I just found this here in Geralds blog
Check this out, very funny:
one example:
- Fehler
Sony BMG, one of the 3 (should we still count EMI too?) major labels plans music flatrate
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 by Michael Altendorf
according to some newspapers and blogs like this
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/3/sony_bmg_planning_subscription_service_aapl_
Sony plans a musicflatrate. The advantage of a single major label compared to napster is zero. Also a lot of other memers of the channel like Nokia try to offer flaterates for music. One advantage of the major is the bigger supplier power but one big disadvantage is the smaller product portfolio. The major already tried to offer music online stores years ago. But when the user do not know which artist is at which label this will not work. Only a holistic approach of all big vendors together could work. But a lot of players like Amazon or iTunes will compete against each others. Perhaps this announcement is only going to put pressure on iTunes because Sony threaten to go forward with other vendors but without Apple if Apple not support what the music labels want. I will still become a exciting year for the music industry. They are going to attack each other not only on horizontal but also on vertical battlefields. The advantage has the consumer in the end. If the younger generation pay money for music in future is exciting because he never paid before. There will definitely a battle between the flaterate and the advertisment model in the end and some niches in between – nobody could know this in these days when all players change their strategy and play around with every possibility
Google Sky available in Browser
Sunday, March 16th, 2008 by Michael Altendorf
I just read at slashdot that Google Sky is available in the browser now!
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/16/123259&from=rss
Here is one of the phenomenal Hubble images:
Try it out!
I changed the title
Thursday, March 13th, 2008 by Michael Altendorf
From SAP to Enterprise Web 2.0 (and into online Music Business)
I just changed the topic a bit due to the thing that i am doing nothing with opensource or virtual worlds at the moment and much more with Web 2.0 and the online music market and new online business models
Noisepollution,Trend Reznor/ Nine inch Nails and his bank account
Thursday, March 13th, 2008 by Michael Altendorf
I just saw in Silicon Alley Insider…
Trend Reznor earned $1.6 mio in the first week and sold 800000 albums….(Radiohead 1.3Mio for sure, that’s more but you have to realize that they are also the better band)
not bad! Definitely, this is one new business model but this works only for 1% of the bands and only for the bands for which the majors already paid a lot of marketing. Otherwise nobody would know that they have a new CD. Or do you know that my friends from Soabox have a new CD out soon?
4 songs and a pic: http://www.myspace.com/soapboxmusic
to pre order the cd: http://www.soapbox-online.de/ So we will see if they also earn $1.6Mio (I hope so
And not to forget The Noispollution Festival of Kindergarten friend Timo happens the last time in Odenwald in April!
http://www.myspace.com/noisepollutionfestiva
l (You should listen to Long Distance Calling)
CEBIT 2008 review
Thursday, March 6th, 2008 by Michael Altendorf
So, yesterday I was at the Cebit in Hannover. It was a long journey to Hannover and I am not sure if i will go there again next year. It was my first visit after 10 years. Yes, this was in the middle of the golden new economy hype and my company at this time were I still was in school paid the whole weekend for me. I was much more excited than yesterday. Their was only an expensive Enterprise 2.0 conference but no cool free keynotes by any IT guru. The only two people I listened to were Nick Carr and a german one with red punk hairstyle. His blog is more interesting than its bad prepared 45min lecture were he tried to connect his webcam to a video page but failed in the end. You find this here: http://www.telekom2.de/trendforum on friday Don Tapscott of Wikinomics is talking there. I think you get a podcast at this site. Nick Carr talked about the same like in his book. SaaS and Data Centers as most of us already now. But it was more interesting than the other one. So I do not have to read his book, ok, the question is now: if I really wanted to read that.
T
he rest of the day a walked across some halls with massive big TFT and LCD screens. Tried out all new touch things (screens, phones etc.) and played computer games on very big displays – The computer retailes had big booths and offered a lot of things for the reals gamer community. After 6 hours of powerpoints about every business thing you could imagine a tried the bread at the MSFT booth watched what my company shows there. The last 2 hours than I tried to find it interesting to see 100 different asian memory stick vendors. But one thing to mention: when you find the Asus EEE PC is cool – a lot of asian vendors sell some kind of UMPCs which were smaller and much cooler and I think also not so expensive as the samsung one. The Asus eee Pc has a too small keyboard and a too small display but perhaps the new one improves this so much, that you could really work with it. But for this price a good thing.
But as you could see on my other blog entries today. The innovation happens elsewhere but not at the Cebit… ok, I am more the Internet guy and not the gamer. For gamers they showed really cool things also some new business things but the real cool announcement did not happen…
more new things today: Fire Eagle and LBS information broker and the Google Contact API
Thursday, March 6th, 2008 by Michael Altendorf
With this thing you could e.g. sync Gmail contacts with your mobile phonne
http://googledataapis.blogspot.com/2008/03/3-2-1-contact-api-has-landed.html
Here is a video of fire eagle
http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2008/03/fire_eagle_launches.html
The source I found this once again: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_releases_contacts_api.php I think McManus is now No1 in Web 2.0 and Scobe and Mr Arrington and outstrip them both in 2008 in being the first who announces new cool stuff. but I can’t proof this.
