After an ‘interesting’ flight to Dubrovnik, Amsterdam-Brussels-Zagreb-Dubrovnik is not my idea of fun especially if your flight is delayed leaving you less than 10 minutes to catch a connected flight. Anyway, I made it to the iSummit. Thanks to the nice iCommons organisation team I’m at a nice hotel and had a short but refreshing night.

At this moment I’m sitting at the iCommons keynote kickoff talk. I just saw the people behind this hilarious flick called Star Wreck give an interesting talk. The introduction was a nice opener in which one of their filmcharacters introduced them to the audience. After that Sylvan Zimmer was talking about their project Jamendo. I’ve met Sylvan on several occasions and their project is really nice and expanding. Their project is somewhat of an example for our project Simuze and we hope to be as successful as they are. John Buckman of Magnatune gave a talk in which he’s explaining the background about Magnatune an online music label. They apperently do A&R (as in they pick the music out of the demos sent) and sell this online. He also explains that one of their main aspects of their business model is the licensing music to commercial companies (as in business2business) and the other aspects is selling music to consumers. Interesting observation by him is the fact that the money is in the b2b. The last speaker is Chiaki Hayashi who gave a talk about loftwork which as far as I understood is a ‘creatives network’ a sort of platform for creative people to distribute their work. Sadly the website is in Japanese and therefor I can’t find out more about it.

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