Laurent KRATZ
About: Co-founder & CEO of Jamendo
Laurent was born in 1965. He earns a PhD in CS (ENSIMAG) and an MBA (Solvay Brussels).
In 2000 he founded NEOFACTO, a software services company based in Luxembourg which focuses on Free Software. He has been the CEO of jamendo since 2004. Laurent plays electric guitar.
Contact me while I'm in Berlin :
+352 621 300 150
Blog Posts
Happy Bastille Day!
--As you know, July 14th is Bastille Day, or the French national holiday. What better occasion to whip up a little selection of upbeat, swinging chan...
This week’s selections…
--Yet again, more selections of the best music Jamendo has to offer, just for you. This week, we give you two opposed options: chill out with the swa...
CYEL Awards
--Every year, the Creative Young Entrepreneur Luxembourg (CYEL) awards celebrate the creativity of young entrepreneurs based in Luxembourg. After man...
Serge Robinson: a recording record
--With no less than 68 albums published on Jamendo, French piano player Serge Robinson is our official record holder in terms of sheer quantity of mu...
Free music put to good use on The Daily English Show
--Sarah is a New Zealander living in Japan. In addition to her teaching job, she started producing an online English lesson entitled The Daily Englis...
More good music coming your way!
--As promised, we’re back with another taste of some of the excellent music available here on Jamendo. Rock and electro are the genres we have ...
Cool label alert!
--More and more independent labels choose to post their productions on Jamendo. Fading Ways was one of the first. Founded in Toronto in 1998, its aim...
Echoes from the Blogosphere on Jamendo’s 10.000th album
--We were thrilled to receive positive coverage from around the world following the announcement of our 10.000th published album. If you are interest...
The best of Jamendo, hand-picked just for you
--People rejoice! Jamendo has decided to unveil some of its hidden treasures. Every week from now on, discover some of the best music available in ou...
10 000 albums on Jamendo!
--Jamendo, the free music community, has reached 10000 albums! The whole team would like to thank all those who chose Jamendo: artists, members and m...
New widgets
--The widgets have arrived! Jamendo’s very own embedded music players are now available for albums as well as playlists. Easily share your fav...
Jamendo in the Archos Content Portal
--Here is the press release from Archos about our partnership New music partner: JAMENDO in the ARCHOS Content Portal More than 140 000 mp3 music tr...
JAMENDO’S PURPLE ARMY INVADES BRIGHTON!
--Jamendo’s launch into the UK market started with an on-street marketing campaign at Brighton’s Great Escape Music Festival. The industry-focused ev...
About Jamendo, Brighton & The UK
--Here is an interesting article from Press Dispensary about Jamendo’s participation in the Brighton’s Great Escape festival and its conn...
Operation : Brighton
--Jamendo will be present at the Great Escape festival based in Brighton UK. More than 200 local and international Bands will perform live in more th...
Inauguration!
--We have been settled in our new offices for nearly 3 weeks. It was time to celebrate! We threw a party with our partners, artists and all the staf...
A new function added to the share system
--It is now possible for you to invite your personal contacts from your Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail accounts. This feature will be available on the albu...
Jamendo’s move in its new headquarters
--That’s done. We have left the Technoport of Esch-sur-Alzette to settle in our new office in downtown Luxembourg, next to the train station. A...
New revenue sharing!
--Good news: the revenue sharing has been carried out and 1400 artists have benefited from it. In accordance with the program principle, the global ...
Joichi Ito, new president of Creative Commons
--After 6 years at the head of Creative Commons, Lawrence Lessig has left his position to focus on his project untitled Change Congress. Joic...
Restored connection
--You might have noticed : it was impossible to connect to our website yesterday afternoon. Road work in the street near our office was the cause of ...
A new sharing system!
--Our team released a more efficient interface for the sharing system: -select all your friends in one click -simplify your research by using the aut...
Interview on The Guardian blog
--Read the interview of Laurent Kratz, Jamendo chief executive
Sound Copyright
--Jamendo’s drawing attention on CC evolution CC News by Mike Linksvayer (3/14/08) Creative Commons licenses help creators (and users) opt for ...
Sound Copyright
--CC News by Mike Linksvayer (3/14/08) Creative Commons licenses help creators (and users) opt for reasonable copyright by offering (and using) creat...
Jamendo in PC Advisor
--Reader rates : music download site (05/01/2008)
International Herald Tribune talks about Jamendo
--Music world sees value in ‘free’ (28/01/2008) Here’s the extract frome the article about Jamendo :
Choose streaming and download options!
--Last week we did some modifications in jamendo. First of all, we fixed some bugs, like we always do! Then we implement the possibility to choose, i...
Choose streaming and download options!
--Last week we did some modifications in jamendo. First of all, we fixed some bugs, like we always do! Then we implement the possibility to choose, i...
Choose streaming and download options!
--Last week we did some modifications in jamendo. First of all, we fixed some bugs, like we always do! Then we implement the possibility to choose, i...
Choose streaming and download options!
--Last week we did some modifications in jamendo. First of all, we fixed some bugs, like we always do! Then we implement the possibility to choose, i...
New versions of Jamendo in German, Italian, Spanish and Polish
--A few weeks after the launch of our Orange version of jamendo in French and English, we now have turned the German, Italian, Spanish and Polish ver...
JAMENDO in PC World
--PC World the largest-circulation computing magazine in the world presented in its December edition a list of « 39 exceptionally interactive Web sit...
“Advertising revenue share” has just arrived
--The artists who registered to the “advertising revenue share” program have just received their part of our 2007 incomes (except for Dec...
Happy New Year 2008 with Jamendo
--As you may know we were very busy during the last week of 2007. We worked hard to launch our new version of jamendo (code-named Orange) in ...
Jamendo has turned ‘Orange’ : Launch of the new version
--After two months of hard work, fourty gallons of coffee, and tons of pizzas, we have just launched the new version of Jamendo. New design, new ergo...
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Pierre GERARD friend |
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Marc Thouvenin (mutual) want-to-meet |
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François Dongier (mutual) want-to-meet |
Comments
Salut Laurent, je suis dans la salle London-2, 4ème table rangée de droite et dans les environs jusque 13:30