Quite an interesting overview and perspective on who DRM has actually benefited (Apple), and how...
Mark Mulligan, digital music analyst at Jupiter Research, also expects Apple to change its appro...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/may/15/drm.apple
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Interesting chart of who's up and who's down among the most popular streaming services. Lots of ...
http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/05/imeem-unseats-y.html
May 15, 2008
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A twitter-a-like service for passing on word-of-mouth music recommendations [via Music Ally]
Blip is a quick way to tell your friends what song you're into right this minute. You also find ...
He talks about his archives, giving away Living With War, and his car project.
Here at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco Neil Young just announced that his whole life's ...
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/interview_with_neil_young.php
May 07, 2008
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More details of the 'modular hardware' approach to radio with built-in social networking. confir...
Olinda is an extendable and customisable radio. On the side of Olinda is a studded, magnetic con...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/05/olinda_a_new_radio.shtml
May 06, 2008
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A similar idea to PartyStrands for coffee shops, though I'm not quite sure how it works. [via Te...
Mark Silver has designed PODDITTIES symphony, which is a design intervention marketed to indepen...
http://thrivingtoo.typepad.com/thriving_too/2008/05/community-throu.html
May 06, 2008
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Deleted CDs will be produced to order - presumably deflating the price of rarities? The long tai...
Amazon has made deals with Sony BMG, EMI and other labels to bring hundreds of out-of-print alb...
http://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/2008/05/out-of-print-cd.html
May 05, 2008
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This appears to enable managers to make distribution (n.b. Billboard, 'distro' is not in the Eng...
"Instead of relying on the traditional label system to release content, artists and managers can...
http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i8ccff8ef2246288d376cad1699182422
May 02, 2008
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A free and advertising-free classical music streaming service. Why aren't there more services li...
Very extensive and detailed account of all the rights and permissions involved in putting a musi...
Is it now safe to include music in videos you upload to Google's YouTube? I don't mean uploading...
http://www.consumingexperience.com/2007/09/google-youtube-music-in-videos-legal.html
Apr 24, 2008
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Focusing on pop culture from 1968-90, apparently. I'm not sure if this will be US-only, since th...
GetBack Media is set to launch with music and TV content focusing on pop culture from 1968-90. T...
I feel sorry for Gerd that he's having to throw in the towel due to licensing issues. At the sam...
We therefore had to realize that a company that wants to provide interactive streaming music ser...
Yet another 'chart' that aggregates multiple measures, adding to oranges to apples and getting.....
To adapt a Frank Zappa quote: just what the world needs, another playlist sharing service. This ...
MyPlayList uses the XSPF xml format to combine images from the Flickr image sharing service, wit...
Neat little story from Derek Sivers about the impact of piracy on niche artists, and how this wa...
I spoke at a conference last weekend, where a woman in the audience was SO mad about piracy that...
http://www.musicthinktank.com/blog/whats-really-keeping-you-from-where-you-need-to-be-its-not-p.html
Apr 17, 2008
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I like the candid bluntness of 50 Cent's management company in saying that the reason they're se...
"The thing that separates Thisis50 from MySpace is we control the e-mail database," says Chris "...
http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUKN2830064820080329
Mar 31, 2008
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Zac Johnson (shock: he's blogging about work!) compares the pros and cons of two new playlist-sh...
http://datawhat.blogspot.com/2008/03/share-your-musical-taste.html
Mar 31, 2008
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The results of this audit could be an interesting flashpoint.
The Copyright Royalty Board has just announced that SoundExchange has decided to audit Last.FM. ...
http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2008/03/28/analysis:-soundexchange-audit-last.fm-what-value-music?
Mar 29, 2008
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Some expect big things from the Echo Nest, who have been in stealth mode for a long time. Now so...
“Machine Listening” is the idea that computers can be programmed to interpret audio signals ...
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/27/first-machine-listening-api-flies-from-the-echo-nest/
Mar 28, 2008
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Jim Griffin breaks cover with a new collective licensing venture, backed by Warners. "Bronfman h...
Edgar Bronfman Jr.'s Warner Music Group has tapped industry veteran Jim Griffin to spearhead a c...
http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/top-5/2008/03/27/Warners-New-Web-Guru
Mar 27, 2008
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Online groups are taking new forms as participants spread themselves amongst multiple Internet a...
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_8/baym/index.html
Mar 27, 2008
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This is a much more muted reception for the imeem announcement [cf mashable], which notes "The c...
In order to get to that point, though, they believe they need to prove to the major record label...
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/imeem_launches_developer_platf.php
Mar 25, 2008
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Interesting take on the imeem announcement. If it's right, then imeem could become both a platfo...
Having created the platform for its own application-building purposes, Imeem discovered that it ...
I'm not sure that this research is a big deal. "There is also a strong connection between online...
"Social networking is clearly not about creating exclusive, self-enclosed communities," said Dia...
http://www.edisonresearch.com/home/archives/2008/03/online_radio_re.php
Mar 19, 2008
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Whatever people say about Orlowski, he has been covering developments in the legal P2P/collectiv...
the potential demand for legal P2P is promising.Based on survey data (pdf, 332kb), PlayLouder MS...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/14/soribada_korea_legal_p2p/
Mar 19, 2008
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