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Toon Roos Quartet - Return To Happiness (via MuseionMedia)

Saw Toon Roos and his quartet live in concert at the Bimhuis in Amsterdam last Friday. I really enjoyed their beautiful songs, compostions and tasteful playing. Special guest was one of my all time favorite drummers Peter Erskine, who played with two of my favorite bands Weather Report and Steely Dan. First time I saw him play live. This guy is really awesome. What a musician. His technical chops are out of this world but they never get in the way of his musicality. And it seems he recorded a new album with the quartet which is to be released this fall. A must have. This video is a piece by Toon recorded at a show at the Bimhuis last year. Without Erskine, but beautiful nonetheless.

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» My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-1)

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“ If we can all intellectually and emotionally own our failures, then you control your destiny,” Pincus said in an completely off-the-cuff talk.

— A Silicon Valley Conference About Failing is Big Success | Epicenter | Wired.com

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The next Facebook or Hyves? Your address book. Just published my own Google profile that linked to my complete social graph and joined the social search experiment in Google Labs. Not getting any results yet. Not all social networks are indexed at this moment, the rumour goes. Am really excited about the possibilities of this step and look forward to seeing the first search results from my friends showing up in a Google query.

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» My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-25)

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fred-wilson:

Whole Lotta Love (Led Zep cover) - Prince and his acoustic guitar

this is called talent

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Take a look at the bottom of my blog. Yep, a brand new Streampad player that enables you to listen to all the music I have posted to ronaldcarpentier.com over time. I love it. If you like what you hear you can click through to Amazon or iTunes to buy it. Streampad also scrobbles all listens to your last.fm profile if you want. And the player was a breeze to install. No need to get an account, nothing. Took me 1 minute. From the AOL music team. Didn’t even realize they were in this game but they are rolling out features regularly by looking at their blog. An API for developers, support for multiple blogging platforms etc. Enjoy.

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“ What it’s missing is a Twitter-like timeline. But I honestly don’t think that’s so hard to do. I think they already do the hard stuff. Maybe when Carol Bartz gets over the flu we could meet to talk about giving Flickr a lot of independence and a bunch of cash and letting it be free to compete in wild, free of the constraints of corporate Yahoo. Then, once it’s flying, the various Yahoo properties can latch on to its growth as any other developer could.

— Flickr in hindsight (Scripting News)

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» My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-18)

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“ The new model for news curation and selection, I feel, will be a balance of professional editing and collaborative news filtering. In one incarnation, news organizations will look at feeds from highly respected news fans, and that will drive stories that are featured more prominently.

— Craig Newmark: A Nerd’s Take On The Future Of News Media

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