26 Tuesday Feb 2008
Posted in Music
I’ve just read about an interesting pricing strategy on Digital Music News for an online store (article here). Amie Street sell their downloads with a price based upon the demand ranging from free to 98-cents. This is great for new artists, have a better chance at attracting sales than say on iTunes.
We just have to wait and see if it can develop by getting deals made with some of the major labels (currently only deals with significant indie labels) and come to the UK.
26 Tuesday Feb 2008
Posted in Music
The PR for Duffy must be in overdrive. There is no doubting that she has a good voice, but before her debut album is out she’s clocked up performances on Later with Jools Holland, a BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge and a iTunes Live In London Session.
I hope that the album (due out next week) lives up to all of this.
22 Friday Feb 2008
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I had the chance to have a chat with Tom Baeyens, the lead for JBoss’ jBPM development programme who has a blog at Process Developments. He has recently blogged, giving SeeWhy a little mention as a result of our conversation.
22 Friday Feb 2008
Posted in General
A slightly different Top 10 to the usual ones when it comes to music, the Top 10 soundtracks can be found at SoundtrackNet : Top 10 of 2007.
22 Friday Feb 2008
Posted in Music
Another year, and another Brits award, and yet another farce. A few years back the Brits showed signs of becoming credible by acknowledging new artists and new music. But this years’ Brits giving awards to Arctic Monkeys (3rd year running), Take That (just for doing a comeback tour) seems a little retrenchment to say the least. This sort of thinking contributes to the death of the UK music scene. Reading the Guardian blog shows that I’m not the only one holding this view. The only success is that the Osbournes did a relatively reasonable job of hosting the show.
You can see the results from the awards at http://www.brits.co.uk/
21 Thursday Feb 2008
Posted in Music
Bah, I’ve found someone with a bigger music collection than mine. At 3 million records and 300,000 CDs Paul Mawhinney has a slightly larger collection than I have, but he is selling it on eBay. I might have to just get in there a make a bid (I wish).
If you’d like to know more about Paul Mawhinney and this amazing collection then checkout an article here and Record Rama here.
del.icio.us tags: music, collection, CD, records, sale, eBay
20 Wednesday Feb 2008
Posted in Music
An online MP3 war seems to be developing here in the UK. With word that Amazon will arrive in the UK this summer. Play the online music/games retailer have just introduced PlayDigital with DRM free tracks from EMI and Indies (and probably others to come) at prices below that of iTunes (65p a track and £4.95 for an album). Today HMV have launched their service which offers unlimited Streaming at £5.99 per month as well as track purchases from as low as 49p, although chart prices appear to range between 79p and £1.
20 Wednesday Feb 2008
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The online journal ebizQ are providing a webinar on ‘BAM:The Killer App for CEP’. Although SeeWhy would suggest that this is not exclusively the domain of Complex Event Processing, but any tool around Event Processing with a real-time capacity. It would seem that SeeWhy is not the only organisation that sees how BAM (Business Activity Monitoring) is a natural partner for Event Processing as SeeWhy has produced an extension to its real-time Business Intelligence platform called ‘SeeWhy for JBoss jBPM’.
The webinar is sponsored by SL who provide a real-time style dashboard so will give some basic visibility of business activity, but doesn’t have the richness of SeeWhy’s intelligence or ability to feedback into the source system such as jBPM or event a third party.
17 Sunday Feb 2008
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We’re back from JBoss World in Orlando now – and a few pictures of the trip can be found at Flickr: JBoss World Orlando. A very busy trip indeed with only an hour in the sunshine at the end of the conference before heading back to the airport. For SeeWhy initial impressions are that the conference was a success, but it is still early days to really tell. Thankyou to all who came to see our stand and talk about Event Driven BI and the new jBPM BAM solution. Plus a special thanks to David Barnes at Packt publishing and Matt Cumberlidge the brilliant author of the book Business Process Management with JBoss jBPM.
Links to articles mentioning SeeWhy from JBoss World:
14 Thursday Feb 2008
Posted in Technology
Over the years the number of people who attend conference presentations and have laptops out to take notes has grown and grown – understandable given how laptop prices have dropped. But watching a presentations here at JBoss World Orlando, has left me thinking that there is an opportunity to be had in terms of allowing peoples laptops to show and record what is being shown on the presenters screen, and allow the laptop user to annotate as things went along. After all if you’re in a medium sized conference suite amongst a see of upright laptop monitors it can be hard to see the presenters screen clearly. The basic idea isn’t exactly new either after all web meeting tools such as GoToMeeting pretty much do this. The only difference is that the server would need to run on the presenter’s computer equipment through a local wireless hub.
