FaceSpot? Facebook and Spotify partner up – rumours say The story that caused the most buzz this week was the rumour that Spotify and Facebook are to launch a music service together. The origin of the rumour was a piece in Forbes written by Parmy Olsen. Olsen writes that the service “could be launched in […]
Google Music now in live beta The biggest news this week was the Google unveiling of their music cloud service. Just like Amazon’s Cloud Player, the Google service is launched without the backing of any label deals. The Amazon and Google Music services works in similar ways. What you get is a place in the cloud […]
Spotify opens download store and syncs with your iPod. Spotify has been all over the digital music news this week, and for good reason. The most recent update to the platform is huge. Here’s a break down: A new a la carte download store – Built in-house, covering the whole Spotify catalogue Wireless syncing with […]
DIY is a fine ambition but… David Dufresne of Bandzoogle organised a talk at SXSW and the description highlighted the nature of the DIY problem, misunderstood by so many. I think the sheer complexity of it all is too often forgotten. It’s probably wise to stay mindful of the challenges this brave new world poses, […]
Spotify Signs Sony to U.S. Deal Spotify has finally signed with Sony for a U.S. distribution deal. According to rumours, the terms for the U.S. Service is the same as the one Spotify offers in Europe, which is a bit of a surprise. This is good news for Spotify and I hope this can prove […]
Moontoast – new music app for Facebook There is a new Facebook Music App in town. The slightly esoteric named app is called Moontoast, and promises that Facebook fans can listen, share and buy without leaving the site. Moontoast intend to survive by charging content owners 15% of the transaction. This reminds me of the […]
Labels threaten to leave Spotify There has been a lot of Spotify in the news this week. Naxos, one of the largest labels in the world in the field of classical music, and ECM – also a big player in the classical genre, as well as in jazz – both threaten to pull their catalogues […]
Media Powerhouses move to e-commerce As subscribers to ”old media” newspapers plummet, the media powerhouses are looking for new sources of revenue. Increasingly, they are looking to sell stuff, usually stuff associated with the editorial content. With fully developed e-commerce solutions and a customer base counted in the hundreds of thousands, this makes perfect sense. […]
Rumors say MySpace will be killed soon MySpace has a relaunch coming up. But will this help? Observers say no. I for one truly think that MySpace is doomed. Should someone purchase this train wreck, they would need to rebuild so much of the damn thing that not much of the old MySpace would be […]
Rumors on Spotify Sell Out denied Spotify’s reaction to the Apple rumor: “We have absolutely no intention of selling Spotify. We’re working hard to build the best music service we can and are in this for the long haul”. Interesting, to say the least. Facebook To Adopt New PayPal Micropayment Service PayPal is really on […]
You’ve heard it before: If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it does it make a sound? The boring answer is of course: “Uh, well..yeah”, but what the query is hinting at is the nature of reality. Apparently it was the Irish philosopher George Berkeley who posed the question. Berkeley’s dictum […]
