Posts Tagged with ‘audio’

It should be unstated by now that websites and media groups will never be free of torment from record labels and music protection groups.  In fact, I hardly give a moment's notice to "news" about some website or college student coming under prosecution from the RIAA or one of its many cronies. 
I am, however, keenly interested when a social network or media site comes under fire for user-created content.   Today I read that popular social network Hi5 is [...]

Know what hip-hop mogul Jay-Z and tech industry extraordinaire Steve Jobs have in common? Apparently a record company.
So some in the blogosphere are predicting will be the news later this month, anyway. The Boy Genius Report was one of the first to point out Wednesday the odd indication that a joint venture by the Apple CEO and former head (Pres.) of Def Jam is supposedly set for public debut. Why odd? Primarily because Mr Jobs hasn’t [...]

Every once in a while – and ever more frequently nowadays – there are those who scream of impending doom for the very existence of the Internet. And they’re not all frizzy-haired crackpots. Some are rather sane groups of individuals, who analyze the status of the Web fairly closely.
And, yes, they see current trends of Internet use as spelling doom quite clearly. Some vociferously claim to foresee a time at which the Web will collapse under the stress of excessive [...]

The Associated Press reported this week that Sony BMG “inked a licensing deal with Yahoo! Inc. that clears the way for people to upload files with music or video content by the record company’s artists” to Yahoo!-owned sites.
The terms of the agreement stipulate that Yahoo! share revenue amassed through advertising associated with its current and future user-generated-media channel(s), as well as the distribution of strictly copyrighted material on the Internet giant’s pages as well as those of third [...]

Internet radio is not a new invention by any means. According to the almighty and omniscient Wikipedia, it had its start somewhere around 1993, a year in which a man by the name of Carl Malamud established the first Internet radio ?station,? dubbed Internet Talk Radio, using MBONE (IP Multicast Backbone on the Internet) technology. In subsequent years, new outlets proceeded to sprout, with their numbers increasing substantially, to the point at which a viable industry was established. Today, thousands [...]

The Starbucks-iTunes Store joint venture announced early last month was met with applause when it was first revealed, and rightly so. The partnership ? apart from being first and foremost a moneymaking one for both corporations involved ? would make it oh-so-easy for folks to buy music over the Web when ?on the go.?
Well, at least for folks who don?t mind stepping into a Starbucks at some point during their day and don?t mind buying music from the [...]

While we did inform you about its announcement earlier this month and filled you in on pretty much all of the important details concerning its functions and whatnot, we thought you?d like to know that the iTunes WiFi Music Store has officially gone live. It is accessible via both the iPhone and the iPod touch.
Apple certainly isn?t bringing to the fore something that other businesses in the tech sphere haven?t done themselves. The iTunes WiFi Music Store [...]

It looks like automated audio blogging is growing increasingly popular these days. We reviewed Odiogo back in January, recently we have also talked about Talkr and when browsing podcasting apps on Simple Spark, the Web 2.0 categorized catalogue I was so impressed with on Thursday I have found another similar application named BlueGrind. This product has not been reviewed on Profy but anyway it is really a very new service (it only has a handful of already registered feeds and [...]

In February of this year, Evan Williams, the mind behind Odeo, a podcast-centric startup, put his business up on the auction block. Here we are several months later, and he’s got a buyer: New York-based SonicMountain. The new owner of the audio aggregator allegedly forked over just north of $1 million in cash for the whole nine yards.
Upon hearing this news, many of you familiar with Ev Williams and his ideas might be wondering whether Twitter, the abomination public blog [...]