I spent an hour in San Francisco this afternoon on a panel at Bandwidth, a conference about the intersection of music and technology, a subject I wrote about in Darknet. Fellow panelists included Maryrose Dunton, Director of Product Management, YouTube; David Todd, VP of Content, eyespot and Sudhin Shahani, CEO, Musicane; moderator was Kevin Crouse, Product Manager, MP3.com. Not sure if the session was podcast or videotaped. About 150 people were in the audience.
We chatted about the major music labels, business models, user-generated video, independent music, mobile platforms, ecommerce and where all this is headed. Maryrose Dunton was particularly perceptive about YouTube’s lynchpin role — and responsibilities — at the center of the personal media revolution.
Also bumped into Ted Cohen, who left EMI Music to co-found his own consultancy; author-consultant Kelli Richards; Brian Zisk of the Future of Music Coalition; Robert Kaye of MusicBrainz; attorney Colette Vogele; Morty Wiggins and Shane Tobin of Outhink, and several others. A pretty good gathering.
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