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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
new buzzzz-bis
This Layar is a free application. Great stuff, all this 'everything is open, everything is free, please use it and develop it further'. But at some point we'll have what we had with content: a whole new generation of kids who will néver-éver pay for software or applications. So where is the business model in that?
the new buzzzz is augmented reality
Can't be a coincidance. First I read about augmented reality as a means for the Dutch ANWB cardrivers' association to rebuild their old Wap-page into a sophisticated mobile environment using the augmented reality mobile browser Layar. Then some guy on the radio this morning (on the radio!!!) explains some cool marketing trick by GE by which you print out a simple black-and-white design on a page and hold it before your webcam en behold: an animation starts to play on your computer. The ANWB stuff makes much more sense, but then again, marketing could finally become a bit more interesting.
Monday, August 17, 2009
city music @ your service
Cute idea, to start a streaming platform offering music based on ... cities. A location based approach by a club called CitySounds.fm. You choose a city and you get a stream, expecting the music streams to be different in Nashville than streams from New York or Berlin. Or are they? And what is that, 'music from a city': from artists living and working there? Or is 'Amsterdam' basically music 'made in Holland' and 'Berlin' music 'made in Germany'? Or is it music popular in trendsetting clubs in those cities? All tracks offered come from one platform (SoundCloud.com) , guys from Sweden who settled in Berlin and started this dedicated music site. I'm just curious how the selection of cities is going to evolve and how they make musical selections. 'Cause why would I want to know what music is being played in, let's say, Cincinatti? I'd be much more curious about Marseille, Jo'burg or ... Mumbai. And CitySounds.fm is basically nothing more than a mashup of Sound.com tracks and Flick'r images. .. But let's give it a try first. With (again) thanks to Springwise.
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