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 [...]
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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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 [...]
Julia has said that she wants to learn to play violin ( which is especially funny when you see the photo of her playing a ukulele like a fiddle). We’re looking for a place that will teach a four year-old but she may change her mind after seeing this:
Yahoo announced today that it has acquired the shared playlist service, WebJay. A one man operation that is the brainchild of Lucas Gonze who will be joining Yahoo and spreading the joy. In his own words:
From the audio and video perspective, the meaning of playlists is that they’re the container format for the internet. CDs [...]
Thursday’s Wall Street Journal had a piece on their front page (timed for the Howard Stern’s move to Sirius satellite radio) which talked about how record companies which had cut the satellite broadcasters sweet deals on royalties because of their limited reach are now beginning to regret it.
While existing models (such as the Sirius S50 [...]
For the past week, Julia’s been breaking out in spontaneous song. Short clips here and there, her favorite is Yesterday. I’m not even sure where she picked this up but it clearly stuck with her. Today, I finally caught it on tape.
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My friend Alex has the coolest job. His company, Rock River Music (throw on the ‘phones, cool streaming music on their site), puts together compilations of music for retail stores. You know that CD you saw by the
register at The Gap? That’s a collection of tracks selected, licensed, and
packaged by Rock River.
The LA Times [...]
Advertised in the entertainment section of my paper as, “A groundbreaking live event celebrating the music of video games,” comes Video Games Live, a full orchestra performance of the music of Halo, Zelda, Warcraft and others. Partially backed by Clear Channel, the performance will feature, “music from the world’s most popular video games performed by [...]
Now joining last.fm is a new service, Pandora, which suppliments revenue from affiliations with Amazon and Apple with a very reasonable subscription fee ($36/year, $12/quarter). The interface works better for me but that’s mostly because they’ve simplified the number options they make available. Unlike Last.fm, you cannot tag your music collection nor does it monitor [...]
Changing of the guard, social overtakes search. Facebook.com now the most-visited site in USA -- overtaking Google. http://awe.sm/52aWf [iankennedy]
RT @marshallk: app request: I give you a URL, you show my the bios of all the people who tweeted links to it, excluding any via twitterfeed [iankennedy]
