I thought that this was a very interesting development. Already I’m seeing country and language specific web sites spring up. Some sites are browser specific though.
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MUSICinMALDIVES.com was test launched on 20th November 2005. Initially I started this as an experiment, not sure if it would attract any attention and planned myself to tune up the site at my own pace. I did initially mention about this to about ten friends. Within the next fourteen days, I was awstruck when I found out that more than thirty users have registered on this site! This meant to me that I had hit on something that there was a lot of demand for. But I did not know what it was.
I was invited by Island Music to plan and execute the sound re-inforcement project for the Indian Idol Show in Maldives, which was held on 10th November 2005. The event was organized by habeys.com
Indian Idols ranking 1st – Abhijeet Sawant, 3rd – Rahul Vaidya, 4th – Prajakta Shukre and 5th – Ravinder Ravi performed in this one night event.
Preparations totalled a duration of 17 days from the first task to dismantling. This excludes minor pre-planning meetings and discussions. This project had a team of 15 members, mostly from Island Music which was headed by Hambe. [More]
The Wataniya (Maldives) official launching ceremony was marked by “WOW!” – a concert organized by Artline Maldives. This concert was hosted by MTV’s VJ Nikhil. The concert featured top local bands like Amazon Jade, Mezzo, Sultans, and dances by Theatre Mirage. In addition to that, a laser-show was performed by a team from Singapore. It was held on the 5th of August 2005 in Alimas Carnival at 21:30hrs. [More]