Just before the new year I learned about eSession.com, a very well designed portal for hiring session musicians and producing music. Gina Fant-Saez has done a fantastic job engaging world-class studio musicians, engineers, and producers (who have a minimum of 15 major album credits) and creating an environment where requests can be made, tracks can be played, and talent can be paid.
I hope to meet with CEO Gina Fant-Saez on my next trip to Austin and discuss with her how the great work her team has done could possibly meet the infrastructure requirements of Manifold Recording and provide a commercial engine for The Miraverse. It is exciting to see so many good potential frameworks for launching a new generation of creative and commercial approaches to 21st century music production.
Manifold Recording / The Miraverse 
At AES E-Session had an amazingly smart booth. To stress the idea of working from a hotel room and various other ideas they had their booth look like a hotel room (French maid and all!) I caught a few photos while I was there. They had plenty of other clever things in there which really showed a strong attention to detail (and humor).