orbitahl

I have actually had similar service running on my servers for a while now (took me about almost 3 months to design, code and test), though it makes legally no sense to make it available to the public, as you will need a solid ISP that will guarantee you that it won't abandon you as soon as they receive a letter from the Copyright Mafia. The service will eventually resemble a glorified cyber locker, since it makes no sense to delete the most popular files. Secondly, you aren't really protecting your customers unless you can provide payments through bitcoin, but even that wouldn't be safe enough.

I see, no problem. The more the merrier, I suppose.

Hello Robert,

As an avid music fan and a self-taught web-developer/designer) I've been having thoughts of building something similar to SoundCloud/YouTube integration for a while now (since the end of 2010 already, to be honest). However, it was just recently I came to a conclusion that it could be worth building, since Spotify, Rdio nor any other music streaming service doesn't seem to moving in this direction. The service should probably have to include Dropbox integration and "collaborative listening" as well in order to gain some kind of competitive edge.

Anyhow: is it okay to email you the design ideas I have so far?

- Andrus

>I've also heard a lot of start-up people hang out in Sankt Oberholz (http://www.sanktoberholz.de/?lang=en), but I have no personal experience on that one.

Coming from Tallinn to see Berlinale in February, I had a misfortune of not having a desk in my hotel room during my stay there. Thankfully, St. Oberholz was just around the corner. I spent most most of the days working there and met many great people from artists and art curators to programmers and entrepreneurs, and it seemed that about third of visitors came from Denmark/Sweden/Iceland and the US/Canada. As much I could gather, Oberholz was the place were tech people could work when they didn't have a office space for themselves or wanted some rest from their primary offices. The place is overcrowded most of the time so you don't have a luxury for your own private table, and more often than not, you'll have to ask for a place at someones table. They also provided almost decent wifi, which really isn't really the norm for the majority of places in Berlin.

On the broader perspective, Berlin is a great city with a good vibe attached to it, and I have been thinking of moving there for a while now.