Archive for December, 2010

mSpot Cloud Music

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

mSpot allows customers to sync all your music collection across mobile phones and PCs/Macs to iPhones and I believe iPad’s with the launch of their new app. Since the service’s public launch in June, mSpot has seen over 1 million downloads of a similar app for Android phones.

The new mSpot application will allow users to upload their music to the mSpot Cloud and then listen to the music from both
desktop browsers and iPhones for free.  Free 2GB of hard drive space (aprox 1600 songs) and $3.99/month for the 40GB cloud hosting plan (36000 songs).

No doubt that cloud music will be huge in the near future.  Cloud musica!

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Day 1 at Le Web

Wednesday, December 8th, 2010

The largest Tech conference in Europe: Le Web 10 kicked off a little earlier today.  There will be a lot of large tech companies using cloud hosting such as Twitter’s Jason Goldman, Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley and Google’s Marissa Mayer.

The Le Web event will be live streamed in its entirety courtesy of Ustream and you can watch the video above and here as well as live above on best cloud server.

Here is the schedule, hope you enjoy!

DAY 1 – DEC 8, 2010 – Pullman PLENARY ROOM
Times are Paris time.

08h00 – Welcome Buffet Breakfast
sponsored by Cotty Vivant Marchisio & Lauzeral – Law Firm

09h00 – Opening remarks
Geraldine & Loïc Le Meur, LeWeb Founders

09h25 – Welcome Keynote
Carlos Ghosn, Chairman & CEO, Renault S.A. & Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
Q&A with Loïc Le Meur

State of the Industry: Platform Thought Leaders

09h50 – Charlie Kindel, GM, WP7 Developer Ecosystem, Microsoft Corporation
Q&A with Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb

10h10 – Ethan Beard, Director, Facebook Developer Network, Facebook
Q&A with Michael Arrington, Editor, TechCrunch

10h30 – Jason Goldman, VP of Product, Twitter
Q&A with MG Siegler, Writer, TechCrunch

10h50 – Mike Jones, CEO, MySpace
Q&A with Robert Scoble, American Blogger, Tech Evangelist & Author

11h10 – Dr. Bertrand Piccard, Initiator & Chairman, Solar Impulse
Keynote & Q&A with Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb

11h35 – Stephane Richard, CEO, France Telecom-Orange
Q&A with David Barroux, Companies News Editor in Chief, LesEchos

Let’s Play – Game Talk

11h55 – Sebastien de Halleux, Co-Founder, Playfish & VP, Business Development & Strategic Partnerships,

EA Interactive
Q&A with Veronica Belmont, Host, Tekzilla

12h15 – Mikael Hed, CEO, Rovio behind the best selling mobile app Angry Birds
Q&A with Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb

Mobile and Innovation

12h35 – Marko Ahtisaari, SVP Design, Nokia

12h55 – Osama Bedier, Vice President of Platform, Mobile and New Ventures, PayPal
Q&A with Milo Yiannopoulos, Technology columnist, Telegraph.co.uk

13h15 – 14h30 – LUNCH BREAK

14h30 – Ignite @ LeWeb

15h30 – Fireside Chat with Marissa Mayer, VP, Google
& Michael Arrington, Editor, TechCrunch

Get Mobilized

15h55 – Fireside chat with Tomoko Namba, CEO, DeNA
& Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb

16h15 – Christopher Smith, Senior Director, BlackBerry Development Platform, Research In Motion Ltd.
Q&A with Ryan Block, Co-founder & Editor Emeritus, gdgt & Engadget

16h35 – Dennis Crowley, Co-Founder, foursquare
Q&A with Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb

The Media Platforms

16h55 – Media Panel

Moderated by: Adrian Monck, Managing Director, Head of Communications & Media, World Economic Forum

Panelists:
Julio Alonso, Founder & CEO, Weblogs SL
Pierre Chappaz, Founder & CEO, Wikio
Kenneth “KC” Estenson, Senior Vice President & General Manager, CNN.com
Gabe Rivera, Founder & CEO, Techmeme
Ben Rooney, Technology Editor, The Wall Street Journal Europe

17h40 – Platform for Charity
Joe Green, Co-Founder & President, Causes

18h00 – Leo Laporte, Author, Speaker & Broadcaster
Featuring:
Brent Hoberman, Founder & Executive Chairman, mydeco
Marc Simoncini, Founder & CEO, Meetic
Loïc Le Meur, LeWeb Founder

18h30 – Closing Remarks
Geraldine & Loïc Le Meur, LeWeb Founders

19h30 – 22h00 – Official Cocktail Reception

22h30 – 2h00
15/15 32,34 Rue Marbeuf – 75008 Paris
Reserved for LeWeb Participants only
LeWeb participant wristband required @ entrance

Global DJ Bob Sinclar
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL EUROPE LeWEB’10 PARTY
Drinks sponsored by BuddyMedia

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Google eBooks in the Cloud

Monday, December 6th, 2010

The new Google ebookstore opened today.  They are launching with around 4,000 publisher partners.  4,000 is the figure for the US launch, but internationally they should have around 35,000.

They are reported to have all the major publishers signed on.  This is estimated to be providing a total of around 300,000 in-copyright works, mostly likely including anything you could buy new at any other bookstore.

GoodReads is their first (and only, at launch) “affiliate network” partner; eBooks services will be tied into the social reading site and revenue will be split three ways.  The major publishers will be taking 70% of the list price, others will be taking 52%, and the many independent bookstores and publishers Google has negotiated with have their own undisclosed rates.

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