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Music Hack Day London: Spotify Hacks and More
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HypeBot
Music Hack Day London took place December 3 and 4 resulting in the usual mix of stuff that didn't work, stuff that kind of worked, stuff that worked but was just for fun and stuff that's clearly headed for market at a future date. Spotify's efforts to further open its API were richly rewarded with numerous hacks built using Spotify in one form or another. Sounds like another fun event that again reminds us that opening up one's data can ...
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Twitter Begins Brand Page Rollout
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HypeBot
Twitter is introducing brand pages and just as many of us haven't yet experienced the new Twitter account changes, the first brand pages being rolled out aren't even necessarily viewable to all. In fact, the demo video of Twitter's account changes has been marked private and you can't even see those. Fortunately, screenshots are available. Rafe Needleman took a screenshot of Pepsi's new Twitter brand page which you can check out by clicking on the thumbnail above. It's a nice ...
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3 Microsites for Aggregating Your Band's Social Media and Extending Your Web Presence
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HypeBot
The core of a musician's web presence should be your own website that functions as a homebase of operations for news, content development and ecommerce that fuels your social media activities around the web. So why would you need single page sites like About.me, Flavors.me and Onesheet that aggregate social media content and link out to such accounts? I think of it as an “extended web presence“ that ultimately leads back to your homebase. Various forms of “digital business cards," ...
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Audiosocket Launches Music Licensing Storefront, New Indie Artist Revenue Stream
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HypeBot
Audiosocket has entered the second phase of its Music as a Service (MaaS) suite of offerings with the launch of MaaS: Storefront. It takes the music licensing service they've provided via API (like Vimeo Music) and turns it into a plug and play solution for digital media companies and for sites featuring user-created content. In the process, they've expand the potential licensing revenue for indie artists. I spoke yesterday with Jenn Miller, the President and Co-Founder of AudioSocket, who filled me ...
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Introducing the Internet’s First Web-based Key and Tempo Change Service Powered By Song Surgeon
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Jim Todd
Doylestown, PA: Todd, Michael & James, Inc (TMJ) the owner of Song Surgeon, its “best in class" audio software for pitch (key) and tempo change, announced today the availability of a web-based key and tempo change service. This web based service uses much of the same technology found in Song Surgeon's desktop application to provide high quality audio output with key or tempo adjustments. The service is FREE and can be found at http://www.songsurgeon.com/page/ssweb.html. Song Surgeon's web-based service allows visitors ...
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Free Webinar for Hypebot Readers: Holiday Music Marketing and the New Digital Consumer
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HypeBot
You define your target consumer, and then you plan your marketing campaign to reach them. This holiday season, however, the market has become more fragmented. NARM and eMusic are offering a webinar this Thursday December 1st sharing insights into the new music marketing landscape. Hypebot and MusicThinkTank readers get in free. This webinar offers an understanding of the digital music consumer breakdown and insights learned from third party research conducted by eMusic. It will take a look at some of ...
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Subjekt Headphones Announces Partnerships with Aeropostale and Rogue Status
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alison robertson
Since Subjekt's launching in early 2009, they have been on the fast track to garnering a solid reputation of quality headphones and innovative designs. It didn't take long before companies took notice, and Subjekt was snatched up for collaborations by massive teen retailer Aeropostale and the controversial brand Rogue Status. Appealing to a broad audience, Subjekt was given the creative flexibility to design and manufacture their already popular T.N.T headphones to be made specifically for their stores and customers. For ...
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Webdoc: A New Level of Social Content Creation
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HypeBot
Webdoc is an interesting new service that takes the Storify concept of mixing and matching web content to another level. It was the winner of the recent MUSIC techpitch 4.5 event in London. Though not limited to music, it's clearly useful for musicians, marketers and fans who want to quickly create content that has a more social element than Storify. Webdoc in Action Webdoc's win at MUSIC techpitch 4.5 gave an additional boost to a new service that's already attracting ...
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