Posts Tagged with ‘music’

Sure there are already social music communities and marketplaces for independent artists, but Oomix offers users a major twist.
Oomix, currently in a beta pre-launch stage, is aiming to spur some musical creativity by connecting artists around the world and bringing them together on one site to collaborate.
This service allows anyone to post their own instrumental or vocal tracks on the site as well as listen to the uploaded tracks of others. Once joining as a musician, band, or record label, [...]

By now you’ve probably gotten a bit familiar already with OiNK, a peer-to-peer venue that recently had itself publicly manhandled and forced offline by both Dutch and English authorities last week. And you’ve likely received word that The Pirate Bay promised to “re-launch” the operation, albeit with a ‘B’ added to its title (so “BOiNK” will be its new name; cheeky, eh?).
Well, today you’re going to get another little factoid to add to your daily dose of nifty news to [...]

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 [...]

There’s Amazon and its copycats for the online retail of physical goods (leaving aside the fact that Amazon is now working the intangible side of the digital retail world as well). Why not erect something similarly multifaceted (in the way that Amazon sells different types of goods and not only books) without involving so much as a cardboard box or a pint of diesel between seller and buyer?
That’s what the folks being Zipidee (I’m not fond of the [...]

Another piece for you today about media and pricing, this one a rebuttal to TechCrunch editor and proprietor Michael Arrington?s insistence that recorded music is heading toward an existence as a ?free? commodity.
Firstly, I must say I agree with several of Mr Arrington?s points, one being that DRM is headed on a downward spiral to eventual eradication, and another that CDs sales are plummeting as well.
But there?s a portion of his argument that I can?t possibly accept, which has to [...]

When NBC’s CEO Jeff Zucker took time Wednesday to stand atop his company’s soapbox, he said something quite true: that copyright owners are in fact “losing the battle” against the world’s digital pirates.
What he failed to follow his statement up with, however, is that it’s really no use fighting the copyright violators (which, I might add, he said most certainly should be done, and perhaps exponentially more forcefully), and that it’d be far more effective and financially beneficial for [...]

My friends at Me.dium are some of the coolest people on the planet, and their latest “real time” mosh pit RockMe.dium proves it. RockMe is a five day music festival designed to allow fans to interact with artists and industry gurus. The event began today and is a unique online social experience where Web destinations and unique content are being debuted in conjunction with the Me.dium interactive Web window. RockMe runs from today through Saturday.
Until now there has really [...]

Sony’s once sterling reputation has in recent years caked on quite a bit of mud. It’s dealt with a backlash from consumers over underhanded rootkit installations made to consumers’ PCs. It’s seen its Walkman heritage fade every so painfully to become what many would agree is now, when juxtaposed against the all-powerful iPod-iTunes duopoly, just another second-class. And just last week the company announced that it is shelving the ATRAC file format it stubbornly held onto since as far [...]

Did you find it at all strange or perhaps a touch disappointing to find the world of cellular phone makers seemingly sitting around idly as Apple debuted it’s “revolutionary” mobile touch screen device back in late June? It was quite bizarre actually. There they were, about four or five big-name handset manufacturers – not to mention the creators of widely implemented mobile operating systems – none of which had anything close to an alluring answer to Cupertino’s finest new gadgetry.
Well, [...]