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Toon Roos Quartet - Return To Happiness (via MuseionMedia) Saw...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:26:00 +0100

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.

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

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:16:33 +0100

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

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

"If we can all intellectually and emotionally own our failures, then you control your destiny,”..."

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:04:40 +0100

““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

The next Facebook or Hyves? Your address book. Just published my...

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:29:47 +0100

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.

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

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:08:10 +0100

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

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

fred-wilson: Whole Lotta Love (Led Zep cover) - Prince and his...

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:54:10 +0200

fred-wilson:

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

this is called talent

Little black bar

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:01:49 +0200

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.

"What it’s missing is a Twitter-like timeline. But I honestly don’t think that’s so..."

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:03:00 +0200

“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)

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

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:03:18 +0200

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

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

"The new model for news curation and selection, I feel, will be a balance of professional editing and..."

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:35:44 +0200

“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

"All of this renovation and motivation and passion is, apparently, aimed to woo companies back into..."

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:48:21 +0200

“All of this renovation and motivation and passion is, apparently, aimed to woo companies back into Second Life, and here’s why: Now that broadband, advanced processors and headsets are commonplace, it is now feasible to choose Second Life as a much more pleasant and inviting place to host your meetings and conference calls, especially in a world rife with swine flu and chopped travel budgets. You can easily set up an office space or a conference room and all meet up in-world, together, to engage in negotiations and collaboration. What’s more, thanks to something like SkypeIn and SkypeOut, you’ll soon be able to loop in all the folks who can’t make it to SL through a telephone-to-Second Life number. And soon, denizens of Second Life will be able to send and receive SMS text messages via their in-world cell phone to their friends who are outsiders, according to Linden Labs’ Kingdom.”

- Second Life, past the hype. Can you tell what’s real any more? Via Scobleizer and Adage.

Nice example of augmented reality by Lego. Via @nalden

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:48:33 +0200

Nice example of augmented reality by Lego. Via @nalden

Now, these are bikes

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:55:52 +0200

Now, these are bikes

Books for entrepreneurs

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:36:00 +0200

Books for entrepreneurs:

Was re-reading a post from Fred Wilson on books for entrepreneurs and there’s a lot of inspiration to be found in there. Ordered 3 books myself as a result:

The Prince - Machiavelli
Sun Tzu
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance- Robert Pirsiq

Presentation by Jyri Engestrom leaving Google. Must read. Check...

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:46:35 +0200

Presentation by Jyri Engestrom leaving Google. Must read. Check slide 32: the vision behind RealMee in one page. Via TechCrunch.

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-11)

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:17:31 +0200

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-11):

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-4)

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:20:48 +0200

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-4):

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-27)

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:22:09 +0200

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-27):

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-20)

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:43:52 +0200

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-20):

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

"The reason I’ve been writing about existing forms is that I don’t know what new forms..."

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:53:00 +0200

“The reason I’ve been writing about existing forms is that I don’t know what new forms will appear. But though I can’t predict specific winners, I can offer a recipe for recognizing them. When you see something that’s taking advantage of new technology to give people something they want that they couldn’t have before, you’re probably looking at a winner. And when you see something that’s merely reacting to new technology in an attempt to preserve some existing source of revenue, you’re probably looking at a loser.”

- A piece by Paul Graham called Post-Medium Publishing that argues we weren’t paying for content in the past and that this isn’t likely to change in the future. Food for thought.