Compiled by JOHN COLLINS

The soundtrack of your life

The Soundtracking app was launched at South by Southwest Interactive this week and could prove to be the essential music discovery tool.

With an interface similar to photo sharing app Instagram, Soundtracking allows you to tag songs – whether playing on your iPod or something you’ve just heard on the radio – and share them with your followers.

You can listen to previews of songs tagged by those you follow with links to iTunes to buy them. Simple and clever, it’s perfect for music lovers pressed for time.

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Kinect self awareness hack

College Humour has some fun with the numerous videos of hacks of Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect device with this video of a geek who gives his “self awareness”. Cue Terminator- style machine rebellion which predictably ends with the Kinect hacking into the US nuclear arsenal and destroying the world.

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Drinking at work in Silicon Valley

Businessweekhighlights the fact that Mad Men-style drinking at the office is becoming common in Silicon Valley's start-ups, where Friday afternoon beer kegs are a common sight.

While ad agencies in the 1960s were alcohol-soaked at all hours of the day, the article points out the practice reflects the long hours worked at start-ups. And of course some companies have an iPad app to tell you how much you have drunk.

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