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Audio Apps Combining Music and Talk
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By Dexter Blumenthal of Evolver.fm. It's up for debate whether hearing an audiobook is the same as reading, but nobody doubts that listening is a unique way to process not only music, but information. It frees up your eyes, for one thing, so you can drive, pedal, or run, in cases when carrying a book would be absurd or impossible. Even if you commute by train, choosing sound over vision means you can stare wistfully out the window at the ...
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Radical.FM Launches Streaming Music Service in U.S. with iOS App
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HypeBot
Radical.FM today launched an iOS app that apparently both introduces the full service to the U.S. but also represents a bit of a relaunch from last year's open beta. However the basic concept of web radio that one can fine-tune via genres or get more granular with song picks remains the same. Radical.FM also remains ad-free and listener-supported. Radical.FM launched in public beta last year and got a bit of extra attention from being based in Sweden, the land of ...
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Echo Nest Engineers Create MusicRadiator
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By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Music fans, by definition, listen to music. We don't always listen in the same way. Sometimes, we know just what we want to hear; sometimes we have a vague idea; and other times, we grow sick of what we already know, and maybe even feel a creeping sense of guilt that we're not reading everything on Pitchfork, listening to everything on Hype Machine, or scouring label sites, BandCamp, and SoundCloud for the freshest music, ...
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Nonsoft Breaks Record, Makes Musical Programs In 64 Bytes
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Nonsoft, the independent software. music, and game producer, has recently announced that their lead programmer has potentially broken several world records by creating an engine for audiovisual programs in 64 bytes or less. This is roughly equivalent to less than half the space of a Twitter text message for each tiny program. Nonsoft has used this new engine to produce short audiovisual programs in 64 bytes or less, as well as interactive demos which respond to user input in 64 ...
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Google's Changing SEO Policies and How to Optimize Your Music Site
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HypeBot
New search engine changes are rolling out from Google that may affect you if you've been taking certain approaches to link building to boost your site. Other changes may affect how well your site does in mobile searches. But if you're not hardcore enough to keep up with the latest from Matt Cutts and company, you may be pleased to know that simply doing what's best for your fans and future fans when they visit your site will probably keep ...
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Email Still Top Marketing Tool, Says New Study
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HypeBot
With the many discussions, studies and success stories touting the importance of social media, email is still the most useful tool in the kit, according to a new survey of marketing professionals by the Direct Marketing Association. Though it's starting to shift, email is the #1 channel for 55% of marketers. In the future, email will likely become a bit less important. Cross-channel real-time messages, while sent out by only 29% of marketers at the time of survey, saw the ...
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3 Key Music Marketing Lessons Based on Eye Tracking Studies
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Given the importance of your website and email for marketing your music online, it's key to understand what people do when they interact with your site and email newsletters. Eye tracking is a particularly powerful research approach that is designed to help you understand where people focus when they look at your site. Here are three music marketing lessons from eye tracking studies to get you started. Eye tracking originally involved observing where people looked when they were doing such ...
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RFTD and Cashless Payment: Intellitix Founder Not Interested in Ticketing
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By Kat Drucker (@kitkat5656), event consultant and conference programming for and Digital Media Summit. Sitting down in Quebec City with Serge Grimaux, founder of Intellitix, I intended to discuss ticketing and the social media integration potential of RFID. Knowing about the success of last year's Ford sponsorship at Bonnaroo (See Video) and having heard that the company had migrated into my list. “We're doing cashless payment at an event tomorrow... they forgot to print one of the two codes on ...
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