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SPOTIFY TechTalk at Ahoy! Berlin
Spotify, the uber-cool music streaming service is coming to town to host an event as part of the Berlin Web Week this Thursday at Ahoy! Berlin. This is your chance to meet the people behind the rapidly growing Swedish startup. Engineers from backend, platform, desktop and web development will explain the technologies behind the product and answer your questions. Needless to say, there will be beer and chilled-out, too!
Where: Ahoy! Berlin, Windscheid Strasse 18, 2. Hinterhaus, 10627 Berlin (S-Bahn: Berlin-Charlottenburg)
When: Thursday, May 3rd, from 18:15 (to open end)
Registration: http://www.meetup.com/Sthlm-Spotify-Tech-Group/events/61741812
DJ Lowrider playing the Blues
Holy Moly, what a set! Our dear friend and Ahoy! Berlin resident :-) DJ Lowrider, a.k.a. Daddy Hemingway recorded a Sweat Lodge radio show at Maria Peligro this week. Please do yourself a favor and listen to this legendary session below, I am sure you can find some time for it this weekend. If you want to book DJ Lowrider, please get in touch with us and we will forward you the contact details.
Go ahead, let Daddy’s voice soothe your pain!
Meet Christoph Räthke, Organizer of “Battle of the Startup Bands”
He is the “gute Seele” (“good soul”) of the Berlin startup ecosystem. A man who has “been there and done that.” A startup warrior who seems to have seen it all! Christoph likes to refer to the time before the bubble burst in 2001 as “before the war”. Who knows, maybe that was not even the first tech bubble he experienced :-).
A passionate musician, Christoph came up with the idea of a startup band contest, called Battle of the Startup Bands. The best thing about it: You do not have to be a musician, everybody can take part! Who better to tell you about it all than Mista Organizor himself. Action!
SKYPE A FOUNDER #2: Holger G. Weiss, CEO of Aupeo
Online music services are the talk of town (again). Pandora is filing for an IPO, Berlin based Soundcloud passes 4 Million users, Turntable.fm awes early adopters and according to Zuckerberg, music is the next social frontier, with facebook rumored to enter a deal with Spotify.
Spotify clearly gets the most buzz at the moment, but it is currently only available in 9 countries, excluding the US or Germany, for example. Other popular services such as Pandora (only available in North America) or Last.fm (only available in 4 countries) also face limited adoption due to unfruitful negotiations with record labels.
Enter AUPEO! Personal Radio: Aupeo is an online music streaming and discovery service offering personalized audio streams and radio stations that is available in 40 countries and pre-installed on over 25 Million devices, including Acer Netbooks and TVs from Philips, LG or Loewe.
Integrating software applications with hardware manufacturers has become an area of expertise for Aupeo CEO, Holger G. Weiss. His previous company Gate5, a leading supplier of mobile mapping software, was sold to Nokia in 2006 for a rumored €151 Million.
Apart from discussing the development of music streaming services and Aupeo in particular, we also talked about the tech ecosystem in Berlin and Holger’s role as a mentor at the Founder Institute.
