2.0

I watched A Conversation On The Future Of Music.


Guests were Chris DeWolfe (myspace) and Edgar Bronfman (from Warner Music). Instead of the future of music industry, they spent lots of time for future strategies for both companies. They both said all the money from the business need to go to artists, users and music companies, and that’s what their companies want.

Chris said Myspace is different from iTunes or Rhapsody because Myspace’s streaming service is a great market than others, and having the online music community is very special, 2.0!!!

Edgar said Apple is doing a remarkable job, but the online music market between itunes and myspace is not even competitive. He siad if audiences care about the community or want to share with their friends, the choice will be myspace, not itunes. Itunes is “Sexy device” music stores.
20% of revenues for Warner music is from digital sources (I think it is still very low percentages), and it was only 5-6 percents a few years ago.


Also watched Launch Pad Fourth Edition :Web Meets World.

Mok Oh from EveryScape, Inc plans by 2010, his company like to build on-line views of every single cities in the world. It looks like the google street view system, but it actually lets you go to see INSIDE of a restaurant or a store, even how the interior of the restaurant looks like. They launched a beta version of a few U.S. cities, but the company plans to have the online views of everywhere in the world by next a couple years. Privacy? Hmm.. I don’t know.

Here is how Austin looks like! AMAZING!
http://www.everyscape.com/austin-tx.us.aspx