Gerdleonhard Videos

This was one of my best presentations on the topic of the music flat rate - the PDF and more details are here. From the intro on the A2N Berlin site: Digital music is in a serious gridlock: everyone is using it, very few are paying for it, and nobody except for Apple has yet succeeded in making a business of it. At the same time, broadband penetration in Europe is exploding, mobile devices are getting ever more powerful, and almost a Billion people will be always-online at high speeds, within 2 years, sharing music on social networks and via all kinds of digital networks. Attempts at making ISPs and telecoms reponsible for solving the business model problems of the industry have failed, 95% of the Digital Natives in Europe are guilty of copyright infringement, and this logjam is becoming a major cultural, political and economic issue. Meanwhile, flat-rated, collective music licenses for the digital music are being trialled in Denmark, the Isle of Man, Turkey and China. For the past 6 years, Gerd Leonhard has been suggesting that Music on the Internet needs to be licensed like Radio: collectively, publicly and compulsory, and a revenue-sharing basis, so that a new, web-native music ecosystem can unfold..."

One of my favorite musicians (and fellow Berklee guitarist) John Mayer has recently launched a new site that makes very interesting use of augmented reality concepts. All you need to do is allow the flash player access to your web-cam, print out a single page with the control icon, and follow the instructions. I liked it so much I made a short video about the experience - this kind of thing will be big, no doubt; in fact, I think it will be one of those key 'new generatives' that could well be offered in premium packages going forward... stay tuned!

This is more than a hunch - been using it for 12 months - Instapaper rocks. I have saved 10s of 1000s of pages in print with this app. I wrote about it last year. There is a free version but the $10 for the pro version is worth it as it adds the really cool scrolling feature.

Only 3% of the world is on broadband today, and it's neither cheap, fast or mobile enough. This will change in the next 2-3 years, and the implications are huge: everyone shares, everyone networks with strangers-like-me, everyone co-creates, everything is connected. A video by Futurist and Author Gerd Leonhard. More information at the MediaFuturist blog.