Oct 17th, 2007
Largest Swimming Pool on Earth
This is amazing from Google Sight Seeing: Apparently officially recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records, here in San Alfonso del Mar in Chile you can hardly miss the world’s largest swimming pool! This absolutely immense pool is 1 kilometre long and covers eight hectares – that’s 80,000 square metres! Furthermore, it contains an incredible [...]
Oct 17th, 2007
Would You Like to Live Until 100 Years Old?
Rockstars die young. If you want to live another 30-40 years to enjoy your wealth after years hard work, the perhaps you should visit livingto100.com. At living to100, you can take a free test by providing your health history and your lifestyle background. After complete the test, their Life Expectancy Calculator will give you suggestions [...]
Oct 17th, 2007
ACDC.com Is Back to The King of Rock
Great news it is. Got this from Rolling Stone. The King ACDC is finally reclaim acdc.com from porn site. You can now get all the news from the greatest rock band in the world through its name rather than acdcrocks.com (its old official site). The Internet domain for ACDC.com was held for years by a company [...]
Oct 17th, 2007
Healthy and Rather Smart Community in Gather
I’ve just created a profile in Gather. Been there for a while i just knew that Gather has more than i thought. There are many great people at Gather. They’re connected in groups, like other networking site. But i found many articles interests me, especially tips to do life better. There’s no open source applications [...]
Oct 16th, 2007
Introducing Gooruze
My profile is lowrobb.gooruze.com.No, it’s not about music. I’m testing this new internet marketing network, Gooruze.com. (blurppp: that’s why those big blogs posting about Gooruze.com wasn’t it?). Whatever. Sponsor:Get Paid to Blog About the Things You Love!
Oct 16th, 2007
iTunes DRM Free Music is Now Cheaper, Thanks to Amazon
I-Tunes is suddenly lower its iTunes Plus store from $1.29 to $.99 since the successful launched of cheaper Amazon’s MP3 download. Thanks to Amazon for creating a real competition so iTunes can’t walk alone and become the new Microsoft in music download. Sponsor:Get Paid to Blog About the Things You Love!
Oct 16th, 2007
My Blog Slide Presentation
I’m testing this which i think is so cool. You can embed any blog you like, or your own blog. You can choose either to make a slide form RSS (like one below) or slide to bookmark. This is excellent. Anyway, here’s how Diigo works: [youtube width="425" height="355"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlqfJsmjcOs[/youtube]
Oct 13th, 2007
Unsigned Band Can Get Free Publicity Service
This is a cool domain name Unsigned.com. I remember my time as unsigned band tried to hook up with labels, got the rejection and all those classic stories. Unsigned.com could be a great way for unsigned artists to connect with a potential fanbase. Bands and Artists pay nothing for the service, so it’s a free publicity. Their [...]
Oct 12th, 2007
Pick Your Set for Your Favorite Bands
Found this cool site to promote your band and stay in touch with your fans, pickRset: In one word: Connection. This site allows bands to communicate with their fans and allow the fans to actually feel like they are part of the show and that their voice really matters. Let’s be honest, [...]
Oct 12th, 2007
The Simplicity of The Internet
Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.
Oct 12th, 2007
Sonific at Facebook
After my last post related to Gerd Leonhard, find this email at my inbox this morning. I’m a Facebook user for a while and i’m sick and tired to have that many applications invitations from friends and other users. But of course i have my favorites such as GoodReads, ILike, Shelfari, GapingVoid, BoozeMail, FafarazziCelebHeads and my [...]
Oct 11th, 2007
Gerd Leonhard Book For FREE
Gerd Leonhard has been known as the founder of Sonific’s SongSpots (posted my Sonific player here) and the author of The Future of Music. Continuing his great work and contribution to the great music 2.0., Leonhard has released a new super cool new book The End of Control which you can have it for free. Yes [...]
Oct 10th, 2007
Mixaloo, Share Your Mixtapes
Found this at TechCrunch today. Mixaloo is taking a phenomenon – the mixtape – that has spanned several decades and media formats – 8 tracks, audio cassettes, CDs, and MP3 players – and bringing it to the web. As a Mixaloo user, you can create playlists of music from all the major record labels, including Warner, Universal, [...]
Oct 9th, 2007
Cool Site for Independent Artists
Excerpts from KillerStartups reviewing a new music site: Are you a self-producing music artist or a fan of independent music? Go directly to SoundTribes.com and you’ll feel right at home. SoundTribes.com is a site that gives unsigned bands and artists a platform on which they can create their own space, upload tracks and videos, make ringtones [...]
