From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V4 #114 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Friday, April 16 1999 Volume 04 : Number 114 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: Alloy: more news ["Ulfstedt, Louise" ] Re: Alloy: more news [RThurF@aol.com] Alloy: another alliance [RThurF@aol.com] Alloy: the NYC MP3 conference [RThurF@aol.com] Alloy: even more news [RThurF@aol.com] Re: Alloy: the NYC MP3 conference [Tim_Dunn.JBA_HEATHROW.SPL_EXTERNAL@jba] Alloy: applause to Beatnik, & windsurfing question... [RThurF@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 09:13:30 +0300 From: "Ulfstedt, Louise" Subject: RE: Alloy: more news Woah,...just what I was thinking, Brian! I wonder if we could get a few of those hats on the cheap now? Hands up anyone who wants one,...how many shall we make an order for? ::sigh:: I liked headspace too,.... ho hum. Lissu > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Clayton [SMTP:stemish@lns.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 15, 1999 6:38 AM > To: alloy@smoe.org > Subject: Re: Alloy: more news > > > > > a little about the name change.. > > Good heavens! What became of the name "Headspace?" I rather liked > it. I wonder if the domain beatnik.com became available or if its > previous owner transferred it to Headspace (out of the goodness of > their heart, of course... :) > > But the big question: Is there any Headspace merchandise left? > I never got one of those caps... > > BC > > --- > Brian Clayton "The main motive for going beyond the Rim... > stemish@lns.com there's a heck of a big Taco Bell out there..." > -- jms > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 07:57:24 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: more news In a message dated 4/15/99 12:39:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time, stemish@lns.com writes: :: But the big question: Is there any Headspace merchandise left? I never got one of those caps... :: you must try for one, they're REALLY comfy!! Now I'll have to get a Beatnik one too so I won't be behind the times :) Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 08:45:58 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: another alliance This is extremely cool news, which goes along with something I myself wanted to try once I get that page of mine up & running. I'm very excited to see what will become of all of this! Robin T Digital Origin Adds Music to EditDV Through New Alliance With Beatnik, Inc MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 15, 1999-- Arrangement Opens Up Interactive Music Library to Users of EditDV With Options to Audition, Select & Buy Music/Audio Clips for Use in their DV Video Projects Digital Origin (Nasdaq:DODV) announced today a strategic alliance with Beatnik, Inc., the industry leader in interactive audio technology and creator of the highly advanced Beatnik Player 2.0, which will make it easier for EditDV users to add musical dimension to their DV projects. EditDV users will now have the ability to choose, select and purchase music and sound from Beatnik's huge library, the companies announced today. Beatnik Inc., formerly known as Headspace Inc., was founded by musical impresario Thomas Dolby Robertson. Beatnik's technology and music libraries can be accessed interactively via their web site, streamlining the process for users needing licensed music and sound. "This is a natural fit for our product and a wonderful enhancement for Digital Origin's EditDV," said Lorraine Hariton, President and CEO, of Beatnik. "The Beatnik Player 2.0 enables EditDV users to experience the new world of web audio with interactive music and sound right from their desktop." EditDV users can bring music to their editing desktop by clicking a button on the main EditDV toolbar. When the "Get Beatnik Music" button is clicked, EditDV opens the user's web browser and connects to Beatnik's home page where the musical menu is provided. The entire transaction happens instantaneously from within EditDV via the web. Users can audition in real-time, buy on-line and import the licensed music immediately into their DV project. "We're delivering what we've been promising by putting more creative power on the desktop of the DV movie-maker," said Brady O. Bruce, Digital Origin's vice president of marketing. "By combining the most awarded nonlinear editor for DV with the vision, technology, and musical wealth at Beatnik, and the web's accessibility and power, we're creating a bold new model for digital movie-making," he added. "This is a powerful new paradigm." Beatnik will make its musical library web site available to EditDV users in third quarter 1999. Digital Origin will add the "Get Beatnik Music" to EditDV for Macintosh and Windows at that time. From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Beatnik delivers interactive audio software technology, its flagship product Beatnik and musical content for the web. The Beatnik audio engine has been licensed to an expanding family of strategic partners, including Sun Microsystems, Oracle/NCI, Intel, NetObjects, Macromedia, Be, Inc. Its Rich Music Format (RMF) is a platform-independent