A Taste of What’s to Come..and what’s not quite there yet

Mashable tell me that Coldplay will stream a live concert “today at 4 p.m. ET” on YouTune, as part of the American Express Unstaged performance series.

Viewers will be able to watch a live performance (from Madrid), and be able switch between different camera view, and take part in a global live chat. We’ll actually be our own directors.

What Time is it Mr Wolf?

Now for me, the challenge is to decode the exact timing. The Mashables piece reveals–fleetingly–that it’s dated October 26. After a moment, the date changes to “11 hours ago”. So you have to be alert to know that “today” is October 26.

As I’m in Indochina time, I need to go find a world time zones site. Grabbed TimeandDate.com, World Time Converter page.. Entered October 26 16:00…decided that “ET” is Eastern Standard Time …and found the concert happened at about 3:00 a.m. this morning. Missed it already.
Anyway, you can still check out the trailer for the concert (it’s v short):

And you can take your chances with the website for the event. Pretty much a dog’s breakfast site to my way of thinking. My humble internet connection is still trying to load the video; while the flash on the righthand side slowly drives one insane. Maybe you’ll have better luck. For me it’s a “flash flood” (sorry).

Swatch Internet Time

Maybe there’s an easier way to do these global times. Certainly, I think we should be away with ‘today’ and ‘tomorrow’ on global blogs. Too bad that Swatch’s internet time never really took off .  A quick google leads me to the Internet Time on the Official Swatch Website. It tells me about the concept but not what time it is!

If I click on What Beat is It?, the URL promises an iTime Converter (did Apple let that slip past?). Unfortunately the page wants my mobile phone number and email address and offers a newsletter…not the time.

Seems Swatch Internet Time may be stopped. The beat is gone?

World time

Is there an app, or a plugin, that would translate times into users’ local time zones? Or allow such a conversion to be seen on mouse-over perhaps?

There should be. Anyway this kept my mind off the approaching, fabled, Bangkok floods, which have not yet (14:15 Indochina Time) reached where I live.

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