I'm not sure when JamCloud will launch, or what they do, but according to a comment they left recently on Digital Noise, they claim to enable users to collect, manage and share real time, music, video, and casual Flash games. At present, you can only sign-up for their private beta.
MeeMix allows users to create and share personalized Internet radio stations for free. The service also has built-in taste prediction technology which enables a combination of user selected and automatic music discovery. The company's business application is designed to personalize radio delivery, recommendations and ads by accurately predicting individual music taste.
Digirido, a new website aimed at "helping the music industry share and discuss marketing in the digital world" is preparing to launch later this month. For more information, follow Richie Silver or connect with Digirido on Facebook.
UPDATED 2 (links fixed, apps added): Another Music Hack Day (London) was held this past weekend. Below are the hacks: Paul G music-on-hold hack (call his conference number and select the music you want to hear Cuttle (access music library on iDevice under iOS 4, and run a live remix using realtime beat tracker) Big Piano (inspired by the movie Big - big floor piano that you can make music with) Future of music 2010 (a Mac OS X app that scans your iTunes library and computes the music you are not supposed to be listening to anymore based on...
musiXmatch (mXm) is a new startup that's aiming to build the next generation song lyrics API, providing detailed metadata about the artists who performed it, the genre, influences, related artists, and digital rights management for clearing content for distribution. The company has partnered with MusicBrainz to help acquire metadata, and recently raised 400K EUR (about 500K USD). While musiXmatch is presently a restricted alpha product, additional features will include: search lyrics using either unstructured queries or open source identifiers such as MusicBrainz; take advantage of metered search-engine friendly lyric displays without the worry of copyright infringement; obtain a complete list...
Flowtown created this nice infographic yesterday illustrating how the average age for social media users is increasing. For example, the average Facebook user is now 38 years old, and 64% of all Twitter users are now over the age of 35. Does this shift change social media strategies for artists, labels and online music services? Probably, but it would be useful to know what sociological factors are driving the increase, how are these age groups using social media, which countries and cities represent the greatest increases, etc.
Indie Music Tech Exclusive: Like.fm is a new music tech startup created by Chris Chen that allows users to seamlessly keep historical track of what they're listening to on sites like YouTube and Pandora (many more sites coming soon), recommend/rank artists and songs from iTunes, and create and share playlists from music sites with friends. Like.FM even summarizes a user's music listening activity, and automatically posts it to their Facebook profile. It's quite robust, and can be downloaded as an unobtrusive, lightweight desktop client that integrates with iTunes and Winamp, or as a browser plugin (presently available for both Chrome...
If you haven't heard, Paste Magazine, the third largest rock magazine in the world, announced yesterday that they have suspended their print publication due to significant decreases in advertising revenue. While it's not clear if they will try and revive their printed magazine at some time in the future, the good news is that they will continue to publish quality content on their website.
Quick Post: There are dozens of ways fans can post video segments, or stream live concerts from their mobile phones, but below are 5 sites that can help artists professionally broadcast their live shows (in no particular order): Ustream Justin.tv Livestream Stickam Kyte What did I miss? Which service do you recommend?
Gigwish is a webapp that enables music enthusiasts to help influence their local music scene by voting for artists to play in their area, and then sharing their votes with their friends to encourage additional voting. The goal for music fans is to generate enough votes to influence promoters, booking agencies and venues to hire the acts they want to see (might be useful for an artist's street team).
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