Incredible ending to this. Hat's off to you Anil! You put on an intelligent show with a strong punch ending.

Despite Bart pissing on his fandom and knowledge, Anil Dash is a brilliant guy in the tech field, as been part of a lot of start-ups, and still continues to be part of the changing landscape of the tech field.

Dash's Prince knowledge is incredible. It's not guess work. He's talked to the people we all know in front of a microphone and behind an instrument. He's gotten the stories from first-hand accounts. (I mean, many of us have, and Dash is not to be dismissed). Plus, he's one of the few that has met Prince, and hung out with him (I think it was at the 3121 house).

He's also a super cool guy, a family man, and his little son is already a Prince fan. His presentation on immigration, colonialism, and Prince music is a great glimpse into American music and political policy...and technology of course.

Bart pissed on Anil Dash? where? I gotta read that.

Fantastic storytelling. Thanks.

DANG was that AWESOME! Thank you ufoclub for posting this, and thank you Anil Dash for creating it. SUPERB.

That was a fascinating story, brilliantly told. Thank you for posting and thank you for composing.

...and yeah, it is a great bad movie, not a bad bad movie.

Excellent Presentation!!!

That was totally worth the time!! Everyone should watch this. Thank you for posting!

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anildash said:

anildash said:

Hey everybody, thanks so much for the kind words! As I hope was obvious, I wrote this talk for my fellow fans, to show the world how much Prince meant. I'm so glad you liked it.

I think a lot of us are going to spend the next few decades trying to explain to the rest of the world why he meant so much. This was wonderful, thank you.

TrivialPursuit said:

Despite Bart pissing on his fandom and knowledge, Anil Dash is a brilliant guy in the tech field, as been part of a lot of start-ups, and still continues to be part of the changing landscape of the tech field.

Dash's Prince knowledge is incredible. It's not guess work. He's talked to the people we all know in front of a microphone and behind an instrument. He's gotten the stories from first-hand accounts. (I mean, many of us have, and Dash is not to be dismissed). Plus, he's one of the few that has met Prince, and hung out with him (I think it was at the 3121 house).

He's also a super cool guy, a family man, and his little son is already a Prince fan. His presentation on immigration, colonialism, and Prince music is a great glimpse into American music and political policy...and technology of course.

Bart is the biggest douchebag on this board. Not one single person should give his comments any merit.

anildash said:

Hey everybody, thanks so much for the kind words! As I hope was obvious, I wrote this talk for my fellow fans, to show the world how much Prince meant. I'm so glad you liked it.

One minor note. You should've mentioned prince.org in your presentation

Other than that, you were amazing!!!

jayseajay said:

anildash said:

Hey everybody, thanks so much for the kind words! As I hope was obvious, I wrote this talk for my fellow fans, to show the world how much Prince meant. I'm so glad you liked it.

I think a lot of us are going to spend the next few decades trying to explain to the rest of the world why he meant so much. This was wonderful, thank you.

So true. I'm showing this.

Anil, this is a great presentation, thank you so much, I really enjoyed every second of it.

I like your use of highways in the presentation and how you manage to intertwine Prince´s biography and the biography of you and your family and give us a little bit of a history lesson on Indians and Chinese people in the USA, black America and the history of the internet.

What a great celebration and tribute.

Amazing video!

Very touching ending, too.

Prince won.

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ufoclub said:

Bart pissed on Anil Dash? where? I gotta read that.

Christ imagine Bart or other like minded individuals doing their version !

Well done Anil, job well done.

ufoclub said:

Incredible ending to this. Hat's off to you Anil! You put on an intelligent show with a strong punch ending.

mr. dash this is a great bit, i really enjoyed watching this. thank you!.

just in case you don't know this.. prince actually re-tweeted" the words "I am Transformed" from a post made by a fan immediately after the concert in atlanta.

i mention it only because that fan posted about those words here and was upset that the world thought prince had come out with the phrase himself

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XxAxX said:

anildash said:

XxAxX said:

Yep! I end the talk by speaking directly about how much Prince amplified his fans' ideas and words.

thank you

I loved it! Prince loved us and we loved him right back. Thank you for sharing it with us!

I just finished watching Anil Dash's presentation. Wow! Thanks Ufoclub for posting this. And to Anil, what a great synthesis of historical information on migration of peoples to the USA. It definitely wasn't an Ellis Island experience for some of us--and to hear about the revoking of citizenship from an innocent group of hard-working Americans...just...wow. But that is what we're trying to combat, cycle after cycle, over decades in our political cycles. Very cool to intertwine the history of building commerce networks both physical and virtual with Anil's own family's role taken in these ventures; Prince's visions for digital distribution, and geek-love for and proficiency of hardware tech; the continuum of enterprising musicians across the years; and those enthralling Prince Facts! I am glad that Anil Dash had the opportunity to connect with P. R. Nelson.

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Only in recent years from reading people's testimonies on the org have I become aware of the extent that P. used the early chat sites to connect to people before his push into merchandising with telemarketing (I participated as a consumer), Love4oneanother (having an old-ass computer with no modem) and hitting it really big (IMHO) with the NPG Music Club. I'm impressed by all the fellow fans involved with the genesis of Web networking, and kinda' jealous that they had the opportunity to have that interaction.

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And, yes, Prince won in the end. In the beginning of the battle he had to backtrack a bit to recoup the ground lost from his last industry contract in the 90s, but before he died was assigning Warner Bros. permission to distribute HIS music.

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I hope that more people can get the message about what Prince was trying to do with his ban on Youtube exposure. You can't just go along with the media techies to get along, while so many agents of that network reap great profits from your productivity with no value added and pay out only a few cents.