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6 Signs Smartphones Will Replace PCS as Hardware Hubs
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Evolver.fm
Someday, I will stop talking about my iPod prediction of 2001 – the one Gizmodo called “the best iPod prediction ever made.”
Today is not that day.
In that column, I predicted that not only would the iPod be a hit (despite criticism that it was way too expensive among other things), but that the iPod’s descendants would replace the PC. This seemed fairly insane at the time — just a week after Apple had announced the iPod, before the ...
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College Students Pivot T-Shirt Biz into WOMP Music Discovery App
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HypeBot
By Alex Silverman of Evolver.fm. A year in open development, music discovery site WOMP.in is the brainchild of Jason Wimp, Michal Krupa and Neil Mallinar — three college students still earning their undergraduate degrees from Indiana University, University of Illinois: Urbana Champaign, and John Hopkins respectively. WOMP, set for its official launch this March, emerged from Wimp's previous, more typically-collegiate venture: a graphic t-shirt company. Selling a variety of design-emblazoned pocket t-shirts, Wimp named the shirt-producing unit WOMP not as ...
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Top 10 Ways to Unclutter Your Band Website
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HypeBot
When doing website reviews at Bandzoogle, a common issue we come across are bands trying to put too much content and too many features on their websites. Because there are so many tools, features, and widgets available to musicians, some feel like they should use all of them. But when it comes to your website, simple really can be better. Long gone are the days of Geocities, blinking text, dancing babies and glitter (see http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer if you don't remember). The ...
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Tech Evangelist Robert Scoble on Music in the Age of Context #midem
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HypeBot
Robert Scoble is one of Silicon Valley's most respected bloggers and tech evangelists, with a role as startup liaison officer at Rackspace Hosting, and a famous enthusiasm for seeking out new and interesting startups and technologies. He took the stage today at Midem for a presentation on 'Music in the Age of Context', in which he outlined some of the new technology that's exciting him, how it's all weaving together, and what it may mean for musicians and the music ...
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OraStream for Artists: Set up Your Own Streaming Music Store and Mobile App
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HypeBot
OraStream is a new music sales platform that features high quality streaming music and offers indie artists the chance to sell or stream their music on the site, to create a streaming music widget and to build and sell native mobile music apps for iOS and Android. They already have some well-known users such as Creedence Clearwater Revival and Jackson Browne but the service is still new and relatively untested. However it's worth a close look as an example of ...
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Comparing Music Services by Audience, Social Media Followers and Search Engine Dominance
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HypeBot
By Marcus Taylor, Director of VentureHarbour. This isn't just another speculative poll on which music streaming / discovery platform is winning the arms race. Oh no! I thought it might be fun to collect a bunch of data from tools used by the digital marketing community to highlight which platform has built and maintained the largest online audience. I'm going to say up front that this blog post has nothing to do with the profitability, quality, or awesomeness of any ...
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OraStream Streams the Highest Quality Music Your Device Can Handle
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HypeBot
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Against all odds, 2013 is shaping up to be the year when people started caring about sound quality - not only as regards their choice of headphones, but also in terms of the music files themselves. Why “against all odds?" Because every other attempt to do this (DVD-A, SuperAudio CD, HD Tracks, even lossless compression) has been ignored by mainstream music fans, and even most superfans, who typically care more about finding the hottest ...
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Murfie Stores Your CD's for Streaming Everywhere
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HypeBot
By Tyler Hayes, who runs the music discovery site Nxt Big Thing. Interestingly there's a company that will take your old CDs, store them at their place and give you streaming access to the music. What makes this proposition so tempting is the same thing that makes it so crazy, no one wants their CD collection anymore. 20 years after the compact disc made its debut Murfie is placing a bet on people's investment in the format, hoping the company ...
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