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Apple's iTunes Turns 10 Years Old, Dominates Music
This Sunday Apple's iTunes app reached an astounding milestone; it turned 10 years old. Originally launched on January 9, 2001—nine months before the introduction of the iPod on October 23, 2001—the app has gained many fans and enemies over the course of its decade long evolution. In that time span, iTunes went from zero to selling ...
CES: Tablets, Tablets Everywhere
The future is clear. It will be a world of tablets. Tablets in the kitchen, the hall. Tablets in the kid's room, the bathroom, the car, you name it. And to keep them safe, ergonomic and efficient there are literally over 50,000 companies that are making accessories to facilitate the tablet revolution. The vast, vast majority ...
Suicide Notice: Would a U.S. Launch Kill Spotify?
Had Spotify launched in the U.S., recent reports argue it would've bled them dry. Allegedly, the major labels demanded such large minimum guarantees that Spotify began to question if the financial risk added up. Since the company is nearing profitability in Europe, technology writer Sarah Lacy contends that it might be best if they skip coming ...
Top 6 Missing Features from Thumbplay Music
In past month, I've had the pleasure of using Thumbplay Music. I had recently bought myself an iPod Touch and wanted to experiment with a cloud-based music service. It's been a pretty good experience. I've mostly used the mobile app and have only dabbled in the desktop player. But, I wanted to highlight six of the ...
SoundCloud Embeds Content ID Technology
SoundCloud has collaborated with Audible Magic, a digital media identification and copyright tracking service provider. This technology will be used to help identify the ownership rights of artists, record labels, and other music copyright owners. It will also give rights holders more control over how they make their content available and ensure creators can share work ...
5 Important Things to Know About Bittorrent Stats
BitTorrent has reached a milestone; they now have 100 million monthly users. In addition, the company has also disclosed that it has over 20 million daily active users and over 400,000 daily client downloads. Depending who you are, those stats either make you cringe or leave you gleeful. My bet is that it makes you cringe. That users ...
Free Trip: Send a Music Tech Company to SXSW
SoundCtrl, in conjunction with Pepsico, are sending five music tech companies to SXSX—free of charge. This is the second installment of their FlashFWD program. With it, SoundCtrl crowd-sources their readers to nominate innovative music tech companies. Once a company receives 50 nominations, they are added to a list of which 5 are chosen as winners by ...
Thanks to Social Marketing Guru Chris Brogan for 3 Words to Guide Us in 2011
One of the few non-music industry thinkers that I try to read daily is Chris Brogan and every New Year the social marketing expert and blogger chooses three words to guide his efforts in the coming year. This year Chris' words are: Reinvest, Package and Flow. As Chris, says “Instead of resolutions, which don't usually help ...
Combining Email Marketing with Social Media Rises
Email marketers for music and other media are increasingly adding social media using elements like “share with your network" and buttons to connect with brands on Twitter and Facebook in their email campaigns. A new survey says the combination is the top tactic marketers worldwide expect to increase budgets on in 2011. According to a November ...
Leaked Video of Google's New Android Music App
There have been rumors of a new Android music app from Google for weeks. Now a leaked 50 sec. video gives a detailed demo of the new features of Android's default music app. The new app is both more colorful and comparable to the Apple iPhone iPod music player than the current Android app. It may ...
