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I am not a big fan of David Letterman, but this iPhone top ten list is funny.

Cashmusic folks having been engineering  the technical architecture for what Amanda Palmer most eloquently discusses in this video.  What an inspiring, optimistic, creative and passionate  position to promote to her fellow musicians.    She is totally correct, it is a time for celebration.  We also believe it is going to be much better when artists rely directly on their audience for support. Putting a middle person in between your work and audience is an incredible old idea that doesn’t scale with social webs capabilities. Take advantage of the Interwebs and be happy.  Find out more Amanda Palmer and Cash Music Open Source Foundation

Cashmusic totally agrees with Thom and instead of just talking about the obvious Cashmusic has started an open source foundation that will be providing software, social tools and hosting capabilities to help both young and established artists with solutions for the new digital music industry. Some might ask why open source? We believe that open source software makes Cashmusic solution owned buy by the community which will give the software and services a long life that is controlled by it’s members and users. We have witnessed many start-ups that create software for the musician community, but tend to fail or get acquired by bigger corporate organization. We are dedicate to creating value for musicians in this paradigm shift in the music industry.

In a rare interview, Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has warned young musicians not to tie themselves to the “sinking ship” of the music industry, suggesting it will soon collapse. The singer said it is “only a matter of time — months rather than years — before the music business establishment completely folds,” he said in an interview for a school textbook.

He advises musicians to self-release music rather than yearn for a major label contract, suggesting the loss of the mainstream music industry will be “no great loss to the world.”

His group, who were previously signed to EMI, shook the industry after offering a ‘pay what you want’ system for the digital release of ‘In Rainbows’ in 2007. The model has since become a common option for groups selling their music online with stores such as BandCamp.com.

Although the concept of the whole music establishment folding may seem implausible, it could be agreed that the annual deluge of music graduates often find they have few full-time prospects. The RIAA report that music piracy is now costing 71,060 US jobs and $2.7 billion (£1.86 billion) in workers’ earnings every year. However, hard times have encouraged some of the most prolific music movements in history. The modern affordability of recording equipment and global distribution could be the factors that prove Thom Yorke right.

From: Spinner.com

Ten years ago my good friend Scott Yara and I had a dinner in LA where  I agreed to join him on his early vision of a start-up that we didn’t even have name or solid product vision for.  We eventually came up Metapa which stood for Media To All Places and our product vision was a data platform for digital media.  We raised about 15MM from investors.  Ed Sims lead our first round and hung in there for all ten years.   After many rounds and big product changes Metapa actually successfully changed into a smarter and better idea called Greenplum.  And now after ten long years of amazing hard work Scott and team created a really intelligent software product that IT groups find remarkably helpful and EMC agrees by stepping up and acquiring this rising star – Greenplum.

I have been impressed and admire Scott’s ability to start and run Metapa and Greenplum through the dark days of 2001 and 2008.  I have learned really important founder lessons from working with Scott: never give up and great people are hard to find.   It was an honor to be a co-founding member of the Metapa team.  Bravo Greenplum.

There has been so many killer programming libraries released over the past five years it is hard to keep up with and have a chance to play with.   I have very been impressed by node.js. What a genius idea and execution. Bravo

An example of a web server written in Node which responds with “Hello World” for every request.

var http = require('http');
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
  res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
  res.end('Hello World\n');
}).listen(8124, "127.0.0.1");
console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:8124/');