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Merry Christmas everybody

After a year of hard work for everybody at IIP we shared a great dinner together. Hereby I would like to wish all partners, friends and customers peaceful  Christmas and a great and prosperous and super digital New Year. For me it's time to switch of for a couple of days and think of everything I have been through. It was quite and exiting, busy, sweet, sad, crazy, inspired year. Working on a start-up means burning the candle on both sides, but I am so happy to do this work. To all of you out there have a great time. Love, peace and happiness. XM

Top 10 video sharing sites (old news ;-)

>> Top 10 video sharing sites  And the winner is

ZAPPA saw it coming ;-)

Pandora Goes Social

Pandora, which plays streaming music for free via a flash player on its site, is one of the first companies we profiled on TechCrunch, back in August 2005 during the original Bar Camp meetup. I still listen to it most of the time I’m writing blog entries.>> TechCrunch

LastFM & EMI team up to Glue

>> TUNEGLUE

Apple Counters Negative Forrester Assessment

Apple has recently questioned the accuracy of a negative iTunes sales assessment by Forrester Research. Among other things, the report pointed to low per-iPod sales levels and a sizeable 65 percent drop in monthly purchases during the first half. Report author Josh Bernoff noted that some seasonal drops could be happening, and warned against drawing any firm conclusions. "With only two years of full data, it is too soon to tell if this decline was seasonal, or if buyers were reaching their saturation level for digital music," Bernoff said. But the report characterizes the iTunes Store as a marginal revenue contributor, and outlines a negative sales momentum. "iTunes won’t save the music business, or Apple," Bernoff flatly asserted. >> Digital Music News

1st FUGA user test, I am very excited

8 people in Amsterdam, one in the south of France and soon thousends of people around the world. It all starts at some point in time.

Testing Sonific

Its time for action

Apple created a paid download market, and the iTunes Store remains a bellwether for the sector. But according to a recent Forrester Research report, the number of iTunes buyers is actually quite low. The study, released this week, found that just 3 percent of households in the United States have made a purchase from the store. Those buyers spent an average of $35 a year, according to the report, and about $3 per session. The report also pointed to low per-iPod paid download levels, a sore spot for labels. "Since the introduction of the iTunes Music Store, Apple has been steadily selling just 20 iTunes tracks for each iPod sold, suggesting that even at $0.99, most consumers still aren’t sold on the value of digital music," the report asserted.>> Digital Music News >> Forrester

Gotshrimp >> Its time to start the DRM discussion again and this time the outcome should be simple: Kill DRM for paid download services, work with DRM in cases like Rhapsody or other subscription/advertising based models and let the music flow. Create the value consumers expect and get you music on as many legal services as possible. I am so happy we created IIP and FUGA, this is what we do for content owners. Don't be afraid of losing control, be afraid of losing business. >> IIP

New Mozart Edition online

The Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum (ISM; International Mozart Foundation) has digitized Mozart’s music, and in this groundbreaking project is making it accessible to everyone on its web site. >> Neue Mozart Ausgabe >> search