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Shazam’s top ten predictions for this summer are mostly based on the number of tags each song has generated so far. As a matter of fact, Gotye’s ‘Somebody That I Used to Know‘ is currently...
Unlike traditional charts and listings, GoRankem attempts to highlight the "best" songs instead of the most popular by encouraging fans to rank their favorites. The site then...
Another trend is "music discovery" -- letting you follow the musical tastes of your friends and listen to people's public playlists. This idea of crowdsourcing your listening...
Powered by crowdsourced data from their user community, Pulselocker’s socially driven music discovery engine delivers more tailored recommendations that better suit DJs’ needs. Users can vote, rate...
Frenzapp music also provides various ways to discover new music. The app takes a look at all the songs that social connections have marked as favorites. Tap a button within the app, and you’ll...
The new Discovery Tool (3.0) will feature a number of new elements that will greatly enhance user experience and functionality making it easier then ever to find, share and license the perfect...
GoRankem is crowdsourcing the music discovery process. By aggregating the expertise of the existing fanbase for every artist, the prospective fans can more easily embrace a new artist or dive...
YouBloom is an indie, online and live, original music songwriting and performance contest with an emphasis on artist discovery and development. YouBloom's vision is to build a community...
“What’s probably most interesting is that back-catalogue songs are represented just as much, if not more, than chart material,” says Kieron Donoghue, founder of ShareMyPlaylists.com. “This shows...
There’s a lot happening in the French crowdfunding industry. Recent announcements have included KissKissBankBank partnering with the French Post as their official fundraising and artist discovery platform and Ulule who have just launched a new feature, a presale option supporting products coming to market once they have raised the required level of capital. I was really keen to understand more about how the crowdfunding industry is developing in general, and in particularly, how it’s doing in France. I got in touch with ten founders of crowdfunding platforms to learn what I could. In all, I spoke to: Smiti Arbia from carnetdemode.com, Nicolas Bailly de touscoprod, Alexandre Boucherot d’Ulule, Hortense Garand from babeldoor.com, Michael Goldman from MyMajorCompany, Nicolas Guillaume from Friendsclear, Angel Ramos de revenonsalamusique.com, Vincent Ricordeau from KissKissBankBank, and Yannick Robert from Mywittygames.com. In a series of three articles, I am going to look at different aspects of the topic. In this first part of a three article series, I look at what makes France different?
My count reached twenty-nine crowdfunding platforms currently operating in the French market, and there are probably more I’m unaware of. This is not to say the country is experiencing an extraordinary phenomena: crowdfunding is booming in Europe and across the world. Who hasn’t heard of Kickstarter’s success? Kickstarter can proud of having reached the dizzy heights of now raising in the order of a US$1m a week, all in less than 2 years in business, for new business ventures and special cause projects. One of their projects, the tiktok lunatik iPod Nano watch holder raising close to $1m alone. In Europe, France among other countries has not yet reached the point of such growth. Why is that?
Users can open the Urbandig app and browse through place collections for SF, NY, LA and Vancouver, sifting for tours through categories like City Gems, Drink, Film, Food and Music, or by curator...
Bloom, currently in beta testing, has already attracted projects from all over the world. The platform launched with a number of exciting projects seeking funding including an educational...
The idea behind the site may sound a little like We Are Hunted, a service that has been tracking popular songs on P2P services and social networks for quite some time. Bajraktari, however, thinks...
In launching YouTube Indonesia, the company signed up a number of local content companies, including Kompas TV, Kompas Cybermedia, Viva Media Group, MyTrans.com, and local music labels Aquarius...
Jammio.com (Beta): An online collaboration tool for musicians to both market their services and securely request the services of other like-minded artists. Jammio.com is designed for freedom of...
Researchers at the Rare Genomics Institute, a nonprofit founded in 2011 dedicated to helping patients with unique genetic diseases, on Tuesday reported that a genome sequencing test performed on...
Fresh from launching its redesigned Web service two days ago, SoundCloud has overhauled its iOS and Android apps, as promised, to bring its presence on mobile in line with the changes. Their new...
The startup was founded in early 2011 by Tom Leathes, Harry Jones and Alex Buttle.Top10 basically enables people to create and share recommendations (evidently, in the form of Top 10 lists) about...
Currently, the internet can perfectly satisfy a user’s urge for a particular theme, provide content based in that theme immediately, and allow users to find, to an unlimited degree of specificity, what they’re looking for. But something’s missing.
YouTube Slam—a video discovery experiment we cooked up with folks from Google Research. Each week a new crop of videos battles head-to-head in Comedy, Cute, Music, Bizarre and Dance Slams, where...
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