Couscous & Cola Global 是荷兰制片人Maartje Nevejan制作的一档著名电视节目，大概就是在全球各地采访当地年轻人的生活状态，由于节目非常成功，CNN已经购买了其版权。今年Maartje决定在北京制作这档节目，采访北京的年轻人。由于Maartje的老乡和朋友Gabrielle是我们的朋友，所以Couscous北京的部分拍摄放在了yah工作室。下面的链接可以看到她们的工作，很有意思。www.couscousglobal.com/page/1021/en
Gab 和 Maartje在工作室。
Almost every search engine in China now offers an mp3 search (Baidu, Sougou, Gougou, etc.) and it looks like Google is going to follow suit… with caution.
The first mp3 search engine in China was provided by Sougua in 2001 and Baidu, China’s top search engine, followed in 2002. Music search engines in China aren’t particular to whether the download is licensed or not, providing access to pirated versions. According to the Wall Street Journal, Google plans to launch an MP3 search, allowing users to search free and licensed music downloads. They state that this will allow Google to better compete with Baidu whose mp3 search (which does not filter for license). The proposed venture would offer downloadable mp3s with a “digital watermark” that would make the files traceable and provide data on downloads for record labels participating in the search.
In a country where most people users don’t think twice about whether their music is pirated or not, I’m not sure how much of a competitor Google’s mp3 search in China will be, but it might provide a new direction for the international music industry to go.
There are a few music search engines in the US market, but they are quickly becoming targets of the recording industry, as in the case of SeeqPod, a flash-based music search engine that is being sued by Warner for copyright infringement. Songza is another search engine with a very user friendly flash interface and an ability to rate, email to a friend, Twitter and embed any file.
At first I’d thought I would start this first post by talking about what the purpose of this blog is or what it might be, or maybe what it won’t be? But instead, like all good Americans, I’m going to talk about myself.
I’m a… programmer… um… turned … internet researcher?… well, I don’t have a job title yet, which aptly describes the general state I’m living in these days. I moved to Beijing just over half a year ago with my husband and have been lucky enough to fall into some good places and live life without much direction. Originally we planned to stay in Beijing for only a month and I took a freelance position with Yah. The month has been extended and now I’ve started a full-time position.
Yah… Yah Interactive Lab is a creative studio mostly dealing with interactive web projects, both commercial and not. My role in the studio at this point is to bring some ideas to them while bringing some of their ideas to the rest of the world… hence the blog.
… the blog! At this point, its direction is a little bit fuzzy and will gain some clarity as it continues. The first purpose is for me to share some ideas with Yah – this is the fuzzy part as the categories may be broad. The second purpose is to provide a little internet window into Yah through my eyes.
So, there we go. The first post. woo!
