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Soccer weekend with Jesse

I just love to see my son enjoying soccer so much he can't think of anything else.

Picnic 2007 Amsterdam

This week Amsterdam is filled up with multi media pioneers from all over the world. I had to present at the Kendra summit, but was so badly prepared for this. Sorry people but lately things are a bit crazy and I need some down time. Traveling gets to you after a while and my life has been a bit crazy the last 5 months. But the good news is that IIP is getting serious traction in the market and FUGA is becoming better and better every day. Picnic is a lot wider this year, meaning that almost everything (60 events) is discussed and at display. Maybe a bit too much?? One thing that was very funny is that I was listening to a small press conference with Woody Harrelson about his efforts for a greener world and a Dutch reporter from free newspaper de Pers started to ask stupid questions about smoking dope. With journalists like that you can't ask money for a paper ;-) Of course Eckart and Woody responded the right way. The environment is a serious issue and needs to be a top priority. Famous people can help setting agenda's.

One other funny thing is I met with a guy on a Segway. He asked if I was a Twitter (I thought he said a twentiyer) so I replied no I am in my thirties ;-) Funny but you had to be there.

How do you make a shark mate? Play it Justin Timberlake

By Allan Hall in Berlin     

Published: 08 August 2007    

                  

 

German scientists say sharks, long considered as just aquatic killing machines, apparently have feelings too and are more likely to mate if the right music is played to them. >> Independent UK

 

Popkomm 2007, Berlin

Again a very time in Berlin. Meeting lots of inspiring people and having fun till late ;-)

Here a article in French:

Info & Secteurs > Communication > Actualité

INTERNET - MUSIQUE -

La musique numérique manque encore de revenus et d'un modèle économique
[ 24/09/07 ]

Les conséquences de la révolution numérique était au coeur des débats du salon Popkomm, la semaine dernière à Berlin. Pour les labels, un impératif : changer de modèle économique. Mais chacun en ordre dispersé. Les pessimistes, qui ne voient dans la puissance prise par Internet qu'un flot impossible à éradiquer et les optimistes, qui constatent que jamais la consommation de musique n'a été aussi forte.

DE NOTRE ENVOYÉ SPÉCIAL À BERLIN.Il y a la crise du disque, qui s'aggrave chaque jour, mais aussi des lendemains qui s'annoncent prometteurs. Réunis en fin de semaine dernière à Berlin à l'occasion du salon Popkomm, les acteurs de l'industrie musicale ont une nouvelle fois tenu des débats assez vifs sur le numérique, ses perspectives, ses opportunités, mais aussi ses risques... Et une fois encore, aucune ligne directrice claire ne se dégage, preuve que les nouveaux modes de distribution à l'heure d'Internet et de la téléphonie mobile seront aussi variés et multiples que le CD était unique.

« On peut comparer l'industrie musicale a un serpent qui fait sa mue », constate joliment Martijn Tjho, fondateur de la société IndependentIP. Cette dernière, qui se pose en intermédiaire entre les labels et autres détenteurs de droits et les plates-formes de distribution d'autre part, fait partie de ces multiples sociétés qui ont émergé pour aider les ayants droit à se retrouver dans la complexité de la Toile et surtout à monétiser leur musique. Les Echos

Thanks to my friend Steffen we had a great place to stay and Berlin was like home. A special salut to the guys we met last Friday. Great party guys and thanks for the ball ;-) It looks like things are moving faster than ever, but it also looks like nothing is going to change the : listen, like buy dynamic of music economics ;-)

New York

Together with Cesar in NY now. Meeting lots of people. Its so amazing how I feel this city, it just gives me heaps of energy and sleep seems so far away. IIP is moving ahead and we work hard to get IIP to the top. Today the weather is so nice and the people we meet so open to what we do, just amazing. I love it. Getting a start up from Holland in the arena of digital music is not a walk in the park, but hey who said it would be easy. We are born Global, my friend Par told me this and I start to understand what he meant ;-)