Oct 9th, 2007
Aime Street Social Media Site
If you don’t know AimeStreet, below is the excerpt from their site: We know music is social, and finding new music needs to be fun. Music discovery is best served by communication between people, so we reward fans when they recommend songs to their friends by giving them credit to buy more music. Whether you spend [...]
Oct 8th, 2007
This is Not a Photograph
Could you believe that this is not a photograph? Details here.
Oct 8th, 2007
Neil Part Drum Solo Ringtones Available Now
Can you imagine if you have a Rush ringtone on your phone? I’ll pick a Tom Sawyer because of the intro, but i’ll take a full band set. But what if Neil Part’s solo is your ringtone? Check this out Rush fans!
Oct 5th, 2007
Alien Will Rule The World
After digital downloads rule the music world, now it’s time for Aliens to rule the world. UFO has reportedly landed in Romania.
Oct 5th, 2007
Digital Music Museumize The Old Record Model?
A close look on digital music and the old music record format sales comparison from emarketer. Well this is a witness of the downfall of soon-to-be-museumized old record format. Radiohead knows very well where their source of income is. After their new album spreads freely via the free download, soon after they announce the tour, KACLINGGG, [...]
Oct 4th, 2007
What’s Your Rockstar Name?
Found this fun site to get a rockstar name. This site also can convert your ordinary name into rockstar, popstar, rapstar and countrystar name. My name is converted, here’s the result:1. Real name: Robin Malau2. Rockstar name: Vinnie Dickinson3. Popstar name: T.K. Edmonds4. Rapstar name: Too Freak5. Countrystar name: Waylon Clayton Dude to be honest, i hate [...]
Oct 2nd, 2007
Comments on Amazon MP3
There’s a lot of positive comments about Amazon MP3 from all over the web. Some high profile blogs comments are listed at Our Digital Music.
Oct 1st, 2007
I Feel Like Giving Away Something For Free
Yeah, I’m glad I finally make my latest post, it has been in my mind for a while. Now I feel free so I’ll give you something for free. I found this cool e-book from Andrew Dubber, the owner of www.newmusicstrategies.com. Dubber is a very intelligent person and he’s giving away e-book that contains his [...]
Sep 30th, 2007
How’s Your Sound Badge Sounds?
Do you know what soundbadge is? Soundbadge describe it as: a unique beat loop that sounds just like you, then wear it anywhere on and off the web Cool. So I tried it and picked up the classic hip hop tunes as a theme, fill my personality, and my sound badge sounds like below. This is the original [...]
Sep 28th, 2007
Music Business Solution
There’s a cool site Nimbit Music that can be your solution to sell your music online. You can also manage to sell your music & merchandise, add your show schedule, add your band’s bio, allowing the fans to connect with your band through newsletter and a shopping cart. This service is a free setup and they [...]
Sep 28th, 2007
Amazon MP3 Now Available
Amazon has just launched Amazon MP3, a new online digital music store selling DRM-free MP3s for $0.89 to $0.99 a la carte or $5.99 to $9.99 per album. Dude that’s as cheap or even cheaper than ITunes music store but without DRM restrictions. Featuring over two million songs from over 180,000 artists, it’s shaping up to be [...]
Sep 26th, 2007
Predicting The Next Big Thing by Quantifying
Predicting the next big thing is a core skill required to be A&R. Somehow you only have your eyes, ears and the first 20 seconds demo cd to decide whether the artist will be big or not in your point of view. Well if you have the talent, or even an experience A&R want [...]
Sep 25th, 2007
From The Blogosphere
So yeah i finally decided to jump in the blogrush bandwagon. Been there on the blogosphere for a while, and i see professional bloggers implement blogrush and wrote about it. To be honest, when i see the video demo weeks ago at their site, blogrush works like a viral mode at its best. But i don’t [...]
Sep 24th, 2007
Bob Dylan Getting Viral Marketing
To promote his new album, Bob Dylan’s team seems to get viral. They have this cool and fun custom message generator to promote the album. Moreover, for Facebook users, TechEnlightenment has gone forward and made the application so you can post a custom message about Dylan on your profile. Dylan, the new album contains Bob Dylan’s ultimate [...]
Sep 23rd, 2007
Get a Local Concert at Gruvr
Found this interesting site, Gruvr. A site where you can track all your favorite bands at Google Maps. Gruvr is a local based concert tracker. By the time i’m at Kuta Bali, i couldn’t find any registered band at Gruvr. So i tried to track Foo Fighters concert (which no way they would come to [...]
Sep 22nd, 2007
HipHop Centered New Social Network
If you’re a hiphop fans, then i think you should check this site reviewed by KillerStartups: StreetCred is a new hip hop centered social network which already has been endorsed by the likes of Snoop Dogg, Common, and T.I. Partnerships with Warner Music and Sony are in the works to provide the network with music videos [...]
