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Google Plus Launches 'Studio Mode' for Live Online Music
Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Remember when we wrote about how Google+ could steal music fans from Facebook if it figured out how to stream concerts using Google Hangouts, and everyone from our pals at Wired to CNN picked up on it? Well, it looks like Google was listening — or at least ...
Apple is Pulling Youtube from Ios and It's Bad News for Music, Apps
Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. When the very first iPhone shipped, literally changing the world as we knew it, it carried a little Trojan horse inside of it called YouTube. The app for Google's video sharing site comes standard with every single iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, but all of that ends with ...
An Introduction to Programming Languages for Musicians
Sean Markey helps musicians with marketing and PR at Visible Musician. In an increasingly DIY environment, musicians are expected to wear many different hats. You do your own PR with Twitter and ReverbNation, you do your own concert promoting with Facebook, and you were the recording engineer, backing band, and producer on all the songs you ...
DIY Music Updates Social Commerce Platform with Interactive Social App
DIY Music, a division of DIY Media, unveiled today their new and improved social commerce platform designed specifically for musicians and labels, which provides them with simple ways to build and monetize their audiences. Not only can fans listen to music and share videos through the platform, but they can also buy music directly from Facebook ...
BandPage Expands to Become Hub for Musician Content on the Web
When Facebook required brand and band pages to switch over to the Timeline layout earlier this year, many Facebook application providers felt an uncomfortable blow as the new layout resulted in less visibility and usage of their products. Forced to adapt to a changing environment, the leading application for musicians on Facebook, BandPage, announced today that ...
Online Street Teams: How to Motivate Fans to Spread the Word for You
Guest post by Moses Soyoola (@moseyshow), co-founder of Jamplify (@jampaigns), a promotional platform that turns fans into active promoters of artists' content. Whatever happened to street teams? It used to be that artists would have armies of kids in any given city beating the pavement to promote the artist and the artist's shows. These promoters would ...
A Look Inside the 'New" Music Focused MySpace
As tainted of a brand name MySpace may be right now, the fallen social network plans to make a comeback in late 2012 with a focus on what their core mission should have been all along - connecting musicians with fans. Specific Media bought MySpace from News Corp. for $35 million, along with partner in the ...
Echo Nest Adds $17.3m from Norwest, Expands Api to Explore Music as Predictor of All Behavior
Music intelligence platform The Echo Nest, has closed a new $17.3 million financing round led by Norwest Venture Partners. Prior investors Matrix Partners, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Fringe Partners, Jim Pallotta and board member Michael Brown also participated in this round. The Echo Nest says it will use the funds to support sales, international expansion and new ...
Design 4 Music gives Jeff Platz an Impressive Makeover
Design 4 Music works closely with All About Jazz to help make it the ultra helpful jazz locus that it is. They have to be one of the few web shops mainly focused on making a solid web presence for a notably disadvantaged sub idiom, free jazz, and they do it beautifully. The recent launch of ...
Twitter's Breakup with Linkedin Signals a New Direction - But is It the Right One?
After a nearly three-year partnership, LinkedIn has announced that posts from Twitter will no longer be displayed on their site. The news comes as Twitter works to encourage users to visit its own services directly and not through third parties, or as Twitter's Chief of Products Michael Sippey said in a recent blog post, to provide ...
