Lala acquistato da Apple: 5 possibili motivi

Notizia fresca fresca e giustamente c’è già chi ha pensato cosa potrebbe voler dire questo acquisto e quali potrebbero essere i motivi principali.

5 ne hanno trovati quelli di Puddlegum

1. iTunes in the Cloud
2. Streaming Music on your iPhone or Touch
3. Web Songs and Web Albums
4. Social Networking and iTunes
5. iTunes and Google

[Confermato] Apple acquista Lala – streaming in arrivo?

Dopo le indiscrezioni di ieri arriva la conferma: Apple ha acquistato Lala.

Ricordo che Lala oltre ad offire download di musica digitale, offre anche un servizio di streaming illimitato (abbonamento a 10 dollari)

Steve Dowling di Apple non si lascia scappare indiscrezioni a riguardo (“Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time and we generally do not comment on our purpose or plan” ma in molti iniziano a pensare che sia una mossa per portare lo streaming anche su iTunes vista la concorrenza sempre maggiore di servizi di streaming musicale (vedi Spotify)

Mewbox: sfida a iTunes su Android

Il dominio dell’ iPhone è sotto gli occhi di tutti, ma va riconosciuto che anche Google e il suo OS basato su Linux si danno da fare.

Su Android mancava un servizio similare a iTunes, ecco quindi che in molti aspettano con ansia il nuovo servizio per Android chiamato Mewbox. Neil MacManus di Mewbox dice che il suo progetto sarà differente da iTunes e punterà su un’interfaccia più intuitiva, blog, news, consigli, biglietti gratuiti, anteprime, recensioni ecc…

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Gigzee: Applicazione iPhone per i concerti

L’idea è semplice (simile a iConcertCal): L’applicazione iPhone, sfruttando il sistema GPS interno, restituisce i concerti e i live show che hanno luogo (o che avranno luogo nel giro di 2 giorni) nelle vicinanze di dove l’utente si trova

Tunecore’s Facebook vs MySpace

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Facebook’s Appeal
1. Ease of Use, Networking
2. Clean and Organized
3. Dynamic Interface
4. The Status Bar
5. Less Spam
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Why MySpace still holds the spotlight for music

Facebook was not originally intended to be a music website – when it was growing in popularity, in still did not have working music players. Some applications were slowly introduced that allowed people to play their own music on their profile pages, but it didn’t allow bands to create pages. Bands could make fan groups, but couldn’t play music on the actual pages.

MySpace was still everyone’s #1 destination if they wanted to hear music – and the plus side was you didn’t have to be a member of MySpace to visit a band’s profile.

Facebook soon gave into the pressure to give bands profiles on Facebook and introduced pages, which allow bands to have music players, tour calendars, photos, videos, etc. Even with these new options, bands couldn’t customize their profiles the way they could with MySpace, or organize their content exactly the way they wanted it. Facebook became a useful addition to a band’s online presence, but was not the necessity MySpace was.
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The Verdict

While Facebook is certainly the best place for an artist to advertise and interact with fans, it lacks the appearance of a personal website that MySpace has, and the music player is secondary to the news feed on the page. On MySpace, the music player is the focus of the page, and far more artists have MySpace pages than have complete Facebook pages.

I know of industry folks who will look at a band’s MySpace page before looking at their actual website – (1) to listen to their music, and (2) to see how many friends they have. Yes, the number of MySpace friends you have is still relevant in the industry today. It probably not as accurate as the number of fans you have on your Facebook page, which are much more accessible than your MySpace friends, but it still adds credibility.

I think as more bands begin to adopt Facebook pages and focus on building their fan base through Facebook, the number of fans on a band’s page will carry more weight than the number of “friends” on MySpace. For now, MySpace is still very relevant in the music industry, so I’d recommend having both a strong MySpace and Facebook presence. MySpace for music, Facebook for fan interaction.

Facebook Connect sarà “ovunque” su MySpace

da Insidefacebook

“Yahoo announced that it will be making Facebook Connect a deeply-integrated part of its site earlier this week. The move surprised some people, because Yahoo itself has historically been the largest social site on the web. By relying on third parties like Facebook for key social features, like friend relationships, the company has now more narrowly defined itself as a content publisher.

But we should get ready for another big Facebook Connect integration, industry sources tell us: MySpace is planning to make it a key part of the site, rolling out a number of Connect features in the first part of 2010. In addition to relying on its own “social graph” of user relationships, MySpace will use the graphs from other sites. — Facebook’s social graph is currently the most reflective of people’s real-life relationships, so apparently it will soon be a significant part of MySpace.”

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