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My Soul Is Craving Culture

Lately I have had an over-dose of blogs and media covering the Web, social networks, start-ups and technology. To cure this I have come up with my own prescription:

• Classical Music Podcasts
• Jazz Podcasts
• MP3 Podcasts
• Ideas & Culture Podcasts
• Science Podcasts
• Free University Courses

NPR and watching interesting videos on the free-open source video platform Miro. Offline line reading: Umberto Eco's: The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana. The only technical/ web related blog I read follow regularly is Lifehacker. While we are on the subject of reading. What are your life changing books?

Loic's & my Run & PoolCast From Spain

 

Loic's and my first RunCast together finishing of with a PoolCast filmed at a secret location in north Spain.

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Virtual Goods Summit 2007 Videos Up

Here's two video's from the Virtual Goods Summit in Stanford last month. The first: Virtual Items - mainstream or not? Featuring: Jia Shen, James Hong, Robert Scoble, J.T. Stephens and John Vars.

The second video: "Making Virtual Economies Work" focused on what it takes to build, launch, and maintain a successful virtual economy. Featuring: Mark, Joshua, Brock, Raph, and John.

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Outsourcing My Life # 5

Here's a new episode of outsourcing my life. New experiment: To outsource the building of a new business. Comments welcome!

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Piclens A Really Cool Way of Browsing Pictures

I have been following the guys from Cooliris for a bit more than a year now and today they came to see me and demonstrated their new product: Piclens. Piclens delivers an immersive and full-screen experience for viewing photos on the Web. By downloading a browser plugin, you can search and browser images from Google, Flickr, Yahoo, Friendster and more in full-screen theater like mode. I think it really rocks and totally changes the way images can be experienced on the Web. Download Piclens here!

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Ideas for the Next Le Web 3

Here are some additional thoughts I have for the next Le Web 3.

1. Lifehacker competition
2. Virtual goods, world & economy panel/speakers
3. Bootstrapping - building the most effective and cheapest bootstrapping budget

Technorati Tags: bootstrapping, leweb3, lifehacking, Lifehacks, vgsummit2007, virtualworld

At the Virtual Goods Summit 2007

I am at the first Virtual Goods Summit taking place on Stanford Campus. Virtual worlds and good are really getting hot and here are some amazing facts:

• Tencent with the QQ IM brand in China has more than 254 unique million users & 28MM simultaneous users
• Neopets: 40 MM registered users and 750, 000 daily transactions
• Nexon: 3.5 MM registered users, virtual goods cost between $0.60-$1.00. People by functional & decorative items like a rainbow colored balloon to use in a game rather than that standard balloon because people don't want to be like all the others.
• Nexon users spend more money on virtual haircuts than on normal haircuts!
• Habbo Hotel sells more furniture than IKEA!

I am really happy that I decided to go here and skip the second day at Supernova. Virtual goods and worlds are going to be so huge - the fun has only got started.

Technorati Tags: Habbo Hotel, Neopets, Nexon, Virtual economy, Virtual worlds, puppy, puppy, QQ, Tencent, Vgsummit2007

Off to San Francisco & SuperNova 2007

I'm off to San Francisco (again) for a bunch of meetings and SuperNova 2007. I have a lot of interesting meetings lined up, amongst others: meetings with my two favorite platform providers: Facebook and the Twitter. I know most of my readers have lots of request for new features and improvements - dump them here and I'll make sure they reach the right people.

I will spend all Wednesday to Friday in San Francisco and will be in Palo Alto the rest of time (until 27th). I you wanna meet up please leave me a comment or just get in touch directly.

I will also try to post a daily video on Facebook so feel free to tune in from time to time. Also, don't forget to join The Maxthon Lovers group on Facebook. It's growing and would love to see you there as well. Oh, and don't forget to join the Le Web 3 group as well.

Maxthon also have a skin competition coming up soon for the 2.0 version with cool prices. If you want to create a cool skin and spread it to millions of users around the world and even have the chance to win the default position - please let me know. Start- ups and companies are also welcome!

Technorati Tags: Jaiku, Maxthon, leweb3, leweb3.1, Supernova2007, Twitter

Free Classical Music Podcasts

• An Intimate Tour Through the Music of Yo-Yo Ma  iTunes  Feed  Web Site
  • Each episode of this podcast delves into the history of his career, and what led him to record each of the tracks of his current release Appassionato.
• Bach Podcast from Magnatune.com  iTunes  Feed  Web Site
  • 60 free minutes of Bach.
• Bach Festival of Philadelphia  Feed  Web Site 
  
  • Live performances of J.S. Bach works performed by various artists for The Bach Festival of Philadelphia.
• Boston Symphony Orchestra Conservatory  iTunes  Feed  Web Site
  • This educational podcast gives you an inside look at the symphony. Currently you will find a two season overview and recordings of Beethoven and Arnold Schoenberg.
• Classical Performance iTunes  Feed  Web Site
  • Classical music performances from WGBH's Studio One in Boston.
• Danmarks Radio - Mozart Symphonies  Feed  Web Site
  • For the celebration of Mozart's 250th anniversary, Denmark radio offered podcasts of nine Mozart symphonies by the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Since the web site is in Danish, your best bet is to access these high quality MP3's through the feed.
• Deutsche Welle
  • Beethovenfest iTunes  Feed  Web Site
    
    • Beethoven's most famous symphonies performed by excellent young orchestras and new compositions by award-winning composers.
  • Classical Masterpieces  iTunes  Feed  Web Site
    
    • Six master composers, six symphonies, a star conductor and a leading orchestra are the main ingredients of this remarkable musical feast.
• Gramophone Podcast  Feed  Web Site
  • A monthly window into the world's most authoritative classical music magazine, featuring an overview of the best releases, news, exclusive interviews with leading figures from the music world, and lots of great music.
• NPR Music  iTunes  Feed  Web Site
  
  • Reviews, musician interviews, live recordings from Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and other NPR programs.
• Radio Sweden: Mozart  iTunes  Feed  Web Site
  • Swedish Radio has launched a Mozart Podcast to celebrate Mozart’s 250th birthday. They've been podcasting their own recordings from the 1940-1950s of Mozart’s operas.
• The Concert iTunes  Feed  Web Site
  • Beethoven, Bach, Mozart and more from the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in Boston.

All free from Open Culture. Have listened to several of them - top quality.


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Super Nova & San Francisco Next Week

I going to be at Super Nova 2007 and in the Bay area starting next week June 19-26. If you want to meet up please let me a comment alternative find my contact info on this blog.

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