Posts Tagged with ‘music’

OurStage is a well done community talent contest. Users post videos or songs and the rest of the community votes on them. The top of each channel gets a $100 prize at the end of the month, and the entry with the most votes out of all the channels gets the grand prize of $5,000 each month. Their site makes it practically impossible to cheat, so artists with the most votes really have votes from the same amount of people [...]

Looking for new music to listen to that once discovered, you can actually download and keep for free? Goombah, a site that analyzes your music taste based on your iTunes library, just launched their Radio Free Goombah service. This allows you to download songs to play anywhere and post anywhere in widget form. They also just signed a deal with the Independent Online Distribution Alliance, adding even more songs for users to download for free.
Now, Goombah has 7 million tracks [...]

Taking collaboration to the next level, the band Placebo is using video-sharing site Motionbox to create their latest music video for release in US markets. The promotion, called Placebo Starring You, provides fans of the group with an instrumental version of their latest single, Running Up That Hill, as well as lyrics. Fans can then create a video of themselves singing the song along with the music and upload it to Motionbox for possible inclusion in the video.
The deadline for [...]

 
So, Odeo founder Ev Williams has put his website up for sale. Anyone care? We do. Odeo may not have been the most popular kid in school, and even got picked on by that bully in Cupertino (Apple). But it has served many a podcast and podcaster well. Though its visitorship pales in comparison to iTunes, it’s still seeing over 600k hello messages from IPs around the world every month, and doling out 3 million pages/audio files to fans with [...]

Known for its ease of use, diverse selection of news/items of interest to millions of people, its attractive interface and features, and most of all its communal, Web 2.0-ness, Digg and its success in gathering together one of the largest social networks [with a purpose] over a short few years in this post-bubble, new boom era we’re in, is hedged on its base: Diggers.
They feed the fire, they aggregate the headlines faster than New York Times gets the story (of [...]

Announcement: Steve Jobs has announced at the 2007 Macworld conference in San Francisco a new breakthrough device from Apple Inc. - the iPhone. This sleek new device is a Widescreen iPod, GSM Phone as well as an Internet device running the FULL OS X operating system and a 2 megapixal camera.
Rarely is there a technology announcement which truly catches the world attention. The closest thing in recent years was the announcement of the Apple iPod having video capabilities in October [...]

 
A new independent music ratings web site was just launched called RateThisTune.com. Friday’s press release via PRWeb, touts the site as essentially “industry changing”. I admit the new site is different and interesting, but it is not that interesting! This new site allows new musicians to upload their talent to be rated by site visitors, and allows some free downloads of favorite songs. 
What makes the site different from other discovery sites (according to the release), is that visitors are encouraged to rate [...]

There is a brand-spanking-new online community, where you can listen to or mix music from a variety of sources. This website was just launched out of a private beta testing, which was obviously successful. The site’s functionality is very similar to SpliceMusic, but the user interface at Jamglue is more flexible and friendly. The site uses a Flash based mixing board and an XML file to allow data nesting, for a very flexible mixing capability. Beyond the bells and whistles, Jamglue allows users to play [...]

Earlier this month Delta Taph published a post about Webmunism. Last week I received from them an update on Webmunism passing to the next stage of their beta.
As you might remember from the previous post (or from your own use of the website), Webmunism is a blend of search engine and multimedia gallery which automatically categorizes photos, videos, audio albums and books into groups called Webmunes. Below I have pasted a screenshot of a webmune called Travel.

So what’s actually new [...]