If you want your own tracks or albums for sale on the Internet, you need a so-called aggregator. They open the doors to online stores like Amazon, iTunes or Musicload.

At SellMusic.org you can apply for a trial account, so you can publish 3 songs worldwide for free.

In German-speaking countries probaply everybody has seen this video. Two chefs report on German cuisine. Since the upload of the video, the clip came to almost 2 million views. Especially noteworthy because one days later, the same video has been re-uploaded (views again: over 1.6 million). We have received some interesting data on the YouTube clip that we want to provide to our readers: Upload date: 12 October 2006 Views: 1939718 Ratings: 4374

http://www.kickstarter.com/
New, you have to be US based.

http://www.fundable.com/

http://www.indiegogo.com/about/howitworks

http://www.artistshare.com/home/getting_started.aspx

http://www.indiemaverick.net/
Almost 2 years and they only have 119 projects of which only 1 got fully funded.

http://www.chipin.com/
(Widgets possible)

In a note to clients Thursday, Piper Jaffray’s senior analyst offered a scenario by which Apple would enter the cut-throat TV market by 2011 with an Apple-branded television set with digital video recording and home media functions (music, movies, games, interactive TV) built-in.

“Yes, TV hardware is a challenging business if you don’t change the rules of the game,” Munster writes, “but we see potential for Apple to offer best-in-class software and hardware and charge a premium.”

The roadmap to Apple television (as opposed to Apple TV), as Munster sees it:

1. A new Apple TV set-top box within the next few months, with a TV imput and DVR built in. “With the popularity of ad-based internet TV (Hulu.com) and subscription models (Netflix’s Watch Instantly), we believe a-la-carte (iTunes) video purchases have lost share against other video models in recent months. As such, we believe Apple is exploring a subscription-based offering for its TV content in iTunes.”
2. An iTunes TV Pass within the next year. “Apple could leverage its deep library of content with many network and cable channel content owners to provide unlimited access to a sub-library of its TV shows for a standard monthly fee ($30 to $40 per month). Such a product would effectively replace a consumer’s monthly cable bill (~$85/month) and offer access to current and older episodes of select shows on select channels.”
3. An Apple television set within the next two years that could wirelessly sync with iPods, iPhones and Macs. “Such a device would command a premium among a competitive field of budget TVs; we believe Apple could differentiate itself with software that makes home entertainment simple and solves a pain point for consumers (complicated TV and component systems).”

As evidence for Apple’s interest for pushing deeper into the living room, Munster cites: COO Tim Cook’s statement last month that the company will continue to invest in Apple TV because “we fundamentally believe there is something there for us in the future”; patents covering digital video recording; and a five-year, $500 million partnership with LG to produce LCD screens.

Munster notes that Apple currently controls an addressable user base of more than 65 million iTunes users and has sold more than 48 million iPhones and iPod touches that could be used as TV remotes or interactive TV game controllers.

“The argument that Apple will not enter the television market because prices have declined by ~70% in the past three years,” he concludes, “is a similar argument used to conclude Apple would not enter the cell phone market, given phones had seen similar price declines. The bottom line, 10 million HDTV’s sold in the US a year is a real market, and if history repeats itself, Apple will find a way to compete in a commoditized market with a premium priced product.”

Munster expects Apple to sell 6.6 million Apple TVs in calendar 2009, up from an estimated 2.1 million in 2008 — an estimate of 3X growth that he believes may be conservative. By his calculation, every addition 1 million units Apple sells adds $.03 to Apple’s EPS.

Source: CNN.com

One cannot only hear with ones ears. Some people feel the sounds with their skin or with their hearts because their sense of hearing doesnt function. In the Venezuelan city of Barquisimeto, deaf children not only learn how to play instruments, but also how to sing in sign language. The fact that the children do not hear voices is only one of the many handicaps when one lives at the edge of society. However, at the music school they discover a world that is open to each one of them.
The film observes the everyday lives and development of its protagonists in a precise and intimate way. Music as the way out and as a chance for those who practice it.

Language: Spanish with English/German/Spanish Subtitles for hearing impaired

Director: Stefan Bohun
DOP: Gerald Kerkletz
Editor: Uschi Lösch
Sound: Atanas Tcholakov
Producer: Hannes Kreuzer

amobeethoven.com

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tScQIodfaiU[/youtube]

Nohelia: „In order to know where we´re going we have to know where we come from. What do you want to become when you´re grown up?“

Children: “Football player, soldier or drug baron“

Language: Spanish with English/German Subtitles

Director: Stefan Bohun
DOP: Judith Hasleder
Editor: Julia Drack
Producer/Sound: Hannes Kreuzer

nohelia.info

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luP2yZLya_Q[/youtube]

Microsoft was said to seriously interested in to have YouTube. Well, Google got the award and in 2006 was 1.65 billion U.S. dollars for this competence. The problem in fact is, however, that for a long time is not clear whether this investment ever comes back. The latest figures from YouTube to help as well not really. The analyst Spencer Wang of Credit Suisse expects 240.9 million U.S. dollars in revenue around 613.3 million U.S. dollars spending. The largest part of which must be spent for traffic, the rest is divided in royalties, hardware and personnel. It is therefore an estimated loss of 470 million U.S. dollars. Officially confirmed these figures are not. The question, therefore, when it already has Microsoft failed to offer YouTube Paroli, who will? If it is not YouTube itself creates serious business figures to be delivered, then who? What problems that digital distribution has to gibts here .