standard for music and audio on the Internet. By coupling expert engineering skills with an expanded catalogue of musical content, Beatnik is dedicated to realizing new possibilities for interactive music and audio within multimedia on the Internet. Beatnik was formed in 1993 with a team of musical innovators and world-renowned visionary, musician and composer Thomas Dolby Robertson. Digital Origin is the leading developer of a full suite of digital video (DV) products that serve the complete range of DV camcorder owners' needs: still capture, motion capture, non-linear editing and post-production. Its products not only increase productivity and enhance existing creative processes, but also make possible new applications of digital media. Digital Origin Inc. is headquartered at 460 Middlefield Rd., Mountain View, CA 94043. Its products are available through a worldwide network of Digital Origin authorized resellers, system integrators and distributors. Digital Origin may also be reached at 650/404-6000 or at its web site www.digitalorigin.com. --30--ao/sf* azs/sf CONTACT: Digital Origin Andrea Nelson, 650/404-6235 press@digitalorigin.com or Crowley Communications Pamela Crowley, 408/377-8384 pamc@pacbell.net or Fleishman-Hillard, Inc. Tiffany Pence, 415/356-1023 pencet@fleishman.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 10:48:02 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: the NYC MP3 conference For everyone's information, here's an update on the events to take place at the MP3 conference in NY this April 24th (which I now definitely will not be able to attend, short of some miracle happening :( It sounds like it's going to be really good too! Given the subject matter, I wonder if there's any chance of a live broadcast via the web? Robin T New York Chapter of the Recording Academy Announces Line-up for Downloadable Music Conference On April 24 NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--April 15, 1999-- Top Executives From The Music Industry Join Previously Announced: Thomas "Dolby" Robertson & Mp3.Com's Michael Robertson The New York Chapter of the Recording Academy(R) today announced the panels and participants for its April 24 "Downloadable Music: Liberation or Exploitation" conference in New York on Saturday April 24th. The panelists represent the key players in the world of downloadable music. In addition to the previously announced Thomas "Dolby" Robertson and Michael Robertson (President and CEO of MP3.com), additional participants include: Richard Conlon, Vice President/New Technologies -- BMI; Joyce Eastman, Vice President/New Ventures Group -- Lucent Technologies; Phil Galdston, hit songwriter & producer; Steven Marks, Senior Vice President -- RIAA; Larry Miller, COO -- a2b music; Marc Morgenstern, Senior Vice President/Strategic Development -- ASCAP; Susan Nunziata, Managing Editor -- Billboard; Jason Olim, CEO -- Cdnow/N2K; Jeffrey Patterson, President -- IUMA; Charles Sanders, Vice President -- NMPA; Marc Schiller, co-founder -- Electric Artists; David Watkins, President -- RioPort.com; and Dick Wingate, Vice President/Content, Development & Label Relations -- Liquid Audio. The conference will feature two panels: -- Tech Talk: A panel of technical experts will discuss the latest up-to-the-minute developments in the exciting and fast-changing world of downloadable music. This is a must for anyone who wants and needs to know the "ins and outs" of what technology is out there for the recording industry and public to use. -- Can Everybody Win? A panel of creative, business and legal experts will go head-to-head to discuss the contentious and fascinating issues that inspire and divide the recording community about its future with downloadable music. "Downloadable Music: Liberation or Exploitation" will take place on Saturday, April 24, starting at 11 am at Webster Hall (125 East Eleventh Street in New York City). Advance admission is $15 for Recording Academy members and students and $25 for non-members and can be purchased by calling 212/245-5440 ext. 360, by fax at 212/489-0394 or e-mail to downloadable@grammy.com. Most major credit cards are accepted. Registrations the day of the event are available for $20 (Academy members and students) and $30 (non-members). Tony Visconti, New York Chapter president, commented that "As a record producer myself, I have been more and more involved with the Internet. What makes this conference special is that, for the first time in New York, all the major players will be here to look at all sides of issues such as technological options, copyright protection and marketing opportunities for the creators and consumers of music." The event is part of the New York Chapter's Millennium Technology series which will include similar conferences on DVD in June and Home Studio Projects in September. Established in 1957, the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc., also known as the Recording Academy, is dedicated to improving the quality of life and cultural condition for music and its makers. An organization of more than 13,000 musicians, producers and other recording professionals, the Recording Academy is internationally known for the GRAMMY(R) Awards and is responsible for numerous groundbreaking outreach, professional development, cultural enrichment, education and human services programs. --30--AMP/se CONTACT: The Recording Academy Jon Marcus, 212/245-5440 fax: 212/489-0394 marcus@grammy.com or The Powerhouse Group Steven Tramposch, 212/561-1736 steve@powerhousegroup.