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Spotify’s Daniel Ek: “The Most Important Man In Music”

Forbes.com has a long article on Spotify’s Daniel Ek.

“Next week (this week) he’s scheduled to return to New York to unveil Spotify’s new platform in front of his first-ever press conference—a platform that he admits still isn’t ready for a public debut.”

I’m been playing with the Spotify app beta for a while now [...]

Google Music

http://www.fastcompany.com//1799610/google-music-geeks-try-to-show-they-love-music-more-than-algorithms

It’ll be interesting to check out at least.  I’m sure Google has the talent and cash to give this a serious run but the execution is pretty important.  There is a fine line between being too simple for the masses, who only have 500 songs total, and the small percentage who have 50,000 songs. [...]

Jawbone Jambox, a nifty, portable, wireless speaker for your iPhone or other bluetooth device

Jawbone JAMBOX (Black Diamond)

I decided to try out this highly rated bluetooth speaker for my iPad and iPhone and was shocked at its ease of use, sound quality, small footprint, portability and long battery life. I liked the choice of colors which makes these small speakers standout and easy to spot. When I [...]

Live Nation magazine subscription scam duping customers out of $14.99 per purchase

Please beware that when purchasing tickets to certain events via Live Nation (Ticketmaster) you are very easily be duped into a “bonus” or “complimentary” magazine subscription. Why is this a scam?

First of all, yes, Live Nation gives you the option to ‘opt out’ of this “complimentary” subscription but it’s listed under “Privacy Information”. It [...]

Recording Studios Face Uncertain Future (NPR)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121304883

Here is an interesting story on how digital recording (your laptop) is replacing expensive recording studios. There is a 6 minute audio segment from NPR at the top of the above link.

“”The real value for most bands isn’t the equipment,” says McTear. “A guy at Guitar Center or Sam Ash would like you [...]

Apple buys LaLa.com but I’m sure I still won’t get my dream features

Apple has bought online streaming music service LaLa.com.   While this surely changes the game, I’d really like to see a site offer the depth of features that I’ve been dreaming about for at least 4 years now.  Yet I don’t even see people trying.  I can’t be the only one with these ideas in [...]

MOG introduces All Access on demand music for $5 a month

“Today MOG launched MOG All Access, a revolutionary new online music listening service unrivaled in quality and ease-of-use.

MOG All Access is the extraordinary music listening service we full-time music fans have always wanted. You can listen to just about every album and song you can imagine (about 6 million songs), all-you-can-eat and on-demand for [...]

Microsoft replacement of black man causes uproar over a common advertising practice

Microsoft recently used a different version of a photo within an ad for two different markets. Apparently this has caused an uproar, Microsoft has apologized, and replaced the changed photo.

huffingtonpost.com

All they did was photoshop out a black man and replaced him with a white man. Advertisers and marketers have been doing this [...]

interesting last.fm tools

last.fm – Chart to M3U Playlist Generator: http://lastm3u.powha.net/

chart/graph your music taste: http://lastgraph.aeracode.org/

Fetch your Last.fm data, munge it and then do wonderful things: http://l.alanedwardes.com/my/

Visualise Last.fm’s network of similar artists and bands: http://pattie.fe.up.pt/i_know_that_artist/

find music on twitter

http://musebin.ws/ http://twisten.fm/

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