Miguel Caetano

"Anyone with half a brain can put a song onto Twitter by pasting in the URL for a song. For some, that isn’t enough — they figured out how to paste entire songs into the 140-character Twitter window. A free, open source program called SuperCollider (simplified instructions below) turns the short strings of code into music. It all started when Dan Stowell, a Ph.D. candidate at London’s Queen Mary’s Centre for Digital Music, tweeted “instructions on how to make a sound like waves crashing on the shore” according to a statement. Other students responded in kind, ultimately contributing 22 tweetable songs for a crowdsourced album called sc140, released in conjunction with The Wire magazine." - Miguel Caetano from Bookmarklet

"Imagens, lembranças, sensações se mesclam enquanto ainda tento absorver a notícia de que o DPádua partiu pra batucar o maracatu do Seu Estrelo em outras paragens. Ficamos sem a companhia -- física -- de um grande amigo imaginante, pirata nômade, espírito compartilhante e livre. Posso assegurar que, muito mais do que um ativista, era um praticante apaixonado da filosofia open source, de compartilhamento do conhecimento. E, sim, como o próprio diria, era um cara *buuunito, e cocrante*. Deixo o relato do outro Daniel, o Duende, que exprime da melhor maneira o que eu poderia dizer nesse momento." - Miguel Caetano from Bookmarklet

"Hollywood's top lobbyist is being slammed for telling the government that Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement debates over transparency are a "distraction." But we actually agree with his conclusion: open up the process more—lots more—so we can talk about substance and not procedure." - Miguel Caetano

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"So what's your strategy for the Age of Decline: brawling your way to the top of a jam-packed skyhook, scrapping over a rustier crane, or finding a brainier way to bootstrap prosperity? As a new decade breaks, here's what every decision-maker should be asking: what's the dominant logic of prosperity in our company, industry, and sector: skyhooks, cranes — or bootstraps? Because, when you think about it, there's a big problem with relying on skyhooks and cranes. They can only lift so much, and if they collapse, well — so do you. And it's usually a long way down." - Miguel Caetano

"Numa altura em que se discute a perda de importância do papel, Martim Avillez Figueiredo, administrador da Sojormedia Capital e director do I, defende que só o papel tem a capacidade de criar uma marca de informação. Seis meses após o lançamento do título faz o balanço do projecto, traça os objectivos para a marca e também lança críticas a um mercado onde, por vezes, se esquece que “isto não é um jogo de Monopólio”. “O drama do meio não são os leitores, o drama do meio é que ele está mal gerido”, defende" - Miguel Caetano from Bookmarklet

"Palm (NSDQ: PALM) has pushed out a new version of its operating system to both Pre and Pixi devices, and unlike with updates in the past, the company is no longer supporting the ability to sync seamlessly with iTunes. Previously, each time Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) disabled the feature via an iTunes update, Palm would push out an update of its own to allow its devices to be recognized by iTunes, like an iPod or iPhone. The policy change may mean Palm is finally caving to Apple’s strong arm, or perhaps is only following directions from an industry forum that oversees USB connections." - Miguel Caetano from Bookmarklet

"Daniel Ek, founder and CEO of music streaming platform Spotify, has said that he is confident that the service will launch in the U.S. in the first half of 2010. Speaking at U.K. industry confab the Media Festival, where he was interviewed by media consultant and festival chairman Peter Bazalgette, Ek brushed aside criticism from certain sectors of the American music industry concerning the proposed U.S. launch of Spotify. He responded with a definitive "yes" when asked if the breakthrough would happen within the next six months. " - Miguel Caetano

"The telecom and music industry bodies in Japan will reportedly implement a system to automatically check cell phone Web sites for illegal music files, in order to prevent the files from being uploaded or downloaded in breach of copyright law. The system was designed by the Council for Countermeasures Against Mobile Music Piracy, a group set up in September, and comprised of the four major telecom operators, including NTT Docomo Inc., SoftBank Mobile Corp. and KDDI Corp., as well as music industry bodies such as the Recording Industry Assn. of Japan (RIAJ) and JASRAC." - Miguel Caetano

"A 6 man "startup" was one of the highlights of Qualcomm's first European R&D showcase today. Skifta is a private P2P network for media sharing - much like Orb. There's a small daemon that runs on Linux, Mac or PC and this sprays music, photos and other movies around different devices such as games consoles, TVs, your mobile or work PC. Like Orb, but unlike Opera's built-in browser webserver Unite, Skifta is locked down to prohibit free-for-all media sharing - but that's something third party services with music licenses could then build on top of it. Third parties can use their own authentication. It's a reminder that the technology is all in place for great p2p music services - but the licenses aren't forthcoming." - Miguel Caetano from Bookmarklet