… quoting Michael on the last comment on the Reality Jockey post of July 3rd, 2007.
Michael and Reality Jockey have a new home: http://www.rjdj.me
We wish you all the best for the future!
Manfred, Jodok and the rest of the Lovely Team.
Are you working at the Lovely HQ or another open space office?
Do you like listening to music when working?
Are you sick of your colleagues (especially people like manfred) shouting at you when you have your headphones on?
Here is something for you.
I just added a page to download the RJ aka Reality Jockey application. The Lovely office is an open space office and we have a couple of people who are more productive when they are listening to music (bernd, armin, me, me, and me again) and we have others who are totally ineffective with music (jürgen, manfred, manfred and manfred again).
So we solved the problem. Using RJ you can now listen to your favorite music via your headphones and at the same time staying connected with the world around you.
Lovely people, get your headphones out now!
I m in berlin at the moment and just remembered a conversation i had with Markus Schneider whom i met here last time i visited the city. Markus is music journalist for the Berliner Zeitung. He told me how hard it was during the 80ties and 90ties to get qualified information about new music. But since 2000 he is recognizing a major increase of general music-knowledge. “Even talking to youngsters about music today, reveals an amazing knowledge about non mainstream genres.”
As cofounder of last.fm this is music to my ears. Why?
News from Sibelius:
Avid Acquires Sibelius, Expands Reach into Global Education Market.
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i just received a mail from Jeremy Silver telling me that the deal is done and dusted. When it comes to music notation there is (was) exactly one company, sibelius. i m very curious what Jeremy is up for next ;-)
Joi Ito’s Web: Aesthetics of the Internet - Context as a Medium:
Just as our monetary system has become very abstract, our currencies represent something that really has no physical reality, most information on the Internet is about context, rather than content. Instead of the hard data of yesteryear that could be bound in a book, stacked in a warehouse and distributed by trucks, the information on the Internet is about being connected LIVE and about being in the right place at the right time.
Shortly after i developed the first idea of www.last.fm in 2000, i did some research and found the article above. Reading it was like washing dust out of my eyes. Totally clear where the journey on the web will be going and totally clear that what i was planning with last.fm is absolutely the right track. i can’t belief joi ito wrote it in 1997 and it is still so up to date.
So lets try something here and have a look at the status of context in the hight of web2.0.
keeping the offers of a portal up to date doesn’t necessarily mean to (buy and) add new applications for the portal shelve (see my last post). Instead, in many portals a more holistic view of business and functionality is needed.
the buzz word is web2.0…. of course, what else?
When web1.0 was trying get its act together and distribute content, web2.0 starts to put this content into context. In different words, instead of downloading mp3 music files (content), put the music files into the context of its users and other music files. Best example for this is good old last.fm. Check out the song/album/artist pages. Did you see that every artist is connected to similar artists or other users?
Online consumers start to understand that a couple of music titles in context to listeners and other music titles is worth more than a ton of music titles without any context.
People tend to speak about the community… everyone wants to start a community on his site. Point is, that community is a possible effect of putting content into context.
So dear portal managers, please don’t even think about buying a community or products which builds up a community. Think about it this way: connect your content to the users to the data and community will follow ;-)
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