Darren Herman... Ramblings

"The virtual currency, which is converted into real money at a certain exchange rate, will only be..."

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:15:53 -0400

““The virtual currency, which is converted into real money at a certain exchange rate, will only be allowed to trade in virtual goods and services provided by its issuer, not real goods and services,” the Ministries said.”

- http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/ebusiness/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=218101859

"I don’t always drink beer, but when I do, I prefer Dos XX"

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:30:09 -0400

“I don’t always drink beer, but when I do, I prefer Dos XX”

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2SSZA0CjdQ

Fordham MBA Presentation on Digital Advertising

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:50:06 -0400

Fordham MBA Presentation on Digital Advertising:

Going to present this tomorrow at Athan’s Fordham MBA class. Any comments?

CncrtDmnd: Privatizing Concerts

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:20:06 -0500

inefficiencies:

Musicians historically made a lot of money by touring. Over the past few years, labels have been dipping into the touring revenues and have been taking more than their fair share. Agents are driving around Beverly Hills in their Aston Martin’s and some top artists can’t afford their mortgage.

What if we created a place where people could come together to plan and execute a private concert?

One one end, I’m a huge fan of the Dave Matthews Band and I’d love to have them play a private show for 50-100 major fans. I’d gladly pay a few thousand of dollars which would never interest them on it’s own, but collectively, we might be able to raise enough to have a private show. Since it would be closed door and private, it would not affect their current tour schedule which would upset an Clear Channel or Live Nation agreements.

Or, lets flip to the opposite end of the spectrum (less expensive concerts). How much would you pay to have GirlTalk play a private show for you and our friends at Crash Mansion here in Manhattan? I’m sure you could round up a few dozen people willing to pay $50-100 for a private show and would be a lot of fun.

This is the way we envision the site:

Fans can register a profile and list the artists (or could pull from Facebook/MySpace) the artists that they’d like to see in concert

Using sliders, fans could input the maximum they’d spend to see a show

Fans would be able to send out an email to create demand around a private show

Their inputted information would be pooled and matched against other fans who like the particular artist in a geographic area and the demand meter would display certain data

CncrtDmnd would work out deals with different booking agencies and record labels to have them actively monitor the site (or we’d alert them) and try to orchestrate deals

Record labels would find this interesting for a few reasons:

extra revenue for their artists

access to the concert demand data would be priceless for both up and coming artists (for A&R purposes) and for pricing of concert tickets

creates another avenue to communicate with fans

Biz development deals would be struck with:

Record labels

Management & booking agencies

MySpace Music (and other large music services)

EventBrite or other large digital event organizing technology

Last.fm/Pandora for use of extra inventory to promote private shows

Venue management company

The way that tour schedules and private shows are booked today is much of a closed system and would like to see people creating their own experiences and have the opportunity to influence the music world show by show.

Think it has legs?

New in our living room….

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:23:10 -0400

**New** in our living room….

Great Burger King integration in beginning and love the episode.

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:18:53 -0400

Great Burger King integration in beginning and love the episode.

Flying over flagstaff Arizona

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:00:07 -0400

berger:

On route to LA from NYC, using Gogo Inflight Internet, Imming, Twittering, Tumblring, facebooking, emailing, you name it… is peace on planes over?

I’ve been waiting for this for years, but it’s a double edged sword.

NFL Week 1: Total Yards/Play by Team

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:35:02 -0400

NFL Week 1: Total Yards/Play by Team

Behind the scenes at the 2008 US Open… just moments after...

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:53:00 -0400

Behind the scenes at the 2008 US Open… just moments after Federer’s Press Conference

"Friendster was very restrictive on what users did. You were supposed to connect because you know..."

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:46:21 -0400

“Friendster was very restrictive on what users did. You were supposed to connect because you know each other in real life, not, as [founder Jonathan] Abrams said, ‘because you both like Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.’ But sometimes you want to put your chocolate in her peanut butter.”

- Marc Andreeson over on Valleywag

Great IBM commercial.

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:16:05 -0400

Great IBM commercial.

The Memory Tower from the Olympics.

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:53:59 -0400

The Memory Tower from the Olympics.

I love this commercial.

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:49:19 -0400

I love this commercial.

Lighthouse Mural in South Norwalk (Sono). More pics here.

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:05:07 -0400

Lighthouse Mural in South Norwalk (Sono). More pics here.

bijan: Apple worth more than Google - (via John Paczkowski |...

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:37:18 -0400

bijan:

Apple worth more than Google - (via John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD)

Apple worth more than Google.

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:36:29 -0400

Apple worth more than Google.

Angel financing industry valuations as shown by Angelsoft

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:49:40 -0400

Angel financing industry valuations as shown by Angelsoft

Taken down in North Carolina

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:51:56 -0400

Taken down in North Carolina

What if the Internet was real? Great video.

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:30:51 -0400

http://shizzville.com/dave-chappelles-interpretation-internet

What if the Internet was real? Great video.

"So if you pay 10 seconds of your attention to each and every site, it will take you 115,740,740 days..."

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:02:51 -0400

“So if you pay 10 seconds of your attention to each and every site, it will take you 115,740,740 days or 317,097 years to visit all of them.”

- Svetlana Gladkova on Profy.com regarding Google’s latest announcement of indexing 1 trillion pages.