I met up with Soundcloud’s UK manager, Dave Haynes earlier today. He was celebrating a venture capital investment of 2.5 million euros, announced today.
I talked to him about how independent music can make the most of the service.
I went to the Open Music Media meeting in London last night, and thought you might be interested in a chat I had with Ian Hogarth from Songkick, which more or less summarises the presentation he gave on the night.
Kind of impressed with my new Flip Ultra video camera too – audible sound in a really noisy environment. Having some codec trouble playing the clips back in VLC on the macbook – but I’ve figured out the Quicktime problem I was having…
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