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Google Translate Inspires Both Youtube Hit and Beatboxing Tool
Google Translate was originally created by the internet giant to lower language barriers and make global web content more easily accessible. But in yet another testimony to the power of Google's free and open API's, several inventive artists have been inspired to use Google Translate to create music and in one case invent a genre. The ...
Punchtab: An Easy Way to Gamify Your Music Site
If you're interested in adding game elements to your site (aka gamification), there is now at least one simple way to do so. PunchTab offers basic tools to help you set up a loyalty program for fans visiting your site or music-related giveaways based on members' site activity. That may not sound quite as exciting as ...
Top 5 Ways to Fail on Twitter
This guest post comes from Dave Cool, the new Blogger In Residence at musician website and marketing platform Bandzoogle. Most artists and bands now use Twitter to promote their music and connect with their fans. But like with all promotional tools, there are certain things you should avoid doing. I've searched through literally thousands of artist ...
Study Takes Critical Look at Music Recommendation
(UPDATED) In “Music Taste And Web 2.0" witten for the Music Management & Media program at the University of Gloucestershire, Joel Stamp did extensive research and analysis of how consumers discover new music. His work comes just as iTunes Genius, Google Instant Mix, The Echo Nest and others are bringing machine generated playlists to market. Others, ...
955 Dreams: Ipad Apps as Future of Record Albums
Tablet computers, especially the iPad, have taken off with consumers and opened up new possibilities for digital publishing in the form of apps designed for the unique interactive capabilities of tablets. This has resulted in new forms of content apps creating the potential for revisioning the record album in the digital age. Though some digital publishers ...
4 New Sites Combine Music with Daily Deals
The runaway success of daily deal sites like Groupon and Living Social, which focus on a wide range of local deals at deep discounts, has spawned a mini-industry of copycats and niche services including some focused on music. While copycats of hot web properties are eventually sorted out with most falling by the wayside, niche sites ...
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Abandon Text, Go Visual to Drive Traffic
Scott Perry, in his excellent free newsletter and site New Music Tipsheet, advises using more picture posts to drive traffic to your band's site and Facebook page: “I know studies can tell you the actual percentage of engagement among text vs picture posts, but I see it every day in my own feeds. When I post ...
Echo Nest Compares It's Playlist Engine to iTunes Genius, Google Instant Mix
Listeners often prefer to have their music playlists created for them. Doing it yourself is just too time consuming. They also lead to new music discovery; so much effort has been put into machine generated playlists. Pandora has its version. iTunes Genius promised, but so far has failed, to revolutionize listening. And The Echo Nest created ...
Bjork: New Interactive Website
ICELAND'S FINEST HAS A NEW PLAYGROUND Bjork has re-launched www.bjork.com as a brand new website to tie in with the start of her groundbreaking 'Biophilia' campaign; her forthcoming exploration of music, nature and technology. Using the very latest HTML5 technology the site is heavily animated and interactive. It features a unique immersive 3D galaxy with versions ...
Music in the Cloud: Battle for the Celestial Jukebox
Yesterday Bruce wrote about “How Google & Amazon Hurt Recorded Music By Launching Cloud Lockers“. Today Clyde Smith weighs in. With the recent debuts of cloud-based music storage services with streaming abilities from Amazon and Google, plus something on the way from Apple, talk of the cloud has moved from the business side to the consumer ...
