Posts Tagged with ‘mog’

After purchasing Last.FM for a cool $280 Million USD last year, CBS kept its plans for the company close to the vest. The company held a press conference today to reveal the direction it was taking its acquisition. Some sites have speculated that the big secret was going to be video on demand, but that wasn't the case (at least not yet).
The news from CBS today was that they were making Last.FM into a streaming audio service. After [...]

Recent addition to the social network scene is Trig, a social network that focuses entirely on music and music fans. It has a rock star design that grabs your eye right off the bat, and is filled with local talent. It's gaining fans from across the Internet by giving talent a place to get discovered or to increase their audience, and giving music lovers a chance to find more music to love.
Trig is competing with other social networking music [...]

There are a vast array of music social networks out there to choose from. The three heavy hitters in the social music site scene right now seem to be iLike, Last.FM and MOG. I didn't include iLike in this comparison, because it lacks some of the features that MOG and Last.FM offer and seems to be most useful on existing social networking sites like Facebook.
Last.FM got my attention first. I installed the small widget that “talks” to the Last.FM [...]

… So what's the 3.0 model? Believe it or not, Rick Rubin knows.
When I first saw the headline for Rick Rubin's comments, I'm pretty sure I laughed out loud and rolled my eyes. But Rubin isn't someone to be scoffed at in the music industry; after all, this is a man who foresaw the popularity of hip-hop and rap. There's a reason an artist like the late Johnny Cash would turn to Rubin for a career boost; the man knows [...]

When it comes to the social side of Web 2.0 – you know, the MySpaces, the Facebooks – I’m lost. I do very well understand why such places exist, I simply cannot for the life of me grasp why they’ve become so popular, and, furthermore, managed to remain so. Baffling, really. When I consider all the time misspent maintaining relations with “friends” lists, most of whose contacts hold no real allegiance to one another anyhow, I wonder how such holes [...]

Today’s top social networks are many things. They’re popular, obviously. They’re also pretty powerful, relatively speaking. And they offer a lot of stuff in one place. Some might say too much stuff. Nonetheless, a great many people seem to find the overload to be a sign of strength.
There’s one thing, however, that the top guns in the game don’t excel with: design.
Yes, design. The field of work that (ideally) blends artistry and engineering together into products as pleasing to [...]

In a piece published yesterday here on Profy, we mentioned Apple?s curious shift toward acceptance of Web app development, if only to appease the wolves in the third-party universe eager to make themselves at home on the iPhone platform. In short, Mr Jobs told the world of Web 2.0 to get coding, because they now have a chance to get their feet in what could be a very big door before even so much as a morsel of an [...]

Some would say there are a touch too many social networks planted throughout the “tubes” of our planet. Some would be right. But there are a few networks that serve particular purposes and do a good job of catering to their target demographic. So there’s reason to ask if, among the MySpaces and the MOGs, there exists a network friendly to the many children who’ve grown up connected to the Web from their earliest days of coherence? If one has [...]

As if we don’t have enough already.
It’s fine if there are half a dozen big name social networks scattered across the Net. Twelve big- and medium-sized entities, maybe. A few more than that is pushing it. But there are many, many more than that currently in existence, with a good supply still in the works. Familiar with the word “overabundance”? That’s what we’ve got on our hands right now, and there’s no end in sight.
So you’ll have to forgive the [...]