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SoundCloud launches completely rewritten Web app in private beta
SoundCloud unveiled the next version of its service at a press event in San Francisco Wednesday, which was launched in private beta at the event.
SoundCloud, the up-and-coming social audio publishing platform, is endorsing HTML5's role in the future of the Web.
SoundCloud Goes HTML5, Makes Non-Flash Audio Player Its Default
SoundCloud Reaches 10 Million Registered Users
Music-sharing platform SoundCloud has reached 10 million registered users, the company announced. SoundCloud also boasts 5 million downloaded mobile apps and 10,000 apps developed on SoundCloud’s open platform.
On Monday Soundcloud released Storywheel.cc, which allows users to create narrated, retro-looking slide shows with their Instagram pictures. Alexander Ljung, the co-founder and CEO of the Berlin-based startup, said the company is releasing the mashup of the two services to celebrate an important milestone: Soundcloud now has ten million registered users.
Soundcloud turns Instagram pics into retro slide shows — Tech News and Analysis
SoundCloud raises $50 million round led by Kleiner Perkins
SoundCloud has raised a new fundraising round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The amount was not released but TechCrunch understands it to be $50 million. This would give the company a $200 million pre-money valuation.SoundCloud Launches a Sleek, Super-Functional iPad App
The social audio sharing site SoundCloud upgraded its iOS app today, adding a tablet-friendly UI for iPad users. The app lets users find and listen to tracks, comment on waveforms, connect with others and record audio using the iPad's microphone.
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A few months after it began operating, SoundCloud began to challenge the dominance of MySpace as a platform for musicians to distribute their music by allowing recording artists to interact more nimbly with their fans. [ 3 ] In a 2009 interview with Wired , co-founder Alex Ljung said: “We both came from backgrounds connected to music, and it was just really, really annoying for us to collaborate with people on music — I mean simple collaboration, just sending tracks to other people in a private setting, getting some feedback from them, and having a conversation about that piece of music. In the same way that we’d be using Flickr for our photos, and Vimeo for our videos, we didn’t have that kind of platform for our music.” [ 3 ]SoundCloud is a great tool for sharing your music with others if you're in the music business, and thanks to that it's also an excellent community for finding new, free tracks for your listening pleasure. Once you sign up you'll be encouraged to upload your own tracks and send them around. This is very quick and easy to do if you've got your own music (that you wrote) to share.
SoundCloud Helps you Share & Discover New, Free Music
SoundCloud Threatens MySpace
In a few short months SoundCloud has begun to give mighty MySpace a run for the hearts and minds of recording artists eager to interact more nimbly with fans than is possible on the giant social network which has, for the past five years, been the de facto online platform for musicians. Sonic Youth used SoundCloud to stream their latest album via Twitter while Moby uses it to promote his latest tracks on his site rather than on MySpace. And when Beck decided to trash his so-five-years-ago Flash-based site and start over with simple pages heavy on high-quality content and light on everything else, he too turned to SoundCloud. SoundCloud sounds like an obvious idea — like every good one does once somebody else has it.
Mike Butcher is the European Editor for TechCrunch. A former grunge rock drummer, he became a long time journalist, and has since written for UK national newspapers and magazines including The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The New Statesman.
Soundcloud teams up with Hype Machine
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Now a million on SoundCloud
Just the other day we declared 2011 “The year of social audio”, and new figures from SoundCloud today seem to bear that out. The audio sharing platform has announced that it has reached 3 million registered users. On its own, that sounds like a large number, but when you factor in that user numbers have grown by 1 million in under 100 days, that’s some growth spike for the startup that was founded in August 2007. The news follows a “Global Meetup Day” yesterday, where the startup’s users staged gatherings in 517 cities around the world.
SoundCloud hits 3 Million users
Soundcloud Hits 5 Million Registered Users
Music-sharing platform Soundcloud has become mighty noisy over the past year by adding 4 million registered users in one year, which now brings it to the 5 million user mark. This comes just a few months after the company announced 3 million users . Soundcloud , which reports that it is currently adding 20,000 registered users per day, has innovated a lot during the past year after launching in 2008. It released both iPhone and Android applications, as well as a Mac App , and added the ability to record directly from all of its platforms. Its API has also been integrated across an array of social tools, including popular blogging platform Tumblr .There are no shortage of consumption apps on the Web, especially since the iPad (in many ways the ultimate Web consumption device) arrived on the scene. But what about content creation apps ? In the Web 2.0 era, we saw the rise of blogging platforms, social networks, and media sharing services like Flickr and YouTube. Some people say that 2011 will be about content curation , via services like Twitter and Tumblr. But I think there's still a lot of action in the content creation space. I'll be exploring some of the best and most promising content creation services over the coming weeks here on ReadWriteWeb, in a series called 'The Creative Web.'