Downloadable software for screen-capture videos with voiceover (via Jason Herskowitz)
A music site that comes highly recommended by Paul Lamere and Anthony Volodkin. I haven't tried ...
The sixtyone is part music discovery site, part social music site, and part online game. On thes...
http://blogs.sun.com/plamere/entry/the_sixtyone_a_musical_adventure
Oct 05, 2008
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Three-part interview that gives a reasonably interesting perspective on Last.fm's current positi...
This week we interviewed one of the founders of online music service last.fm, Richard "Mr Scrobb...
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/interview_with_lastfm_founder_richard_jones_part1.php
Oct 05, 2008
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imeem is finally starting to make sense to me. This blog describes how they are supporting disco...
We’ve reorganized the front door of the site, changed the navigation menu you see at the top o...
http://www.imeem.com/imeemblog/blogs/2008/10/01/CTmGoehd/new_imeem_site_layout
Oct 02, 2008
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More recommender system sleuthing from Paul Lamere, with the obligatory side-order of ELP and re...
At the ISMIR recommendation panel, Brian Whitman mentioned an Echo Nest showcase app called the ...
http://blogs.sun.com/plamere/entry/the_echo_chamber_it_s
Sep 24, 2008
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Technorati's annual survey, including stats, demographics, quotes and stabs at defining the phen...
http://www.technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere/
Sep 24, 2008
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For tracking the location of your laptop in case it gets stolen -- available for Windows, Mac, L...
Adeona is the first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop t...
Another of those 'middleware' services (cf. Topspin) that offers integrated, tailorable solution...
Bandcamp isn’t Yet Another Place to Put Your Music. We power a site that’s yours. So instead...
Useful summary of a paper from the ISMIR conference, which challenges the claims of Platinum Blu...
http://blogs.sun.com/plamere/entry/ismir_day_2_session_1
Sep 17, 2008
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Paul Lamere summarises a panel presentation/discussion involving Pandora, Last.fm, EchoNest, The...
http://blogs.sun.com/plamere/entry/ismir_day_2_the_music
Sep 17, 2008
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Fascinating and detailed (and speculative) assessment of what's going on with iTunes 'genius' re...
The gritty part of collaborative filtering is that just because you have beer and diapers in the...
http://datawhat.blogspot.com/2008/09/real-genius.html
Sep 14, 2008
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Early reports that the recommendations service in Microsoft's Zune is better than that in Apple'...
While iTunes serves up a text list of recommended songs within your library and from the iTunes ...
http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/09/zune-recommenda.html
Sep 12, 2008
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8639555925486210852&hl=en
Sep 12, 2008
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Another broadside from Michael Robertson, founder of MP3tunes.com, about the punitive/suicidal r...
The internet companies I talk to don't mind giving some direct benefit to music companies. What ...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/09/michael_robertson_music_models/
Sep 10, 2008
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Paul Lamere is just the man to review the new automated recommendations in iTunes, and his comme...
The iTunes Genius is just a run-of-the-mill collaborative filtering recommender - the recommenda...
http://blogs.sun.com/plamere/entry/genius_or_savant_syndrome
Sep 10, 2008
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Research by Hewlett Packard on what attracts and maintains attention. It's a combination of nove...
"We noticed that there is an interplay between what people pay attention to and novelty. But nov...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7562475.stm
Sep 09, 2008
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New music file format that adds much more metadata than MP3 and a whole host of extra features. ...
Dubbed MXP4, the file type allows content owners to embed a whole lot more data than the MP3 for...
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/09/08/musinaut_intros_mxp4/
Sep 09, 2008
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New service -- currently in private beta -- aiming to be the Google Analytics for indie bands, t...
Band Metrics helps musicians and bands analyze and measure the success of their music. We're in ...
Several trends implicit in this: people are using the internet a lot to try things out, or exper...
PlusNet's Dave Tomlinson offers a bevy of traffic statistics from the ISP's previous year, inclu...
A foraging assessment of Twitter.
Someone asked me the other day why I was not on Twitter? I mumbled something about the fact that...
http://lostconsciousness.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/spreading-tales-like-coffin-nails/
Aug 27, 2008
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Real time information about the artists playing on BBC Radio, including matching to your last.fm...
Track Playing is designed to be viewed while listening to the radio. Select the radio station yo...
Aug 22, 2008
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Useful table of the business value, for learning, of different web 2.0 technologies
http://informl.com/2008/08/15/web-20-learning-puzzle-pieces/
Aug 16, 2008
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Profile of BBC's Research and Development function and its management, as it prepares to move ou...
So why is the BBC selling up? Is it money? The corporation rejected a previous freedom of inform...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/aug/11/bbc
Aug 14, 2008
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Self-made fan videos, miming to their favourite hits, are starting to generate non-trivial royal...
MCPS PRS managing director of broadcast and online Andrew Shaw explains that a number of tracks ...
http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?storycode=1035146
Aug 13, 2008
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