Bitvibe

I love this animate, adapted from Daniel Pink’s booked “Drive” that illustrates the hidden truths behind what motivates us. It really connects to what we’re doing at Bitvibe.

You can check out a full presentation from Dan here: Read More

Sachin Agarwal, cofound of Posterous and Final Cut Pro expert was correct when he stated:

People think they are entitled to free music. But history has shown that no one can give you media for free. Illegal sites have tried and failed (Napster, allofmp3). And even ad based services are switching to pay (Hulu). Lala’s model was interesting, a nice experiment, but it was bound to fail.

You can read his whole blog post here.

Apple has proven that people are willing to pay for personal use of songs they love.  iTunes made it super convenient to get songs and simple to be legal.

At Bitvibe we’re following Apple’s lead in believing that music and other media isn’t free. We’re busy developing a super cool way to provide a wide variety of legal licensing of all content in our marketplace. Can’t wait to show you!

SXSW Interactive conference showcases the bleeding edge tech ideas that are being pioneered today. Sean Cunningham from the award-winning interactive documentary series Docublogger interviews Ron Wikso and me about Bitvibe.

I’m excited that our friends at Lilac Writer have created an excellent Pro Tools video tutorial using the Hip Hop Anonymous drum loops available in our Bitvibe Marketplace. The video shows how to assemble a drum part to match an instrumental groove using the Elastic Audio feature on the track to make the drum part match the project tempo. Check this out:

LilacWriter is online collaboration software for the professional songwriter. Simple tools focused around lyric projects allow you to organize rewrites. Exclusive rhyming look-up technology finds less cliched near rhymes to help you express your ideas in new and personal ways. Comments, Files and To-dos give you everything you need to collaborate with co-writers or you band – next door or around the world.

This week we drove down to San Antonio from Austin to meet with folks from Rackspace at their corporate castle. We’ve been fans of Rackspace since the beginning of Bitvibe. We have massive storage needs for our marketplace. Rackspace is providing the infrastructure to technically help us make it happen. When you hear people talking about cloud computing, that’s what we’re using.

I’m posting about Rackspace for two reasons. Read More

The huge music festival South by Southwest is rolling into Bitvibe’s backyard in March 12-21, 2010. Here are some of the bands we’ll be checking out!

!!!, The 88, 65daysofstatic, 8Ball & MJG, A Sunny Day in Glasgow, Aa, Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO, Acrylics, Adam Green, Adventure, Afghan Raiders, Alberta Cross, Alina Simone, Alpha Rev, An Horse, Andrew W.K., The Antlers, Anita Tijoux, Anti-Pop Consortium, Anya Marina, Apostle of Hustle, Archie Bronson Outfit, Arms, Art vs Science, The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, Athlete, Attack Attack!, Avi Buffalo, B-Real (of Cypress Hill), Bachelorette, Bajofondo, The Band of Heathens, Band of Horses, Band of Skulls, Balkan Beat Box, Basia Bulat, Bear Hands, Bear In Heaven, The Beauvilles, The Besnard Lakes, Big Sam’s Funky Nation, Billy Bragg, The Bitters, Blackbone Child, Kathleen Blackwell, The Black Atlantic, The Black Box Revelation, Black Feelings, Black Milk, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Blue Scholars, Boats, Born Ruffians, Bowerbirds, Bowling For Soup, The Boxer Rebellion, Brasstronaut, Brazos, Broken Bells, Broken Records, Broken Social Scene, Butch Walker, Butterfly Explosion, Califone, Camper Van Beethoven , DJ Car Stereo (Wars), Casiokids, The Cave Singers, Cheap Trick, Read More

We met the nice folks from Noteflight at NAMM 2010 in Anaheim. Chatted with Joe Berkovitz, President and Elizabeth Gazda, Business Development, again today.

Noteflight is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They’re dedicated to reinventing the way that people create, share and use written music. They provide an online service for written music. Noteflight is a full-featured application to edit, display and play back music notation in a standard web browser, integrated in an online library of musical scores that anyone can publish, link to, or embed. Nice people. Cool service. Check them out!

Here’s an example: Read More

Watched by Arthur E. on February 11 2010:

Derek Sivers is right. We’re seeing a crowd forming at at Bitvibe. Come join us!

This was the first year for Bitvibe to be at Winter NAMM all 4-days. We appreciate so many of you taking the time to talk with us. It was fun talking about and showing what we’ve developed. It was exciting to get such a cool response from almost everyone. We ran into one naysayer “company” that wasn’t thrilled that an Austin start-up (us!) is blazing a trail by developing a digital goods marketplace. This company basically said we couldn’t build a marketplace because it goes against their policies for dealers and distributors.  Read More

I’m excited about attending Winter NAMM 2010 in Anaheim. This will be only my 2nd Winter NAMM. I think my biz partner and Co-Founder of Bitvibe, Ron Wikso has attended at least 25.

We’re both excited because we”ll be introducing the Bitvibe at NAMM to a whole new group of people that don’t know about us, yet.

We’ll be showing that Bitvibe allows creative people to buy and sell any kind of digital content, including digital components that other people might be able to use in their work, with absolutely no upfront costs! Free to join. Free to upload products and you set your own price for each of your products. When your products sell, you keep 80% of the purchase price…it’s that simple. Very cool.

Here is what co-founder Ron Wikso had to say users can do with Bitvibe. Read More