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IT Conversations - Jon Udell & John Buckman

June 11, 2008

Listened to a great IT Conversations podcast the other day in which Jon Udell and John Buckman (founder of Magnatune) had a great exchange on the future of online music.
Once the iPhone 3G enables all-you-can-eat streaming for music, the ipod becomes just a local cache, a hard disk buffer for music that you would normally [...]

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last.fm, full tracks now for free

January 24, 2008

My favorite music site, last.fm has done away with the 30-second preview and now serves up full-length streams of all of their tracks, all for free. In a blog post, last.fm says that they’ll limit each track to three plays before a notice pops up promoting a new, Unlimited Listening Subscription. The artists will be [...]

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Band Name Origins

November 20, 2007

Thanks to the Band Name Origins list, I now know how Led Zeppelin got their name.
Keith Moon told Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones that their new project would go over like a lead balloon, hence, Led Zeppelin. The ‘Led’ spelling was to make sure people pronounced the name right.

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last.fm artist page wiki

November 17, 2007

Tonight I discovered that last.fm has a wiki to store biographies for each of the artists (here’s the entry for Radiohead). They offer a subscription to an RSS feed of recent changes but with a last.fm twist - it limit the feed to updates of changes and edits to only artists it thinks you’ll care [...]

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Billboard Magazine tracking blogs

November 12, 2007

I had no idea but it makes total sense. Leaderboards are all the rage so it makes sense that the publication that started it all would track blog post mentions to see which musical artists are getting the most buzz. The site is pretty light on it’s methodology.
The Buzz 100 Chart is currently [...]

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Dark Side of the Moon on Ukulele - The Tatamimats

July 4, 2007

This is one of those events that sounds worse than it really is - so San Francisco in it’s “why the hell not” spirit but click through to Laughing Squid’s embedded video of Pink Floyd’s Time and you’ll see it’s not that bad. With a few beers in my belly, I can imagine that I’d [...]

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Visual Interface to Musical Genres, Musicovery

February 1, 2007

Musicovery dubs themselves an “interactive webRadio.” It’s basically a visual representation of musical genres that you can click around and explore. They provide a palette of moods to get you started, Dark to Positive, Calm to Energetic. Start clicking around and let the music wash over you. No registration required, they make their money from [...]

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Fun with Ringtones

January 25, 2007

Ringtonesoup is making the rounds because a sample of Marissa Mayer’s laugh is one of the most popular ringtones on the site. Intrigued, I was pleased to find a site which makes it dead easy to upload and share your favorite samples. They have a contest going on for the best “Booty Call” ringtone so [...]

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The Value of Editorial

December 18, 2006

In this world of automated aggregation engines we can really appreciate the value of someone taking the time to pick through a selection of material, dust off what’s forgotten, and otherwise hold up to the light something to be celebrated.
I listen to Salon.com’s Weekly Download podcasts and while I enjoy the selections, the adverb and [...]

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“We can’t control the puppets but we thank you for your understanding” - Yahoo Hack Day ‘06

October 2, 2006

Photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid
Success on the internet is not a zero sum game. New activity can come from any corner and audience and attention often expands to meet this demand. Much has to do with the spirit of “giving back” which is one of the principles upon which the internet is [...]

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