Just want to show you there’s many great music site online. This is my fav site to listen, get music online, or just to find information about some new artist. Some of them are new service I liked to shared.

• Last.fm, and their scrobbler idea. Every track you play including track you play in your computer or iPod (scrobbling) automatically fills your library and will tell your Last.fm profile something about what you like. It can connect you to other people who like what you like – and recommend songs from their music collections and yours too. Now they still revisited their plan to charge users €3.00 per month for listening to the radio in countries other than the USA, UK and Germany. I hope this not gonna happen.
• MySpace, you know it’s a social networking site, but many (indie) musician introduced their music there.
• Yahoo Music, with its content from YouTube (video), Last.fm, Flickr (photo), and Pandora (radio, US only), lyrics, and features affiliate links to iTunes Store and Amazon downloads alongside its partnership with Real’s rival Rhapsody (US only) service
• Vevo, new service by Universal Music Group and Google to provide Universal’s professional music videos online
• SeeqPod, which was bullied into bankruptcy by record industry. Some other site like this, just heat !t, and new release MusicDemon. This is the place where you search some music and play it online (some with video from youtube).
• Etree. If  you got good headphones or speakers, etree archive provide you the highest quality live concerts in a lossless, downloadable format, they got 129 MB song.. huh..
• beeMP3, AirMp3, even my campus internal MP3 Search provide so many downloadable mp3 music.
• For full album music, go to warez site. My fav: SG, katz, and warez-bb.

FYI: While you read this story, 694000 songs were downloaded illegally. For you leecher, don’t forget the Pirate’s Rule.

Intermezzo: I have more than 1000 artist in my library and scrobbling more than 4000 track today in last.fm since I active using it in March 6, 2009. Yay?

Next data came from video same as previous post, Did You Know 2008 Latest Edition:

• Facebook took  2 years to reach a market audience of 50 million
• There are over 200 million registered users on MySpace. If myspace were a country, it would be the 5th-largest in the world (between indonesia and brazil)

Friendster was founded in 2002, MySpace 2003, and Facebook 2004 (not long after one another). All of them are web 2.0 site. Web 2.0 refers to a perceived second generation of web development and design, that facilitates communication, secure information sharing, interoperability, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities, hosted services, and applications (you can also develop yours for the web).

Friendster is focused on helping people meet new friends and they started to write each other testimonial. Friendster was founded by computer programmer Jonathan Abrams in 2002 in Mountain View, California before the creation, launch and adoption of MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn and others. After the 2002 launch of Friendster, several eUniverse employees with Friendster accounts saw its potential and decided to mimic the more popular features of the social networking website, in August 2003, and later known as MySpace (Wikipedia). Later, MySpace have more feature than friendster like music or mobile access, and became America’s number one. Now, MySpace still great a site for musician to introduce their music I think, especially indie music. So if there is no other site can provide better service for that feature, MySpace will never die.

(FYI: MySpace syndrome didn’t appear in Indonesia. After Friendster, people starting to use Facebook, I think it’s because our bad internet penetration. We use some web service after foreign people get bored with it.)

Facebook now take over its competitor’s visitor. So… what makes Facebook so great? I think it is the ‘network, interest and multimedia’ feature. You can meet people in your network, like same city, same college, or meet people who have same interest with you like music, or tv show. I think it also have complete ‘multimedia’ feature, or this ‘Art of Listening, Learning, and Sharing’ feature. Facebook have it all!

It’s Facebook time for everybody. But who know what comes next? Web 3.0? Nothing last forever.

Last month US  White House has authorized $7.2 billion in broadband stimulus bucks. Now, Australia do the same. Ozzie prime minister Kevin Rudd has announced what will be one of the biggest government-sanctioned nationwide broadband initiatives in history: an A$43 billion plan to bring a fat 100mbps fiberpipe to 90% of Australians.

And we still waiting in Indonesia, who will have initiative to do the same? And where-when we can get so much money?

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Cool script, javascript, BallDroppings. You can make the ball bounce anywhere you want. You can also adjust ball speed and gravity.

You should try this!

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Last.fm announced that in all other countries beside United States, United Kingdom and Germany, listening to Last.fm Radio will require a subscription of €3.00 per month, starting at Monday, March 30. There will be a 30 track free trial, and we hope this will convince people to subscribe and keep listening to the radio. And AFAIK, many tracks in Last.fm just preview track, about 30 second. Everything else on Last.fm (scrobbling, recommendations (can’t listen to this too), charts, biographies, events, videos etc.) will remain free in all countries, like it is now.

Suck! Just like other web service I used, Yahoo, Flickr, I have no plan to pay a premium service or any subscription. From now on, I have to search everywhere and take a look at the new sound I found.

US  White House has authorized $7.2 billion in broadband stimulus bucks. The broadband stimulus has two faces, aptly enough: the National Telecommunications and Information Administration will have $4.7 billion to play with—the bulk of it for grants and loans under a new Broadband Technology Opportunities Program—while another $2.5 billion goes to the Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service program. [Ars Technica]

Meanwhile, in UK, Virgin Media will offer 100 to 150Mbps broadband speeds up to two years before BT completes its rival fibre network. BT has said its fibre network will hit the first crop of UK cities by early 2010 and will be complete by 2012. FYI, Virgin currently offers a top speed of 50Mbps while BT is pledging 40 to 60Mb. [BBC]

How about Indonesia? We still trying to make it less expensive, so it can reach more people. In 2008, there were around 25 million internet users in Indonesia. It’s only about 10 percent of the population of Indonesia. [liputan6]

And we only have low speed internet access: Bad Connection! Rp 828.000 / 70 US$ for up to 1 Mbps connection.

I found two site today, using their cool script. I can’t get it though.

The first one is blahbleh.com with molecools project. They made a 3D Javascript molecule simulator. For example, benzene. In that site you can grab an atom, rotate it, bond it to make molecule. I don’t understand the chemistry.

Second one labs.ideeinc.com, with multicolr project. In that site, you can search image in Flickr based in their colour. You can pick up to 10 color to increase its prominence.

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Yeah.. I get it from study created by Professor Leonard Waverman, London Business School, and economic consulting firm LECG, commissioned by Nokia Siemens Networks (connectivityscorecard.org).

From 25 Resource and efficiency driven economies countries, Indonesia is in the 21th rank. Our neighbor country, Malaysia is in the first rank, with score 7.07. For Innovation driven economies countries USA is in the first rank, score 7.71.

Connection really bad here, just like the explanation in the website:

“Indonesia’s low ranking on the 2009 Connectivity Scorecard reflects its poor showing on almost every performance metric.  Broadband and Internet infrastructure are weak, and while mobile and PSTN coverage are better, they are still near the bottom of the sample.  The somewhat high proportion of the population with mobile coverage is the only bright spot in when examining consumer infrastructure.  In terms of consumer usage, excellent literacy and solid gender equality with regards to internet access are also positive points.”

There is no need to explain the methodology. Whatever methodology is chosen, will give the same result: bad connection!

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Right now, it’s still closed registration. You must sign up to get invitation, so you can make your own domain.

With this service you can connect with other popular service in the internet: Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, add a feed, import contact from Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, or your local address book. You can display all of it in you domain and connect with your friend there. You can either you make it public, closed for your friend or for work. It’s also a open id provider.

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