MicControl.com will begin a week long interview series entitled ‘Branded Music’. This 5-part series will spotlight some of the new music industry’s most influential thought-leaders, dissecting the success of their own brands in order to share some powerful insights with the emerging music community.
Last week Apple released its latest iTunes update to 10.0 – along with a brand new social network entirely for music. The network, called Ping, is the latest of web 2.0 social networks to hit the world wide web.
Every industry from retail to manufacturing has turned to web-based platforms and B2B marketplaces to find a better way to get things done. A start-up, DigiMusicBids.com, is aimed to bring that power to the music business.”
Last month, Midge Ure released his musician-based community project to the internet. Tunited.com, a haven for independent musicians looking to get their music out to new audiences, is a new website filled with great music in the spirit of Purevolume’s music sharing.
The social micropayment platform (that’s what Flattr is) has finally opened to the public this month, so now you don’t need an invite to give support to the sites you visit (like this one) with real money or to add the Flattr button to your own blog.
This week SoundCloud introduced a deeper integration with Creative Commons, making the existing pool of the service’s thousands of CC samples, loops and music tracks more easy to find, remix and re-use.
