
05/17/2010
Today I was on an amazing panel at the 2010 NARM Convention discussing the use of applications in the music industry. While the focus was on mobile apps, we discussed desktop apps, widgets and the mobile web as well. The panel was moderated by Tom Constabile from Verizon Wireless and contained experts in design, development, [...]
04/30/2010
Apple purchased Lala.com a few months back and faithful Lala users have been holding their collective breaths waiting for Cupertino to let us know the fate of the popular streaming service. In my inbox this morning was the following automated message from Lala. Dear Eric, The Lala service will be shut down on May 31st. [...]

04/02/2010
Adobe released a new video today showcasing their upcoming Flash 10.1 and AIR 2 technology running on a multitude of devices. As part of the Open Screen Project you can see one of Atlantic’s new videos for artist B.o.B running in Flash during the piece. Check out the video on YouTube.

03/20/2010
Yesterday I spoke on a panel at SXSW titled The Future of Online Music Videos with Nick Stahl from Brightcove, Alexander Kisch from VEVO, John Sasso from SONY Music Entertainment, Inc and William Wilson from NARM. We discussed different delivery points for video online, from band’s direct to fan sites to large destinations like YouTube [...]

02/15/2010
Today Brightcove announced the availability of their platform on smartphones powered by Adobe’s upcoming Flash Player 10.1 for mobile devices. With some help from our video and studio team we were able to update Kidrock.com and Shinedown.com to work with the new player, as well as creating a mobile version of our studio website Studio1290 [...]

12/21/2009
Fanbase desktop is now a featured app in the Adobe Download Manager. Adobe customers who download Acrobat will also be given the option to download several AIR applications, Fanbase being among them. A great promotion for our application and our artists from our partners at Adobe.
12/11/2009
Apple has slowly been pushing out updates to it’s app store today. Not all apps are benefiting yet from the new cleaned up interface, but our Rob Thomas Fanbase application was switched over a few hours ago. The layout has a lot more whitespace, larger download/buy button and multiple detail images of the application on [...]

11/11/2009
This year I was lucky enough to be a speaker at the first annual Geekend conference. For three days last weekend self proclaimed geeks descended up Savannah Georgia for talks about design, social networking, technology and gaming. The keynote speaker Friday night was Aaron Draplin from Draplin Design. He set a hilarious, open and friendly [...]

11/03/2009
Today Alcatel-Lucent and QNX announced the 4G connected car prototype in New York. As part of the NG Connect program (an ecosystem built around 4G connectivity) Atlantic Records was proud to create a version of our award winning Fanbase platform for the music fan on the road. The car contains 4 internet connected screens allowing [...]
