January 2008
68 posts
NovaTunes →
NovaTunes offers the music from a selected roster of artists. Emphasis is on full album download packs including a variety of formats (AAC, MP3, WAV), artwork etc all for one price. Users can stream the albums in full before purchasing.
Paul McGuinness Speech, MIDEM 2008 →
Transcript of the speech everyone is talking about in Cannes, as made by U2 manager Paul McGuinness. Compulsory reading for those interested in the future of the music industry.
WatchI dig this ad, reminds me of Shaolin Soccer…
IFPI's Digital Music Report 2008 →
The theme of the report this year is the duty of the ISP to help curb online piracy. Paul McGuinness sang a similar tune in his widely reported speech at MIDEM 2008. Stats of note: Digital represented 15% of global recorded music sales Mobile subscriptions rose 11% Legal track downloads rose 53% Digital recorded music revenues rose 40% to $2.9 billion
“…In the revolution that has hit music distribution, quality seems to have...”
– Paul McGuinness, U2 manager, at MIDEM 2008. Couldn’t agree more on this one, but this is a just a side remark in what is really a great speech - he really puts it out there about how to save the music industry from its current woes.
TwitDir →
A Twitter directory - Find your friends and more on Twitter!
Seesmic →
Best described as a video based Twitter with added social network integration (YouTube, Skype etc).
Marijuana Vending Machines Opening For Business in... →
To use them, you’ll need to go with a prescription in hand, get fingerprinted and get a prepaid credit card that’s loaded up with your dosage and what strain of weed you want. Yeah, no joke, the pharmacists in LA give you a choice between OG Kush and Granddaddy Purple.
“Everything in existence tends to deteriorate”
– Norberto Odebrecht
Social Edge →
Social Edge is the global online community where social entrepreneurs and other practitioners of the social benefit sector connect to network, learn, inspire and share resources.
“We greet them all with the same basic recipe for success: high standards, stiff...”
– Bill Strickland, a three-time Harvard Business School case study and a MacArthur Genius Award winner, has changed the lives of thousands of disadvantaged urban teens and welfare mothers with his world-class arts centers and career training centers. Via Social Edge.
“The businesses best equipped to capitalise on the changes in the music market...”
– David Nichols, via Where’s the Sausage?
DailyLit: Read books by email and RSS. →
DailyLit sends books in installments via e-mail or RSS. DailyLit currently offers over 400 classic public domain titles that can be subscribed to and read in their entirety for free.
MyLoki →
A new service called MyLoki provides its users with the ability to share their location anytime they connect to a Wi-Fi hotspot. This service uses Skyhooks Wi-Fi positioning technology to locate users and can transmit their locations to various platforms such as Facebook and various feed aggregators.
Rolling Stone - The Death of High Fidelity →
Excellent feature from Rolling Stone discussing how, in the age of MP3s, recording sound quality is worse than ever.
the consultancy →
the consultancy is an Auckland based provider of specialist services to those involved in property as owners, users, buyers, sellers, investors and developers. Principal is Nigel Fletcher.
Leo wiki →
Leo is a scriptable outliner and programmer’s IDE written in Python
FreeMind →
FreeMind is an open source mind-mapping application written in Java.
XAMPP →
XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use - just download, extract and start.
“‘Cause we all just wanna be big rockstars and
Live in hilltop houses...”
– Nickelback, lyrics from Rockstar.
“In a sense, there are only five computers on earth - Google, Yahoo, Microsoft,...”
– Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo Research Chief, from BusinessWeek.
