Posts Tagged with ‘pandora’

I think the very first icon I clicked on my iPhone was the one for the App Store. After all the hype for the App Store, I wanted to know exactly what ELSE I could be doing with the phone besides what Apple intended.
Available through both the iPhone as well as the iTunes Store, the apps are sorted into categories for easier browsing, as well as other lists such as most recently added and most downloaded. Prices are clearly marked, [...]

It seems odd for this child of the 80s to type that Peter Gabriel has become a technology investor. All this time I thought he wanted to be my sledgehammer, and it turns out he wanted to be my filter instead. That doesn't sound nearly as exciting, does it?
It may not sound exciting, but the concept of directing the stream of information online and filtering the noise is about as exciting as it gets in social media right now. We [...]

Is it the end of old media as we know it?* R.E.M. has a new album dropping 1 April, but for those of us already using iLike with iTunes or our Facebook or MySpace accounts, we are in luck; 11 tracks from the album will be available for streaming and sharing a week from today (Monday, 24 March), one week before the album's release date.
R.E.M.'s release may be the highest profile use of digital distribution yet, and the surest sign [...]

The social music and online radio site known as Jango has proved to be quite the popular newcomer, having announced today that the free service has more than 1 million listeners who have created a total of more than 3 million custom Internet radio stations.
Pretty impressive news for a service which only publicly launched just two short months ago. Even more impressive are the stats available from Compete.com, which show that Jango is already aimed at similar well-established services in [...]

We first covered Jango in late October. We published a brief review of the startup, in which we essentially laid out an admiring conclusion overall. How to sum it up? Basically, we found it to be an appealing play on the Pandora concept, one with a rather unique approach. Its feature set could also be said to harbor a few touches new to the market.
And in addition to its initial launch setup, we also received a few words about its [...]

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 [...]

I gotta be honest. I didn’t think it would happen. But it did.
The Web was abuzz with glee yesterday after news to do with a Congressional hearing, first broken to the world Thursday evening, filtered through to inboxes and RSS readers throughout the US – and even the world.
The topic of discussion at the congressional hearing was the rate hike(s) proposed months prior by SoundExchange. It was originally slated to be put into effect this Sunday. “Was” is the detail [...]

Pandora, the wonderful online custom radio service, will soon be treading very deep water if and when the Copyright Royalty Board of the United States Library of Congress institutes the proposed internet radio rate hike in a number of weeks. So the company has to keep ahead of the game by an extra few feet at all times. Its newest move may prove smart enough to ensure that the company has quite a bit of life left [...]

Internet radio stations aren’t having the best of times at the moment. They continue to be astonished at the Copyright Royalty Board’s (Part of the US Library of Congress) decision to hike up the playback fees asked of them just as the medium is starting to catch on as a viable alternative to the FM and AM transmission methods.
One of the most popular venues for streaming audio, Pandora, has been among the parties who’ve voiced the loudest protests [...]