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Eight Recent Social and Technical Phenomena
Over at our sister blog Music Think Tank, there are two new posts up. One is from Chris Taylor, a co-founder of MicControl, a music blogging network, on the 11 must-have iPhone apps for the musician on-the-go. The other, from Bruce Warila, is on the eight recent social and technical phenomena that are making your music ...
Sonicbids Continues Evolution with No Cost Gig Listings Courtesy of Musician's Friend
Sonicbids has added no cost gig opportunities for its members courtesy of a new partnership with catalog and online music gear retailer Musician's Friend. The listings will be introduced gradually over the next few months eventually reaching the thousands. A broader roll-out is planned for the Fall. In the past, some have been critical of Sonicbid's ...
Tastebuds Connects Single People with Shared Musical Taste
As everyone knows, the most important thing for building a healthy and long-lasting relationship is having shared taste in music. Well, maybe it's not the most important thing, but it's certainly a good starting point. That is precisely the thinking behind Tastebuds.fm, a recently launched website that matched single people based on their musical taste. By ...
Data: How Do Major Acts Use Social Media?
Famecount publishes charts of the top music artists on social networking sites based on their friend and follower counts on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Sandbox has done a great job of turning the data in to charts that offer a glimpse at how each of these major artists uses social networks and how their fans want ...
Apple's iAds: Imagine the Possibilities
This first look at Apple's new iPhone iAds advertising platform comes courtesy of ad giant Chiat/Day and it has nothing to do with music. But as you watch this pitch for Nissan's Leaf electric car, imagine how it could be used for music promotion. The iAd pushes a rich and interactive app-like experience onto the phone--no ...
How I Used Twitter to Live-Blog the Opera
Opera and Twitter: Could any two vehicles for human expression be more diametrically opposed? And yet they kind of go together, as I found out this week while live-tweeting the San Francisco Opera's performance of Wagner's Die Walkre, a four- and-half-hour epic noted for its ambitious staging, bravura solos, massively overwhelming orchestration and ladies with pointy ...
ASCAP Bows Online Invoice
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers announced the launch of cue sheet access on its Member Access online portal, allowing its almost 400,000 members to monitor data on music performed in audio-visual programming. Cue sheets, which act as a kind of invoice, are the most reliable source for keeping track of musical content in ...
Sound Around: New iPhone Music App Builder
Sound Aroundlaunched today as a platform for musicians to build their own iPhone Apps. You can check outan app they madeforthe Riverboat Gamblers here. In the nearfuture, they plan to extend their service to include Android, but for now, here's a great demo of how it works and 3 chances to with a free app: ...
Google Me: Another Next Social Network
We know very little about it, but it has been said that Google has intentions of launching their own social network called Google Me as a head on rival to Facebook. Blogger Noe Pacheco framed some rather important questions, “Will it be artist friendly?" “Is there going to be a music player for bands and artists?" ...
Jed Carlson: Why You Need a Social Media Strategy
On Hypebot's Social Media Day, we missed posting this piece by ReverbNation's Jed Carlson. (Sorry Jed!) But it it's a good one that deserves your time--just like the other great pieces of advice and philosophy that were shared yesterday. What's special about Social Media is that it has incredible marketing leverage when compared to other ...
