Eric Wahlforss

Stevie Wonder With Talkbox Goes Daft Punk

Eric — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:47:58 +0000

He’s still one of the greatest.

SoundCloud on Music Panel in Hamburg this Thursday

Eric — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:35:36 +0000

I’m travelling a bit these days. Last week London (AWS event slides), this week SIME (We won a price!), and next week there’s a music panel in Hamburg which I think could be very interesting (Here’s a pre-panel interview).

Starting in 2006 Peter Schiff goes prescient

Eric — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:44:21 +0000

[Via Signal Vs Noise]

SoundCloud Presentation @ AWS Startup Event

Eric — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:46:19 +0000

I’m currently in London meeting labels, startups and music people. Yesterday I did a short presentation on SoundCloud at AWS startup event where I talked a little bit about our infrastructure also. On request, here are the slides:

SoundCloud Presentation @ AWS Startup Event London

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Alex 5 minute presentation of SoundCloud at Web 2 Expo

Eric — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:44:00 +0000

Web2Expo SoundCloud from Alexander Ljung on Vimeo.

Needless to say, Alex leveled the competition…

MC Hammer is on SoundCloud

Eric — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:50:07 +0000

It’s hammertime!

Cappuccino!

Eric — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:07:51 +0000

Spent this weekend researching Cappuccino, a new web app framework from the guys who built 280 Slides. I built a simple application and didn’t write a single line of javascript, css or html. And yet I could code and reload my browser and see changes reflected immediately. I think something like this is indeed the future for developing web apps.

Nerd music in the Cloud

Eric — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:08:26 +0000

To celebrate the nerdiest week in Berlin for a long time, here are two amusing tracks from the Cloud!

20080202 ruby on rails by cardwalker

Webdesigner live by markscheibe

Sunday Music

Eric — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:34:09 +0000

markus guentner das vergessene (affin 016) by AFFIN

Virreina Bar by thestoner

Still by patternbased

SoundCloud + Creative Commons = True

Eric — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:58:11 +0000

I’ve been too busy to even blog about the fact that SoundCloud no longer is an invite-only site. It’s fully open since last Friday, and if you’ve got anything to do with music you should really go and check it out. It will make your life easier.

Since Friday we’ve been in a whirlwind of sorts, trying to keep up with the masses of emails that keep pouring in from excited musicians (there are so many of you!) who finally have a decent place to receive, send and distribute their music.

Monday we launched a new Facebook app which takes advantage of the new Facebook design. Needless to say, it’s mega-viral.

And today we’re on the front page of creativecommons.org with our just-launched CC licensing support for SoundCloud! Our team took great care in getting the implementation and the UI right. And the result is really, really slick. In fact, I think SoundCloud has the potential of becoming the place for CC-licensed music and audio on the web. We will work hard for it.

This also means I could finally change the license for my own track Paradigm Shift, featuring a sample from a random internet stream where Lawrence Lessig speaks about Creative Commons, into an Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike CC license (only had it in the description earlier). Go ahead and remix it. There are already plenty of really nice mixes to check out.

Paradigm Shift by Forss

And we don’t stop. Tomorrow BarCamp Berlin starts. We sponsor it and Alex, Henrik and I will be there building apps on top of our API and talking about audio on the web. And next week we have Web 2.0 expo (we present on Tuesday, and organize a party on Wednesday). In fact there’s a whole web week with tons of stuff going on!

Very much looking forward, and hope to see you there!