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 10:52:41 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: even more news This is a reiteration of the bulletin Lee pointed out to us last week, but may be news to some of our newest members, Robin T Be Operating System Gains Momentum With 10,000 Registered Developers MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 15, 1999--Be, Inc., the developer of the digital media Be Operating System (BeOS(R)), continues to gain wide acceptance in the market as the company today announced that it has reached the mark of 10,000 registered developers worldwide. In addition, Be Inc. just held its 1999 developer conference focused on media applications development, where developers from around the world attended. "Surpassing 10,000 developers is a significant milestone for the company," said Timothy Self, vice president of developer relations at Be, Inc. "This explosive growth in the BeOS development community really underscores the need for a modern operating system that can elegantly handle digital media, and it underscores just how strong the BeOS is as a development platform. There are some very exciting applications in development, particularly in the area of audio and video editing and viewing. This is great news for consumers who work and play in the digital world." Attendees at the Be developer conference demonstrated their media rich applications with a variety of programs from audio manipulation and graphics animation to video editing. Some of the developers included: BeatWare which demonstrated e-Picture, a graphics application for creating dynamic Web graphics; Adamation which debuted its Personal Studio, a real-time video editing application; MGI which unveiled its VideoWave II, a video editing package for BeOS; and Beatnik, Inc. which demonstrated its sound player, a mini synthesizer for streaming audio on the Web. "Creative professionals are constantly seeking new technologies that will allow them to get the most out of digital media on the desktop," said Thomas Dolby Robertson, founder and chief beatnik at Beatnik, Inc., whose audio playback engine is the core of Be's operating system. "Sound and video really run sweetly under the BeOS, so users get to push the limits of their hardware and applications to produce some truly amazing pieces of work." Be, Inc. develops the BeOS, an operating system that provides a rich user experience especially for people who handle high bandwidth digital media, such as graphics, audio and video, in real-time on personal computers and web devices. About Be(R) Be, Inc., founded in 1990 by Jean-Louis Gassee, is a software company focusing on building new foundations for the next generation of digital content and media design tools. With a team of industry-leading engineers and business executives, the company is dedicated to removing the limitations of existing computer architectures and delivering a new level of price performance on both personal computers and Internet appliances. In 1997, Be published the first public release of the Be Operating System (BeOS(R)), the core product of this strategy. Additional information on Be and the BeOS is available online at http://www.be.com/. Be, Inc. is headquartered in Menlo Park. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 15:55:59 +0100 From: Tim_Dunn.JBA_HEATHROW.SPL_EXTERNAL@jba.co.uk Subject: Re: Alloy: the NYC MP3 conference Has anyone else noticed that DOLBY is now in inverted commas? the_copse ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 15:15:35 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: applause to Beatnik, & windsurfing question... I must express my total admiration to all the people at Beatnik for the hard work they've been doing. They're really beginning to develop a solid reputation & things are coming together brilliantly for them. Okay Alloy people, what say we all pitch in & send everyone at Beatnik on a trip for windsurfing in some nice place like Hawaii or Australia? Hmm, maybe seperate trips though... they might feel as if they've been living in each others' back pockets for a year, after the work they've done leading up to these press releases :) Speaking of windsurfing... I'd never really known what was involved with this until a few weeks ago, when I saw someone windsurfing on tv. Wow, it looks so exhilarating!! How on earth would one get started doing this? Besides living near a suitable beach of course :) How long does it take to feel as if you can control what you're doing on the board, and react to what's going on between the wind & the sea? Any windsurfers out there who could explain? Robin T who sinks when she should be swimming & doesn't even own a bathing suit :? ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V4 #114 ***************************