Nick Cifuentes

I tend to keep this blog pumped with just marketing content, mainly social and new media updates, and the next Internet craze; however, I am putting a change of pace to things and will be using this blog also to just share snippets of my life, personal and technical. My passion for life, music, happiness and just the fact I get to wake up everyday and do what I do - I truly am lucky. Now, enough of the prelude - I am a massive music hound, both indie, rock, rap, metal, reggae, techno, house, etc…You name it - I love it. Recently, I came across this insanely well-done cover of MGMT’s “Time to Pretend.” The cover is by Sigur Rós front-man Jónsi who appeared on BBC Radio 1 and serenaded listeners with his piano ballad version of the otherwise spacey, danceable track by MGMT.

Jónsi’s versions is a sick display of talent and shows off his genius to turn a great, entertaining song into something even more worth-listening to. Take a listen below and help yourself to the full session here

Jónsi will be heading out on the road to celebrate his debut solo album - if this song is any kind of preview, I’d say grab tickets now!

Twitter CEO Evan Williams just announced that Twitter will begin a step toward individual website integration with a new platform called @anywhere. The announcement was made during Williams’ keynote speech this afternoon at SXSW.

The new integration will allow developers to plug-in to @anywhere to integrate “basic” Twitter functionality into their website without users needing to navigate away from the page - basically more value without the heavy lifting, as Twitter so kindly put it.  

So picture this, you arrive to the NewYorkTimes.com and right there on the page you will be able to follow reporters and other staff people whose Twitter name is associated with the New York Times. The Twitter blog also suggests that you will be able to tweet about a YouTube video without interrupting it.

There are more @anywhere features planned, as Twitter says the current items are “just the beginning.” This is one-step further for Twitter, who has been needing to integrate a “Facebook Connect” like move that Facebook debuted last year, and is currently dominating the field in when it comes to the idea of a social media operating system.

Most importantly however, Twitter is making this simple; where a person behind the organization can drop @anywhere with a few lines of JavaScript instantly on their website without using any difficult API language that is mostly learned before implementing. During the announcement today, Twitter said that @anywhere will be available to just initial partners at first, those include Amazon.com, YouTube, Yahoo!, bing, Msnbc.com, AdvertisingAge.com, Digg, eBay and a few more!

All future announcements on the @anywhere platform will be made from the @anywhere Twitter account.

Stay tuned for more information as it breaks!