina players throughout the world. The globe view will highlight the source of the music. Name your Ocarina if you want listeners around the world to identify your performances. The globe is shown as a night-globe with light spots where people played the Ocarina. If you tap on a spot, you hear ocarina music that was played by someone in this place. So i listened to music from Japan, Florida, Brazil and Australia in 3 minutes. And became very happy from the fact that in all these places people spent time on this totally useless, but highly entertaining application and shared it. This concept was previously exploited by the same people in an even more silly lighter application, which consist of a lighter on your iphone screen. And that on produces bright spots on the globe the more virtual kilojoules were burnt in a specific city. Read about this one here.