Tag Archives: Music Industry Trends

PandoraOne, Desktop Apps and Premium Services.

Posted on 25. May, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

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Inspired by the launch of the slick NYTReader app, TechFold opens a provocative debate on the “death” of the browser and the role of desktop applications.

Apps according to Edwards offer many advantages over a simple browser site:

  • “Apps can provide a better user experience than generalist browsers.
  • Apps help companies “own” the user relationship – branding, formatting, metrics, and the like.
  • They also enforce loyalty, or at least habitual usage – the presence of an icon on your desktop or in your Start menu is a powerful call to action.”

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Weekly Digest on the Music Industry – May 24, 2009

Posted on 25. May, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

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COMPANIES

ARTISTS

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2009 SanFrancisco MusicTech Summit

Posted on 24. May, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

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The annual San Francisco Music Tech Summit collects experts and entrepreneurs dealing with the ways technology is transforming the music industry.

A few highlights from this year’s edition gathered throughout the blogo/twittershepere:

-A RIVER OF (SMARTER) DATA

Digital music is still in its infancy. There’s definitely more than playlists, music in the cloud and artist pages. And a few innovative companies promise to have the answer.

-Say good-bye to editorial picks and dummy collaborative filtering. The future is a gigantic “music brain” that is fed by the massive river of unstructured information that is the Internet in a continuous learning process.

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The new age of streaming is officially here.

Posted on 19. May, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

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napster

Napster started the music revolution 10 years ago with its file-sharing network. Today’s announcement on the roll-out of a $5 subscription for 5 downloads and unlimited streaming might not sound as epic.

But the fact of the matter is that it officially sanctions the shift from Downloads to Streaming.  From Ownership to Access.

We are not yet into the full-fledged Access Era as depicted by Caraeff and Masnick with interactive listening and your library in the cloud.

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Artists Against…

Posted on 18. May, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

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A BLANK CD

Producer Danger Mouse and rocker Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse have decided to go against EMI legal threats and release their new CD, Dark Night of the Souls, as a blank CD  reading, “For Legal Reasons, enclosed CD-R contains no music. Use it as you will.” The CD comes with a book of photos provided by film-maker David Lynch.

The album, which has been one of the most hotly anticipated albums of 2009, features Iggy Pop, Black Francis (of the Pixies), the Flaming Lips, Jason Lytle, James Mercer (of the Shins), and Julian Casablancas (of the Strokes) and others all contributing original material.

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Weekly Digest on the Music Industry – May 17, 2009

Posted on 18. May, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

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BREAKING NEWS

French National Assembly Adopts 3 Strikes Law

iLike Launches Custom iPhone Apps, Syndication Platform To Help Artists Connect With Fans

Imeem About To Expand iPhone Music Storage By Way Of The Cloud

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OPINIONS AND REPORTS

Seth Godin: Another View Of Free

Bruce Houghton: Despite The All The Gloom And Doom I’m Still Optimistic About The Music Industry

Is the Long Tail really long?

Not just a matter of semantics:about “pirates” and “theft” in the music industry.

Spotify CEO interview :P ortability and subscriptions to a social music experience as key future developments.

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Weekly Digest on the Music Industry – May 2, 2009

Posted on 03. May, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

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BREAKING NEWS

A week dense of social networks ‘ announcements

FACEBOOK COLONIZATION

April 28th is a date to remember. Facebook launched the Open Stream API: it’s the start of the Facebook experience extending beyond the Facebook walls. Now any developer can create new applications incorporating the real-time stream.

One of the first apps to take advantage of this new API is Seesmic Desktop.

Another example is a demo of Silverlight+ Facebook Stream, that has wowed the lucky Techcrunch viewers: Microsoft Shows Off The Power Of Facebook’s New APIs

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The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet

Posted on 02. May, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

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If you talk about the Music Industry, one word you will hear for sure -and a lot- is Crisis. In its most positive connotation, a crisis is a turning point that triggers some radical changes. So with a crisis come opportunities.

That seems to be the gist of the speech Mike Masnick, editor of TechDirt, gave at the at the Leadership Music Digital Summit.

In front of an audience, featuring RIAA top execs and the 4 big labels, Masnick, who is a long time advocate of the “Free Music” theory, talks about the latest and greatest from Trent Reznor, the front man of NineInchNails ,who has been experimenting with disruptive models where record labels and copyright are not needed anymore.

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Weekly Digest on the Music Industry – April 19, 2009

Posted on 19. Apr, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

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BREAKING NEWS

The Pirate Bay Verdict: guilty

-Wired: Why File Sharing Will save Hollywood, Music.

A good read on the importance of sites like The Pirate Bay “The complete DNA of social media was right there, from the very start of P2P”: buddy lists, user uploads, filtering content by user, viral marketing, ad-supported content and the potential of mining valuable data. “Even as the content industry celebrates another false victory over file sharing, the world is moving on, to cloud-based, on-demand streaming services — some licensed — where you can hear music and watch videos faster and in a more social way than you can with bit torrent. And as content holders look to monetize those networks, P2P networks provide the only useful template, because they share so many characteristics with today’s social-media networks”

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Pirate Bay Guilty Verdict – So What’s Next for the Music Industry?

Posted on 17. Apr, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

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It’s official. A Swedish court has found four men behind the BitTorrent tracker the Pirate Bay guilty of assisting in making copyrighted material available and sentenced each of them to a year in jail. They were also ordered to pay damages of 30 million kronor ($3.54 million) to the film and music industries by Stockholm district court. Plaintiffs included Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Bros., EMI Music and Columbia Pictures.

The Swedish and international music industry has welcomed today’s (April 17) verdict against Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde. The Pirate Bay is the most notorious site used for searching P2P downloads of music and films, claiming 22 million users in February.

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