RDIO: Here's How We're Going To Beat Spotify When It Comes To The States. Rdio relaunches with new web UI and revamped desktop apps.
SoundCloud. Spotify. Turntable. Can Crowdsourcing Make Any Dream Come True? When's the last time you got something just because you asked for it?
That's the premise behind Wish Upon a Hero, an online platform that allows anyone to post — or grant — a wish. It's an interesting experiment in crowdsourced social good. Apple's Deals May Transform Digital Music. (Corrects spelling of Russ Crupnick) Compared with buying e-books, building a digital music collection is a hassle.
E-books zip directly to reading devices like the Kindle and Nook and are backed up "in the cloud"—on the servers of Amazon.com (AMZN) and Barnes & Noble (BKS). A digital song, on the other hand, is typically downloaded to a PC and must then be manually transferred to an iPod or mobile phone. If you lose your Kindle, you can always download an e-book again; if the PC crashes or the iPod falls into the bathtub, the song goes down with it.