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What can the future do for you? Just came back from one great week in Korea. Main reason for my trip was the Lift Asia Conference which happened on Jeju Island. The conference explored how entertainment technologies are now reaching far beyond simple leisure, offering solutions to fields like education, health or entertainment.

We definitly have to look up for those oriental markets when it comes to understand the near future of our own markets. As china is already in a post piracy mode, we can discover great ways to publish and monetize cultural contents totaly out of the loop of the old media industry  models.

Nice presentation from Bernie Cho explaining the Korean music ecosytem. Itunes is almost M.I.A. Main digital music players are Cyworld, Melon and bugs. Both LG and Samsung are about to operate they own digital stores before “allowing” Apple to launch their own local operation. Keep in mind that Itunes would mean Iphones sales and therefore free wifi access to tons of servicesin a pretty much closed market …

For the record, Bernie is also manager of Tablo who has an awesome new album out now.

Korean Geek scene.

 Giant Hi-top in front of an ABC-MART store in Seoul

Crazy sashimi

And i even found time to surf also this cool korean local spot that ended up to be pretty fun. 

Big shout out at Asiance team (Olivier, Marie, Bosun) Fred @ mixin,Didier @ alpict, The great Ms J, Laurent Haug and Lift team, Benjamin Jeffe, Gold Dragon …

NARM 2009 State Of The media Industry: Michael Masnick

Been playing brazilian music this week at the Fairtilizer Thursdays in Geneva. Made me want to do a tape so here it is: a samba and bossa mixtape. A bit of classics blend with some rare germs. hope you will enjoy it.

Week at the office was intense. Traffic is going up and Fairtilizer.com had some down time. Working on scalability and its already better.

We recently had one clic twitter and facebook integration on track pages and more and more artists are using those services with public or private URLs including links to download, to buy etc .... Quite a fast and easy way to deliver music to medias, fans and friends.

And here some new music URLs to tweet !
Interns at FoolsGold made a nice playlist , Blackjoy did a disco edit of Late in the evening from Paul Simon, and a new interesting Daft Punk cover. While Birdy nam nam contest is ending tomorow i think, and there is a Von Bondies cover contest as well where you can win a Gibson.

i am not sure what to think about this one, but the iphone apps business is booming and its not over yet.

“Digital drug” IPhone Application ? Music is awful but the product is awesome, amazing presentation start at 2:09 mn. You can download the full version for $2.99 here, or you can try out the free version

I cant wait for a Logic studio version of this !