Sylvain Zimmer

jamendo was featured a few days ago on barrapunto.com (thanks to our new spanish translator levhita!). Barrapunto is the spanish Slashdot so the word began to spread : we appeared on many spanish blogs. (see on technorati)

What’s really funny about this is that the “Open your ears” motto still hasn’t an official spanish translation, so the bloggers have been coming up with their own translations like “¡Abrete de orejas!” or “Abre tus oídos”

A few trackbacks to some of the great blogs that featured jamendo :

http://www.blogdejacinto.com/jamendo-abrete-de-orejas
http://www.informediario.com/2006/01/jamendo-p2p-musica-creative-commons.html
http://edulix.blogspot.com/2006/01/jamendo-todo-un-descubrimiento-musical.html
http://alquemont.zoomblog.com/archivo/2006/01/08/agradable-sorpresa.html
http://tecnomovidas.bitacoras.com/archivos/2006/01/07/jamendo-busqueda-de-nuevos-artistas
http://www.kt.cl/blog/2006/01/08/jamendo-abre-tus-oidos/
http://trusmis.blogspot.com/2006/01/msica.html
http://spaces.msn.com/members/mmontesp/Blog/cns!1pLcXQONCFgwdSrY5Ly0H3IA!214.entry
http://spaces.msn.com/members/matrixkx/Blog/cns!1p-5CHMXE4cde64qyPl2s2wQ!423.entry
http://locolive.net/archivo/2006/01/musica-libre

Thank you all, now we need some more spanish artists before the official jamendo spanish opening (next week maybe)!

Everything at jamendo is crazy these days. Albums are coming in faster and faster, we got a link on Creative Commons, the word is spreading about us in French press, translators are knocking to the door every day … The future has never looked so bright.

I still manage to release a new feature each week on the website, but it’s getting harder to stay in sync with the overall status of the project. I released the new backoffice for artists a week ago after a few days of testing and everything went fine The next big thing we are going to work on is the new member area (improved registration, profile, recommendations, “blog this album” feature, …)

In the meantime, I spoke with Mike Linksvayer from CC who recommended me for an internship in San Francisco this summer. Simply amazing! Entering the CC sphere was one of my main motivations when I created jamendo. Maybe I could have done it simplier but anyway… it’s not done yet. The only problem if I go there is… will I come back to France ?