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SXSW Accelerator Names Music Tech Finalists
More than four hundred companies submitted their web-based products to the third annual SXSW Accelerator presented by Microsoft BizSpark. It was the first year that SXSW created a special music tech category and I enjoyed being on the panel of judges that chose the eight finalists and two alternates. If you're heaed to SXSW (and if ...
Sonicbids Integrates Songtrust Services...
Downtown-owned Songtrust is now quickly reaching out to artists. On Monday morning, the company brokered an app inclusion deal with Sonicbids. Essentially, the game plan is simple: Songtrust's range of publishing services will be integrated as an app option within Sonicbids artist accounts. Songtrust offers a range of DIY-focused song registration, royalty collection, and related self-publishing ...
Facebook Updates Artist Pages
Facebook has updated artist pages. The layout is different. The tabs are removed. Users can now “Login as Page" and interact with Facebook. For instance, I can now visit the TED Page and comment on their wall as Hypebot. Or I could “Like" a status update. Pages cannot, however, post on a user's wall or on his ...
Slacker Raises $3 Million, Preps on-Demand Launch
Slacker has raised $3 million in debt funding according to a SEC filing. This adds to the growing number of music startups that have gained additional funds in 2011. While Slacker is known more commonly as a rival to Pandora in the coming months, they will be taking MOG, Rdio, Rhapsody, and Thumbplay Music head-on in ...
PayPal Goes Live with Micropayments: Sell Digital Tracks Direct and Keep More $'s
An inability to profitably process small transactions has been a major impediment to growth in direct to fan digital music sales. A 99 cent track on iTunes nets an artist or label about 65 cents. Often a distributor takes another 10㬕% diluting the profit further to under 60 cents. Additionally, who bought the track and other ...
Tired of Being "Held to Ransom by Apple" - Could Sony Pull It's Track from iTunes?
Statements this from a senior Sony executive hint that the end game for its new Music Unlimited service may not be just to compete with iTunes, but rather to replace it. Late last year, Sony unveiled its online store and music service in Europe and promises to bring it to many more countries in 2011. Music ...
The Song Project celebrates Valentine's with the Web
The Song Project, a jazz duo out of Brooklyn, NY known for their forward-thinking and out-of- the-box approaches to music and technology has released a web page optimized for the iPad and iPhone in celebration of this Valentine's weekend. They present a bit of dry humor with some choice quotes by Rosanne Barr to Plato and ...
Why Apple May Kill the iPod Classic
The iPod Classic remains a symbol of the digital revolution. Its scroll wheel is iconic. The simple yet elegant design still resonates, but for how long? There's an interesting rumor making its way around the tech-world. It indicates that the iPod Classic is either getting a needed update or getting killed off. The Classic hasn't been ...
TuneSecure - "Let's Drive Music Piracy Underground, Make It Hard to Download."
It's still good to know that some tech-companies still have their thinking caps on. The solution to music piracy is to make it hard for the average person to download. This revolutionary idea comes by way of the Australian tech startup TuneSecure. We've heard this one before. They figure that file-sharing is all about convenience and ...
A/B Testing for Musicians: A Study in Facebook Ads
This guest post is written by Chris R. at CD Baby's DIY Musican blog. You can't trust your friends! Musicians are a suspicious lot. We tend to hold fast to our gut instincts. We heed the counsel of close friends and die-hard fans. We can be defensive and protective of our artistic “purity." We're afraid to do anything that smacks ...
