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Networked Society, On the Brink #YouTube

In On The Brink we discuss the past, present and future of connectivity with a mix of people including David Rowan, chief editor of Wired UK; Caterina Fake, founder of Flickr; and Eric Wahlforss, the co-founder of Soundcloud. Each of the interviewees discusses the emerging opportunities being enabled by technology as we enter the Networked Society. Concepts such as borderless opportunities and creativity, new open business models, and today's 'dumb society' are brought up and discussed. http://ericsson.com/networkedsociety

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Photo report from the @DottedMusic April trip to Finland

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Here goes a Hipstamatic report from my and my wife's visit to Turku and Helsinki, Finland. Speaking at the Musik & Talang seminar, filming interviews with Live Nation Finland, ThingLink, Fanu, and witnessing the country's capital being massively wasted while celebrating May 1st - all in all, this was an exciting trip.

PS: Was pleased by that situation... A group of teens next to an entrance to a big mall discussing us in Russian once we walked by them: "Look, people here dress differently after all."

Lol.

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Interview for Åbo Underrättelser (Finnish newspaper)

Received the scan of a translated interview I did for a Finnish, Turku newspaper Åbo Underrättelser.

Musik & Talang is just few days away!

Apanovintervju

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Speaking at Musik & Talang music business seminar this Friday, 04/27 #Announcement

I'm leaving to Finland on Thursday, will be speaking at an exciting event in a series called Musik & Talang 2012. I'll be talking on the current social media trends for musicians, will share the presentation here and on Dotted Music next week!

Also, after the trip to Turku I and my wife (who is coming with me and who is the director of our documentary) will stay at Helsinki till next Tuesday, May 1st, to do several interviews for the film. Among the interviewees there is a Live Nation Finland representative, Fanu (hey, I've been his fan for almost a decade!), ThingLink's creative director and few other awesome people I hope we will indeed be able to interview.

Excpect an intensive Hipstamatic report ;)

Trailer for Musik & Talang 2012:

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The time zones headache finally solved with @Time_is

I work and communicate with people all around the world and it is very, very rare that there is someone in the same or even similar (when the difference is not more than an hour) time zone with me. And that's because I'm in GMT +3. There is not too much music business done on that longitude.

I've tried tons of different tools, both on web and iPhone, from something fancy to something obvious like Google Calendar (which crossed me up so many times). But during the last couple weeks I have been spending mere seconds on calculating the time zone differences by typing a simple URL in the browser's address bar.

The free tool I've been enjoying so much is called Time.is. Just check it, or go directly to something like http://time.is/New_York. And be sure to play around with different links and options on the page. Thumb ups to the developers.

Time-is

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Are you a musician? Then I'd like to know...

What is, without thinking on this question for more than 20 seconds, the number one thing you’d like to know right now about the music business?

Please let me know in the comments. With your contact info, if you want to receive a response.

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All About Soundcloud - 03.31 #Webinar #Russian

Soundcloud-webinar

I will host another webinar tomorrow (Saturday, March 31st), yet once again it will be in Russian only (sorry, webinars in English coming soon).

Will be covering one of my most favorite online platforms, Soundcloud! Still there are quite a few musicians and DJs not utilizing this powerful service and network, and many who do - do not realize that Soundcloud hides a lot of powerful little features you must use to your advantage.

Read more on XSSR Academy (in Russian).

Should be fun. Ah, and l definitely need to wear my Soundcloud tee tomorrow :)

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Tenacious D - To Be The Best #YouTube

This is genius, so damn hilarious!

Rize Of The Fenix available May 15th. Pre-order available now at iTunes: http://smarturl.it/rizeofthefenix & Amazon: http://smarturl.it/rizeofthefenixcd. (C) 2012 Sony Music Entertainment

 

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After this weekend's trip I became a @Hipstamatic addict

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That was a truly rich weekend, with a trip to the gorgeous Malbork Castle and Volf's Lair (Adolf Hitler spent there around three years during the WW II).

Katya was filming for the News, and I discovered and found myself totally lost in the Hipstamatic app. It is awesome, and so different. Just try it if you haven't yet (and have an iPhone).

Few photos are here (originally I took around 200, and I've never been that big fan of taking lots of shots!)

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