Sony BMG, one of the 3 (should we still count EMI too?) major labels plans music flatrate
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 by Michael Altendorfaccording to some newspapers and blogs like this
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/3/sony_bmg_planning_subscription_service_aapl_
Sony plans a musicflatrate. The advantage of a single major label compared to napster is zero. Also a lot of other memers of the channel like Nokia try to offer flaterates for music. One advantage of the major is the bigger supplier power but one big disadvantage is the smaller product portfolio. The major already tried to offer music online stores years ago. But when the user do not know which artist is at which label this will not work. Only a holistic approach of all big vendors together could work. But a lot of players like Amazon or iTunes will compete against each others. Perhaps this announcement is only going to put pressure on iTunes because Sony threaten to go forward with other vendors but without Apple if Apple not support what the music labels want. I will still become a exciting year for the music industry. They are going to attack each other not only on horizontal but also on vertical battlefields. The advantage has the consumer in the end. If the younger generation pay money for music in future is exciting because he never paid before. There will definitely a battle between the flaterate and the advertisment model in the end and some niches in between – nobody could know this in these days when all players change their strategy and play around with every possibility
Google Sky available in Browser
Sunday, March 16th, 2008 by Michael AltendorfI just read at slashdot that Google Sky is available in the browser now!
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/16/123259&from=rss
Here is one of the phenomenal Hubble images:
Try it out!
I changed the title
Thursday, March 13th, 2008 by Michael AltendorfFrom SAP to Enterprise Web 2.0 (and into online Music Business)
I just changed the topic a bit due to the thing that i am doing nothing with opensource or virtual worlds at the moment and much more with Web 2.0 and the online music market and new online business models
Noisepollution,Trend Reznor/ Nine inch Nails and his bank account
Thursday, March 13th, 2008 by Michael AltendorfI just saw in Silicon Alley Insider…
Trend Reznor earned $1.6 mio in the first week and sold 800000 albums….(Radiohead 1.3Mio for sure, that’s more but you have to realize that they are also the better band)
not bad! Definitely, this is one new business model but this works only for 1% of the bands and only for the bands for which the majors already paid a lot of marketing. Otherwise nobody would know that they have a new CD. Or do you know that my friends from Soabox have a new CD out soon?
4 songs and a pic: http://www.myspace.com/soapboxmusic
to pre order the cd: http://www.soapbox-online.de/ So we will see if they also earn $1.6Mio (I hope so
And not to forget The Noispollution Festival of Kindergarten friend Timo happens the last time in Odenwald in April!
http://www.myspace.com/noisepollutionfestival (You should listen to Long Distance Calling)
CEBIT 2008 review
Thursday, March 6th, 2008 by Michael AltendorfSo, yesterday I was at the Cebit in Hannover. It was a long journey to Hannover and I am not sure if i will go there again next year. It was my first visit after 10 years. Yes, this was in the middle of the golden new economy hype and my company at this time were I still was in school paid the whole weekend for me. I was much more excited than yesterday. Their was only an expensive Enterprise 2.0 conference but no cool free keynotes by any IT guru. The only two people I listened to were Nick Carr and a german one with red punk hairstyle. His blog is more interesting than its bad prepared 45min lecture were he tried to connect his webcam to a video page but failed in the end. You find this here: http://www.telekom2.de/trendforum on friday Don Tapscott of Wikinomics is talking there. I think you get a podcast at this site. Nick Carr talked about the same like in his book. SaaS and Data Centers as most of us already now. But it was more interesting than the other one. So I do not have to read his book, ok, the question is now: if I really wanted to read that.
The rest of the day a walked across some halls with massive big TFT and LCD screens. Tried out all new touch things (screens, phones etc.) and played computer games on very big displays – The computer retailes had big booths and offered a lot of things for the reals gamer community. After 6 hours of powerpoints about every business thing you could imagine a tried the bread at the MSFT booth watched what my company shows there. The last 2 hours than I tried to find it interesting to see 100 different asian memory stick vendors. But one thing to mention: when you find the Asus EEE PC is cool – a lot of asian vendors sell some kind of UMPCs which were smaller and much cooler and I think also not so expensive as the samsung one. The Asus eee Pc has a too small keyboard and a too small display but perhaps the new one improves this so much, that you could really work with it. But for this price a good thing.
But as you could see on my other blog entries today. The innovation happens elsewhere but not at the Cebit… ok, I am more the Internet guy and not the gamer. For gamers they showed really cool things also some new business things but the real cool announcement did not happen…
more new things today: Fire Eagle and LBS information broker and the Google Contact API
Thursday, March 6th, 2008 by Michael AltendorfWith this thing you could e.g. sync Gmail contacts with your mobile phonne
http://googledataapis.blogspot.com/2008/03/3-2-1-contact-api-has-landed.html
Here is a video of fire eagle
http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2008/03/fire_eagle_launches.html
The source I found this once again: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_releases_contacts_api.php I think McManus is now No1 in Web 2.0 and Scobe and Mr Arrington and outstrip them both in 2008 in being the first who announces new cool stuff. but I can’t proof this.