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Sonicbids and Headliner.FM Collaborate, Launch App

Source: HypeBot
December 14, 2010

Sonicbids and Headliner.fm have collaborated to launch a new app for artists to reach new fans. The Headliner.fm app enables artists to trade recommendations with similar groups and promote to their fanbases through artist-approved status updates on social networking sites and mobile devices. With this collaboration, Sonicbids artists will gain access to the Headliner.fm app and be able to promote everything from their music to their upcoming gigs. Sonicbids Founder and CEO Panos Panay writes: “This partnership echoes our mission ...

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Grooveshark Rises in Popularity - So Now What?

Source: HypeBot
December 14, 2010

Grooveshark proudly announced on their blog yesterday that they made it onto Google's annual Zeitgeist—a roundup of the most popular search terms on the web throughout the year. They made the list of the Top Ten searches in the United States. Strangely enough, as far as regional of interest goes, the United States is actually last on the list. That's right. Out of ten regions, they're far more popular is places like Costa Rica, Argentina, Chile, UK, and Australia. In ...

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Buy Your Digital Music from a Vending Machine

Source: HypeBot
December 11, 2010

The future of the music industry has arrived: the MP3 vending machine. MOD Systems has released its Download2Go digital music kiosks in Quick Chek convenience stores. Shoppers can now grab a quick bite to eat and a new album while they're browsing around. With these machines, all the user has to do is tap the screen, find a song, insert their memory stick, and swipe their credit card. Then the tunes download instantly. At first it's easy to scoff at ...

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Twitter Gets More Music Friendly, Embeds Rdio

Source: HypeBot
December 10, 2010

Twitter is slowly but surely becoming a much more music friendly service. First came iTunes song previews and the ability to share music with friends by linking a Twitter account to iTunes' Ping. Then came the ability to click on a Tweet with a link and view embedded media from partners like YouTube and USTREAM. Now Twiiter has expanded its list of embed partners most notably including streaming music service Rdio. When a subscriber Tweets out a song, Rdio members ...

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Youtube Drops Its 15 Minute Limit

Source: HypeBot
December 10, 2010

Grab those old full length concert videos and start uploading. Back in July, YouTube raised the upload limit to 15 minutes for all users. Starting today, they're allowing most users with a history of complying with the YouTube Community Guidelines and their copyright rules to upload videos that are longer. Users can click the “Upload" button at the top of the site to see if their account qualifies. If you're uploading a video that was previously rejected for being too ...

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S. E. Shires Company releases new website

Source: WESLEY HOPPER
December 10, 2010

S. E. Shires Custom Brass Instruments S. E. Shires Co. was founded in 1995 for the sole purpose of building custom trombones of unparalleled professional quality. Now recognized as a leader in brass instrument design, innovation and manufacture, we maintain our commitment to every player who chooses Shires, to build an instrument that not only feels and sounds exactly the way you want, but is mechanically perfect, built to last for many years and beautiful to look at as well. ...

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Why Google's New Chrome Web App Store Matters to the Music Industry and Music Fans

Source: HypeBot
December 9, 2010

Yesterday Google announced a new Chrome Operating System and an Apps store to go with it which debuted with just 23 music apps. But the store should quickly garner participation from many more music tech companies and the broader music industry because it offers both an alternative method of monetization and more flexibilty for users. “In addition to installing music apps on your smartphone and tablet, you'll also be able to install them on your Chrome browser (multiple operating systems), ...

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RealNetworks to Step Back into Music with Unifi Digital Cloud Locker

Source: HypeBot
December 9, 2010

Ever since spinning off it's Rhapsody Music service, the exit of longtime chief Rob Glaser and left a with a gaming service and products like RealPlayer that are declining in popularity, RealNetworks has been struggling to find it's corporate reason d'tre. But yesterday at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference, the company revealed its next big product: an online digital music and media locker dubbed Unifi. Details are slim. but according to a plea for beta testers, “Unifi lets you ...

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