On May 7th, 2007 I participated in The New Yorker Conference and showcased some technology and processes we use in license agreements with several of Platinum Blue’s technology partners including hit prediction technology and processes for which we license components from Music Intelligence Solutions and I showcased a technology by one of our music recommendation partners, Barcelona Music and Audio Technologies.
It turns out the link at the end of the presentation was indeed working, it was just opening the results in another window. Leave it to a moment on stage for things to seem to go wrong, even when they don’t.
Interviewing me is Malcolm Gladwell, author of best-sellers “The Tipping Point” and “Blink - The Power of Thinking Without Thinking”. He’s also a staff writer at The New Yorker. In 2005 Time Magazine listed him as one of its “100 Most Influential People” so, I’m clearly out of my league.

[…] Ayer comí con Mike McCready, uno de los gurus a nivel internacional del campo de las nuevas tecnologías aplicadas al mundo de la música comercial. Apareció hace años en la prensa especializada mundial por anticipar el éxito futuro de Norah Jones en base a un modelo de predicción desarrollado desde la empresa que Mike fundó en Barcelona. Mike ha sido protagonista habitual en artículos en The Economist, The Guardian o en el New Yorker, y ponente en el prestigioso New Yorker Conference. […]