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iTunes Ping Draws Fire from Facebook and Indie Music Community
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Discontent and controversies are continuing to grow regarding iTunes' new social network Ping just two days after its launch. A hands on tour of Ping by ars technica showed promise, but some features are confusing and leave much to be desired. The biggest battle is the Apple-Facebook friction that erupted (NY Times) and lead to Facebook shutting off connections to Ping just minutes after it launched. If you're an indie artist, you've got even more to complain about. Apple tells ...
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Echo Nest and 7digital Partner to Offer Developers Online Music Retail Platform
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The Echo Nest and digital distributor 7digital have formed a partnership to offer developers access to The Echo Nest's music intelligence APIs and 7digital's 10M track catalog in 32 territories across Europe and North America. Developers can create retail music websites and apps that tap into the Echonest API for artist and song similarity, song attributes (tempo, key, etc.) and news feeds along with 7digital's album art and song previews. The two companies will unveil the new developer offering at ...
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Spotify+Sonos: Another Case for European Musical Superiority...
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The European superiority complex is almost as bad as the American superiority complex—or is it the other way around? But when it comes to music, European aficionados may have the upper hand. While American labels are kvetching over monetization details, fans in Stockholm and Seville alike are kicking back in their comfy recliners. And, within a matter of weeks, listening to a Sonos-integrated Spotify collection. The networked Spotify stereo experience goes live by the end of the month, according to ...
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iTune's Ping Social Network Won't Connect to Facebook Because of "Onerous" Terms
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Tucked into yesterday's Apple presentation announcing iTune's 10 and its new social network Ping were signs that it would link to Facebook Connect. In fact, the email sent out yesterday when users signed up for Ping referenced Facebook. But there is currently no feature within Ping to connect with Facebook. Steve Jobs: Facebook Terms “Onerous" Is the missing Facebook connection just an oversight or part of a larger riff between the two internet powerhouses? A comment by Steve Jobs right ...
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It's Official: Sony to Launch Music in Cloud Subscriptions Before End of Year
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Some Initial Thoughts on iTunes 10, Ping and Yesterday's Apple Music Announcements
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It will take some time to digest exactly what the announcements that Steve Jobs made yesterday mean to artists and the music industry, but here are a few initial reactions: It amazes me just how far in front of the curve Apple always is. And yet on closer examination, what they announce as revolutionary is almost always simply at the front edge of evolutionary. The music industry could learn from this. With its new Ping social network Apple is continuing ...
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iTunes Says Artist Profiles on Ping Invitation Only
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Say what you will about iTune's new social network Ping, but it's going to be a great place to market music. So imagine the frustration of the many indie artists—many of who are selling music on iTunes—when they learned that there was no obvious way to create an an artist profile in Ping. Apple Responds: “By Invitation Only" We asked Apple to explain and just heard back from a spokesperson that “artist profiles were launched by invitation, but we'll keep ...
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