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- cherrypeel.com - the democratic music revolution cherrypeel.com
"Every band starts out at the bottom of the charts and if the community likes what they hear, they vote the band up. This works well for lesser known bands as the community votes on the quality of the song, not media hype or name recognition." Looks similar to thesixtyone...
- 5 Lessons in Promoting Events Using Social Media (Back to Basics) — Climb to the Stars climbtothestars.org
Some dead handy tips here.
- Where is Your Username registered usernamecheck.com
Handy.
- Band Metrics - Private Beta bandmetrics.com
Sounds dead handy. In beta. "Band Metrics helps musicians and bands analyze and measure the success of their music."
- It Could Be Worse » Blog Archive » Improving Freecycle timandkathy.co.uk
- Radar Music Videos | connecting filmmakers with music video opportunities radarmusicvideos.com
Radar was set up in 2006 to inspire, empower and connect people worldwide through music video filmmaking.
- How can I get a music video? | New Music Strategies newmusicstrategies.com
I recently stumbled across Radar Music Videos. It’s a site that connects independent video producers with musicians, with some quite spectacular results. For quite realistic budgets, there are some very impressive music promo clips.
- How many social media platforms?!!! | New Music Strategies newmusicstrategies.com
Social media strategy suggestions from Dubber.
- SoundUnwound soundunwound.com
New music site from IMDb and Amazon; pulls data from Musicbrainz, Wikipedia and various other places.
- Nokia To Debut Mobile Lifestreaming App - ReadWriteWeb readwriteweb.com
For users of Nokia phones, though, a new app will soon be revealed that does exactly what we always dreamed a mobile lifestreaming app should: geotag your media and upload it to the web.
- TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » MySpace looks to mobile to take the fight back to Facebook uk.techcrunch.com
According to a recent Nielsen Mobile Advertising Report MySpace Mobile is the leading mobile social networking site in Europe, occupying first or second position in four of the five key markets measured. Visiting social networks on mobile phones is experiencing big growth in Europe.
- People-centric Mobile Computing | About Mobility Weblog weblog.cenriqueortiz.com
An Introduction to the mobile context and mobile social software, which explores the topics of the mobile context and its role on what I referred to as People-centric mobile computing.
- UserVoice » Customer Feedback 2.0 uservoice.com
Customer feedback app, as used on blip.fm.
- Orange RockCorps orangerockcorps.co.uk
You give 4 hours of your time to your community, and you Get Given 1 ticket to a gig featuring the best acts around. You can't buy a ticket. You have to earn this ticket.
According to the company behind the widely used sharing widget ShareThis, after emailing a link, the most popular method of sharing is now Facebook. The numbers are interesting - but there are also some big caveats to keep in mind.
A Twitter client that adds photos and geolocation as well as clickable URLs and Follow / Stop Following control within the app. With it, you can find people twittering near you.
- Brands on Flickr » didn’t see that coming geoffnorthcott.com
- Twitturly - Real-time Link Tracking on Twitter twitturly.com
A service for tracking what URLs people are talking about as they talk about them on Twitter.
- Coworking wiki / CoworkingLondon wiki.coworking.info
...combines leading social commerce technology with a team of dedicated pros who make it easy to turn your customer voice into serious business results.
- Boomkat – Groups at Last.fm last.fm
Boomkat seem to be doing a good job with their Last.fm group.
- Location Technologies Primer techcrunch.com
Being location aware is the single most important feature in a mobile device that otherwise suffers in comparison with desktop and laptop Internet devices
Enables social entrepreneurs, socially-minded people and socially-driven organisations to share, shape and use social insight to generate greater positive impact in the real world.
The Usage Lifecycle describes how far a person has progressed in using your web application, helping to identify the hurdles someone needs to overcome to become regular, passionate users.
- Tweeting for Companies 101 | ::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon horsepigcow.com
"The key to Twitter is the level of listening you do as well as talking. It is definitely supposed to be an interactive program. And, in fact, this is where you build the majority of your Whuffie (aka social capital)." Mixed feelings.
- We heart it / Visual bookmark for everyone weheartit.com
FFFFOUND! alternative.
"Clients complained that their agencies [...] typically treat social channels like blogs as traditional media. In other cases, their ideas are not backed up by practical skills in the area." Glad it's not just me.
- Why Social Ads Don’t Work - Bokardo bokardo.com
"Social ads don’t work as well because people are being social, not searching for something." Context matters.
- Web 3.0: Is It About Personalization? - ReadWriteWeb readwriteweb.com
"The easiest way to sell the Semantic Web vision to consumers is to talk about how it can make their lives easier. When machines understand things in human terms, and can apply that knowledge to your attention data, we'll have a web that knows what we wan
In contrast to their apparent universal appeal, [social networking sites] are effectively ‘locking out’ disabled visitors, the majority of whom can’t even register, let alone participate in the on-line communities they wish to join.
- Tweetmeme tweetmeme.com
Watches what is going on within twitter and picks up anyone posting links to content. [Then tracks]how many other mentions of the same content are made (and how influential they are.)
- Mind hacks: Opinion leaders impotent in ideas economy mindhacks.com
A study that looked at how ideas spread through social networks [found] found that under most circumstances a critical mass of more easily influenced people, not 'opinion leaders', are key to making ideas popular.
- Your Twitter Karma dossy.org
- FriendFeed friendfeed.com
Makes it easy to keep track of the web pages, videos, music, and photos your friends and family interact with around the Internet. The site is currently in a private beta-testing period.
- DataPortability.org - Share and remix data using open standards dataportability.org
"Standardized Data Portability is the next great frontier for the web. As users, our identity, photos, videos and other forms of personal data should be discoverable by, and shared between our chosen tools or vendors." Not sure how I missed this.
The big problem with Facebook is the plain fact that it’s an extremely annoying piece of software. I could go on for paragraphs and paragraphs about all the stupid, nasty, and sometimes scary things Facebook has done
- Social Media Marketing eBook: Blogger Relations, Facebook Marketing, SMO and Word of Mouth on the Web socialmediaready.com
This book will tell you how to market products and services through social media channels like blogs, podcasts and Facebook.
The Group calls itself a "place for anyone to share their experiences, frustrations and successes in driving change inside large organizations." Monthly meetings, the first being this week, will combine guest speakers and open discussion.
- thesixtyone - a music adventure thesixtyone.com
Musicians upload music and listeners decide which songs go on the homepage.
- How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook -- Facebook -- InformationWeek informationweek.com
Cory Doctorow describes how Facebook and other social networks have built-in self-destructs: They make it easy for you to be found by the people you're looking to avoid.
"Campaign microsites may be a staple of the "old model," but they are by most accounts not facing extinction—although their role will probably be diminished from star to player in a cast of channels that also includes MySpace, YouTube and widgets."