Reports are on the web about Social.fm - the word is that it has closed shop.
I’ve heard of Mercora before, of course, but have not actually used it. It was supposed to be one of those music discovery services. Recently Mercora re-branded as Social.fm, going into the me-too game of trying to be a social [...]
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August 4th, 2008 at 1:22 pm by Ari Shohat
Mercora aka Social.fm has closed
| Business, Marketing, Music, Streaming, Technology, Web | 0 Comments |
June 30th, 2008 at 10:47 am by Ari Shohat
Interview with KurtHanson.com Part 1
| General Rants, Marketing, Music, Streaming, Web | 0 Comments |
Kurt Hanson of RAIN (Radio and Internet Newsletter) was nice enough to interview me recently.
Here’s Part 1 with my thoughts on some of his questions. Parts 2 and 3 coming later.
June 12th, 2008 at 5:11 am by Ari Shohat
Dance Radio Directory
| Marketing, Music, Streaming | 0 Comments |
Here’s a neat list of some popular dance radio stations on the Internet. Call it an experiment of sorts to see if its sticky that way.
I have to say that the look and feel was not unique, I’ve seen it done by someone else like this first.
May 5th, 2008 at 11:45 am by Ari Shohat
The Freemium Model and the Music Industry
| Business, Marketing, Music, Technology | 1 Comment |
The Freemium business model is when you give away roughly 99% of your service away for free, but charge the rest of the folks for upgrades to some Premium features or services.
The free portion of the service can still be monetized, via ads for example, but it’s still free to be used by anyone.
I’ve been [...]
April 17th, 2008 at 10:07 am by Ari Shohat
Domain Acquisition: iClassical.com
| Domaining, Music, Streaming | 1 Comment |
Here’s another domain name I’ve acquired in the last couple of weeks.
It certainly wasn’t the only one, I just can’t talk about many of the nice names as it would leave a digital footprint. Sometimes it’s good to keep services separately, if only for the sake of being paranoid over how Google likes to index interrelated [...]
April 9th, 2008 at 4:13 pm by Ari Shohat
Acceleration of The Music Business Online
| Music, Streaming, Technology, Web | 0 Comments |
On Friday Fred from “A VC” blog had a great post entitled Something Important Is On The Horizon In The Music Business.
Here are a few juicy snippets below. I share most sentiments and continue to believe the music and streaming space will continue to accelerate towards numerous niche services.
Having ceded the file based music opportunity [...]
February 29th, 2008 at 3:50 pm by Ari Shohat
Glimpse Into the Future of Online Music Entertainment
| Music, Streaming, Videos, Web | 1 Comment |
February 1st, 2008 at 2:04 pm by Ari Shohat
Video Friday - DJ David Vendetta with Violinist
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Thanks to DJ Doboy for sending me the link, it’s ahm, interesting.
Don’t ask me why this is held in a clothing store, I guess anything goes during Winter Music Conference in Miami.
And here’s our quick instant messenger conversation concerning this:
Doboy: I saw something similar to this years ago at a club, but it was a jazz band [...]
