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Mobile App $'s Soar. Will Music Grab It's Share?

Source: HypeBot
May 6, 2011

Combined revenues from the four major mobile app stores: Apple, Google, Nokia and RIM will rise 77.7% in 2011 to $3.8 billion, with Apple grabbing 75% of the market, according to new IHS research. (Click on image to enlarge.) While sector numbers were not released, gaming apps generate the most revenue with music lagging far behind. Apps represent a major revenue opportunity for the music industry, but only a handful of companies like The Echo Nest are seriously exploring the ...

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Likester Helps Make Sense of Your Facebook Likes

Source: HypeBot
May 6, 2011

2137 people Like a band on Facebook, but what does that mean? Who are all those Likers? If the Like band A, what else do they Like? How does 2137 Likes compare with other artists? Startup Likester hopes to answer those questions and more for both consumers (fans) and barnds (bands). Their consumer web site is live since and offers a number of insight into Like. Likester has only one competitor, Booshaka, that I'm aware of. It recommend checking it ...

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Behind the Blogs: Wayward Musician

Source: We All Make Music
May 5, 2011

Welcome to version 2.0 of our series Behind the Blogs, in which we interview the bloggers and thinkers who are following the music business changes that affect us all. Mike Venti is careful about his choice of words. The man behind Wayward Musician understands that there is a very big difference between a hobbyist musician and a true professional musician, and that when you’re looking for help with something, the source and context of advice is almost as important as ...

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Nimbit Readies Upgrade of Direct to Fan Platform Free Private Beta Invites!

Source: HypeBot
May 5, 2011

Nimbit is finalizing work on a new version of their NimbitFree direct-to-fan sales & marketing platform. While they're not quite ready to go live with it yet, the Nimbit team wants to broaden the scope of their private beta by letting you smart and music marketing savvy Hypebot readers in first to check it out. Just go here and enter your email address. You'll be given a custom URL, and asked to spread the news to others. Everyone who uses ...

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Rdio and the Echo Nest Partner to Encourage Music App Development

Source: HypeBot
May 4, 2011

Music intelligence platform The Echo Nest has partnered with on-demand streaming music service Rdio to open a catalog of 8t million licensed songs and data to app developrs. To showcase the partnership, they've released Music Maze, a steerable music streaming service that traces similarities between millions of artists. Integration Rdio and The Echo Nest allows app developers to build mobile and web applications with access to licensed music and then to categorize, filter, analyze and manipulate the music discovery and ...

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How to Use Storify to Share Story of Musical Events

Source: HypeBot
May 4, 2011

Storify, the buzzed about web service whose goal is to “make stories using social media", is now in public beta and . I spent a bit of time playing around with Storify as a tool to focus on a music related event—the release of country music group Whiskey Myers' new album Firewater. My goal was to create an embeddable Storify account that had a narrative focus without writing any text. The quick take is that Storify is definitely a worthwhile ...

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Still Trying to Decide Whether to Build an iPhone or Android App? Look at These Stats

Source: HypeBot
May 1, 2011

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Guitarist Dean Brown and RunFly Studios Release Pickup Tunes!

Source: Dean Brown
April 27, 2011

Changing Ear “Training" into Ear “Gaming," Pickup Tunes Puts a Musical Ear in Everyone's Reach. Just as a great chef can taste every nuance of a dish, a person with a musical ear can break a musical “sentence" down to its formative ideas. While there is little doubt that being able to listen well makes for better musicians, it is also true that a musical ear increases everyone's enjoyment of music. The question is: how do we get it? A ...

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