According to Esquire, Rock Control is:

A brilliant idea, brilliantly executed.

Thanks very much!

You can read more here:

http://www.esquire.co.uk/2010/06/for-those-about-to-rock/

OK - any more press today and it will get silly

You wait for a good review and 2 come along on the same day….

Over 80 pieces of press so far for Fairshare Music this week.

Apparently “Spotify. We7 and Last.fm are old hat” - although we’re not totally sure we agree that (although interesting to see what happens to companies when bought out by a megacorp - see also myspace, bebo etc) - it is a great review.

Visit the home of feel good downloads and get down with some embedded generosity!

fairsharemusic is a unique new music download site where the music you buy really does make a difference. With over 8.5 million tracks, the hottest new releases and prices starting at 79p per track, fairsharemusic is not dissimilar from other popular music sites - except that for every track you download, it donates half the profit to your chosen charity. The more you download, the more it donates.

fairsharemusic gives charities access to a new music-based fundraising tool, enabling them to reach and engage a broad demographic of music lovers. Leveraging the power of micro donations, it promises to make a difference without requiring significant goodwill or generosity from donors.

Working closely with the founders, Lee Cannon and Jonny Woolfe, both former Warner Music employees, Traffic Digital are very proud to have designed and built the music download website, overseeing all aspects of technical and creative development to deliver an experience which rivals that of the best music sites online. Big thanks also go to the amazing Peter Chadwick at Popular for his branding, and the legend that is Maf Bishop, for his jaw dropping copy writing skills. Thanks to everyone involved!

Traffic HQ

We are extremely pleased to announce that we have moved into our awesome new office on 53 Frith Street, Soho in record breaking time.

Please stop by for a cup of tea (or coffee from one of the numerous coffee bars on Frith Street) if you’re in the area.

As any of you who visited us in the last year will know, we had totally outgrown our old space, and were pretty much sitting on top of each other.

We’d like to thank John and his fantastic staff at Polyteck for totally renovating the office and fitting out for us, from a shell in 6 weeks.

Before

Ever played Rock Band? Well, this is it. The real thing. Except instead of controlling animated characters with a plastic guitar, the public will actually play an active role in building a real band from the ground up. Who’s in the band, what they sound like, what they wear.

I’ve talked a lot about the Participation Economy, and Rock Control is putting that concept to work.

Rock Control has the potential to be one of the most interactive television experiences we’ve seen yet.

Check out Rock Control - Everyone’s a rock star

Rock Control is the ultimate rock and roll experience which puts you at the heart of the ultimate rock and roll experience. In a nine-month rollercoaster ride, the global public will create, develop and manage a world-class rock band, from first auditions through increasing band-mania and on towards the defining moment – a shot at getting a number one single in every chart around the world.

Harnessing the power of modern media, Rock Control gives the global public total control of every single aspect of the band – from picking the members, to shaping their image and sound, to choosing their songs and steering them towards global domination. Whoever you are, wherever you live and whatever turns you on, Rock Control will bring your rock and roll dreams to life.

Rock Control. Everyone’s a rock star.

Working with Mark Bowness the creator of Tribe Wanted, Traffic Digital have designed and built the website, for Rock Control - including a robust video encoding and streaming platform, social and community tools - allowing artists to upload their auditions and build their fanbase, and users to manage their favourite lineups.

Find your favourite artists and create your perfect lineup today with Rock Control here, or get the latest updates on facebook or twitter

We’ve been hard at it over the Christmas period, putting the finishing touches to the new BBC website for Hamlet, which was broadcast on Boxing Day.

In a stunning production starring David Tennant as Hamlet, and Patrick Stewart as Claudius the website is a collaboration between the BBC, the RSC and Open University to bring to life the story of hamlet and the rich history of the productions of the play through extensive archive footage.

Visit the website at http://www.bbc.co.uk/hamlet/

We went to see the fascinating We Live in Public at the BFI Film Festival. We live in Public won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and is made by Ondi Timoner. It is the story of the internet pioneer Josh Harris, artist, futurist, visionary (and complete lunatic), and his groundbreaking work with online video, broadcast and reality formats, which made him his fortune, but eventually left him bankrupt and living in Vietnam. as the website says:

Harris, often called the “Warhol of the Web”, founded Pseudo.com, the first Internet television network during the infamous dot-com boom of the 1990s. He also curated and funded the ground breaking project “Quiet” in an underground bunker in NYC where over 100 people lived together on camera for 30 days at the turn of the millennium. With Quiet, Harris proved how we willingly trade our privacy for the connection and recognition we all deeply desire, but with every technological advancement such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter, becomes more elusive. Through his experiments, including a six-month stint living with his girlfriend under 24-hour electronic surveillance which led to his mental collapse, Harris demonstrated the price we pay for living in public.

Go and see it if you get the chance - Josh Harris saw the future before anyone else and lost it all trying to deliver it 10 years too soon.

This slide shows how rapidly the internet has grown compared to other mass media in the last 100 years.

How long the internet took to reach 50million users