jazztech
Registered: 08/04/08
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The Euterpédia Brasil website is IMHO is sharp as....Well, Josephine Baker on stage in France in the twenties, killin em. The site has the look and feel as if a master Web Designer/Developer with the transcription skills of a technical writer, programmed it.
Now if this is just the first, Beta version, wow. Everyone should open it up and take a peak. Oh and I did try to 'down load' some of my Brazilian mp3's, right where it says, Adicinar musica. I think that is a music down loader for music from the EB website to the users computer. I don't know, I'm still playing with it.
If your are Portuguese challenged, don't worry, still give it a shot. If I can use the site anyone can, and it will help in your learning process of Portuguese and the beautiful music of Brazil. Nice.
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pardal
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Registered: 05/20/07
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Thanks jazztech!
The site looks good and performs well because millions of dollars were spent on its programming! Here's the story...
I paid thousands of reais to a Brazilian and a group of Indian programmers, and the results were a mess and the project wasn't nearly finished...barely begun as a matter of fact. I really wanted to get a musical clearinghouse going but the costs of top programmers were, for me, prohibitive (by far). I'd heard about a company called "Ning", but didn't want a one-size-fits-all pre-programmed service.
So recently, just to waste some time, I had a look at Ning, and it wasn't at all what I had disparagingly imagined. One of the owners is Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape, and the service can be crafted to a great degree to fit one's needs.
It's lacking one thing extremely important to me, something which my original Euterpedia had before Facebook (!), and that's a follow-as-a-fan function. I want people, particularly musicians, to be able to recommend other musicians, creating a trail of musical discovery. Hopefully that will be instituted, and if not, Ning allows for independent programming.
But in the meantime, beyond Euterpédia looking good and performing well, it also -- thanks to the musicians on there -- sounds good!
A note about the name: Euterpe is the Greek muse of music. The derivation of the "dia" is obvious. Strange, but I (for one, anyway) like it!
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pardal
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