Lecastel.tumblr. Instagram. Um homem lê seu jornal #saturday #saopaulo #park. Instagram. Essa vida de funcionária do mês #office. Photo by lecastel. Edição de aniversário gorda #party #champanhe. Amazon, Music, And A Sunny Forecast For The Cloud. Editor’s note: Guest author David Porter is the CEO and founder of 8tracks, the handcrafted internet radio network. Last week, Amazon launched its Cloud Drive, with an emphasis on music storage. While there have been a number of “jukebox” services these last 10 years (Napster 2.0, MusicNow, Virgin Digital, Yahoo Music Unlimited, MTV Urge, MOG, Spotify, Thumbplay, Rdio), relatively few “locker” offerings have emerged—although rumors of new locker services from Apple and Google sound promising.
Last week, Amazon leapt ahead of both rivals in launching Cloud Drive, a service that allows you to stream, for free, any songs purchased from Amazon. It also allows you to upload up to 5GB from your existing music collection for free storage and streaming; if you pay an additional $1 (or more) per year, you get an incremental 1GB (or more) of storage. Amazon has not (yet, at least) negotiated direct licenses with content owners for Cloud Drive. Morrissey lançará duas músicas inéditas - cultura - Estadao.com.br. Radiohead To Release "World's First Newspaper Album" Radiohead, a band well-known for its marketing strategies as well as its music, has announced the release of "The World's First Newspaper album. " The band announced that its new album, King of Limbs, will be available for download February 19, on its website this morning.
Described as the "Newspaper Album," King of Limbs comes in the form of two 10-inch vinyl records in a "purpose-built record-sleeve," a CD and "many large sheets of artwork, 625 tiny pieces of artwork and a full-colour piece of oxo-degredeable plastic to hold it all together. " The price for the hard copy: $48 when sold with an MP3 download of the album, and $53 when sold with the WAV download. The discs and vinyls will ship May 9, while the digital downloads will be available February 19. Customers also have an option to purchase the album in download-only form. The move comes after Radiohead challenged music industry pricing with its October 2007 release of In Rainbows. Global Lyrics API To Offer Developers More Than 5 Million Lyrics.
MusiXmatch, a provider of digital lyrics solutions, announced at Midem 2011 new partnerships with BMG, Kobalt, Universal Music Publishing Group and Sony ATV Music, making musiXmatch the largest authorized lyrics database in the world, according to the company. MusiXmatch, now replete with 5 million lyrics, is today launching a commercial beta that will let developers legally integrate lyrics into their applications. In a statement, musiXmatch claims to be the only lyrics API to fully offer international rights management. “The search term for lyrics drives more traffic than any other term on Google,” says Max Ciociola, CEO and founder of musiXmatch.
“MusiXmatch gives developers the lyrics that they need to create deeper and more engaging online music experiences. " The online lyrics space has existed in a rather shady area for the large part; the quality of lyrics can be spotty, and often they are presented sans rights. Photo courtesy of Flickr, jayneandd. Music Industry Will Force Licenses on Amazon Cloud Player — or Else | Epicenter
Amazon’s decision to launch its new Cloud Player without securing additional music licenses has been described as a “bold move” by many observers. It takes serious guts for Amazon to simply declare that it doesn’t need licenses — especially when even casual observers know the music industry thinks otherwise. Still, this isn’t a one-dimensional issue, and the law has yet to deal much with services like Amazon’s. Record companies fantasize about huge revenues from streaming services, and they fear digital lockers like the plague.
‘The word streaming and the word download are nowhere in copyright law’ — MP3tunes’ CEO Michael Robertson If the record labels don’t come to a licensing agreement with Amazon soon, they will either be forced to take legal action or implicitly allow other music companies to ditch cloud licenses too. Amazon launched two new services, Cloud Drive and Cloud Player, earlier this week. Continue reading … MySpace se pone a la venta · ELPAÍS.com. MySpace cambia de logo. MySpace cambia de jefe. MySpace echa a la mitad . MySpace, en venta. La primera gran red social de Internet, allí donde había que estar si eras joven y/o músico, ha perdido gente, influencia, publicidad y, sobre todo, dinero. Creada por Chris DeWolfe y Tom Anderson en 2003, su popularidad creció meteóricamente hasta 2007, cuando llegó a 70 millones de usuarios.
La nueva forma en que los internautas actuaban en la Red, colocando ellos los contenidos, llamó la atención de Rupert Murdoch, el magnate de la Fox, que en 2005 compró el sitio por 585 millones de dólares (437 millones de euros de hoy). El declive de la primera gran red social es pararelo al ascenso de Facebook Murdoch, propietario de cadenas de periódicos y televisiones de todo el mundo, apostaba fuerte por Internet y, concretamente, por MySpace.
De nada han valido en estos años los relevos de ejecutivos, los cambios de logos y diseños. "En España hicimos la reconversión hace un año. Let’s Buy Myspace. You’ve seen the news, the once mighty social network MySpace is all but dead, the company recently cut half of its worldwide workforce with traffic falling month on month. With reports that Jack Kennedy, EVP of operations for News Corp Digital Media, has been given the task of looking for a potential buyer of the website, rumours have circulated that online gaming company Zynga could be poised to make a bid. Over the past week, we have noticed more and more mentions of a new bidder, an organisation that is looking to crowdsource donations to collectively buy the stricken website and inject some fresh impetus.
The name of the site? Let’s Buy MySpace. We caught up with the creator of the site, Adam Noakes, an online marketing strategist, who having known MySpace’s former glories was shocked at how the site lost direction, so wanted to do something about it. Considering MySpace doesn’t have a fixed price, attempting to buy the web property is a difficult challenge. It’s a long shot. Your Music In The Cloud No More – blueTunes Keels Over, Dies. It took a bit longer than we thought, but the inevitable has happened: blueTunes is calling it quits. A message posted on the website reads: We have decided to pursue other opportunities and will be shutting down our service on January 31, 2011.
Thanks for supporting us and for all you’ve done. In an email to users, blueTunes founders Nick Alexander and Andrew First acknowledge that, after two years, the service will cease to operate at the end of the month. All user data will be deleted, but anyone who wants to download their data before that happens is invited to get in touch with them. BlueTunes let you scan your hard drive for music files and upload them to the site’s servers, after which you could stream your music from wherever you are. The startup’s technology, which it said was patent-pending, was able to match uploaded music files against a user network-wide database for existing copies of an album or track in order to speed up the file uploading process.
MusiXmatch – The next generation Song Lyrics API – Music, Lyrics.