New Facebook Real-Time Feed: Is This Where the Music Will Go?
We can’t stop writing about Facebook today, because after months of anticipation, tomorrow is the day when it will announce new sharing features for music and other media that could form a “connective...
View ArticleWatch Facebook F8 at 1pm ET; Read About Its Music Plans Now
In what has to be the worst-kept digital music secret of the year, Facebook plans to announce deep integration with a variety of music services that will let people track their friends’ listening...
View ArticleFacebook’s Real-Time Group Radio Feature Will Rule
We have a bone to pick with one aspect of Facebook’s new music initiative, but can’t find anything wrong with the way it will let people join each other on streaming radio stations to chat about what...
View ArticleHow The World Will Shape Itself to Please Social Butterflies
The old staleness: hiring an expert to design soundscapes for bars, restaurants, museums, and the like. The new hotness: allowing the sonic environment to shape itself around the musical preferences of...
View ArticleListen with your Facebook Friends – In Real Time – with Myxer
Wait — don’t switch the channel. We know you’ve heard all about how Facebook lets you see what your friends are listening to and play it back later. This is different. With the free, US-only Myxer...
View ArticleMyxer Celebrates Millionth Install, Wants to Bring Turntable.fm-Style Social...
While techie hipsters (techsters?) complain that Turntable.fm is so over, most people and even music fans only recently began to grasp the concept of downloading MP3s from the internet and transferring...
View ArticleEvolver.fm Editor Nominated for MTV O Music Award… in the ‘NILF’ Category
I’ve won several things over the years, from a Maggie Award for Best Online Column to heated ping-pong and foosball matches at various dotcoms over the years, but this is the oddest nomination yet....
View ArticleDuly Noted: Music App News (Vimeo, Slacker, Myxer, More)
We don’t have time to write full-length articles about everything that happens in the burgeoning field of music apps. Rather than let important items slip through the cracks, we’re now including them...
View ArticleHands-On with Radical.fm, the ‘Ferrari’ of Music Services Taking on Pandora,...
A bold upstart from Venice, California turned heads this week with the proclamation that it’s about to unveil a “new ultra-fast HTML5 player to rival Pandora and Spotify.” Another audacious claim:...
View ArticleVoice Is Not Content: WTFPod, Jams, and the New Music Revolution
There’s something happening here. All of a sudden, a song isn’t just a song. It’s a statement about people’s emotions at specific places and times, and it’s not from the people who recorded the song....
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