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User-Generated Content, Time-Saving Tools, and Dance Music Djs: Slide Decks From The STC Summit

Wednesday, June 04, 2008

As a convenience to our readers—and to those who attended the Society for Technical Communication Summit in Philadelphia this week—I’ve published the slide decks for three of my presentations here. If you have questions about any of the presentations, send me an email. ...

Filed under: About The Content Wrangler : Content Management : Music : User-Generated Content

Apple and Starbucks Make Mobile Music Shopping Deal

Monday, September 24, 2007

Sip. Buy. Repeat. That’s the mantra coming from Apple, whose latest deal with gourmet coffee giant Starbucks, involves moving the purchasing process of musical content to the grande, non-fat, no-whip, mocha point-of-sale.

Here’s the idea: Say you’re standing in line ...

Filed under: iPhone : Mobile Content : Music

[Web 2.0] SeeqPod Introduces “Playable Search”

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Ever wish you could search the web for a special song or video and actually find and listen to/view it within seconds? Thanks to the folks at SeeqPod, now you can. The team at SeeqPod is passionate about technology as well as music. So they decided to apply some pretty ...

Filed under: Music : Web 2.0 : Examples

Let The Music Play: Saving Internet Radio

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

If you’re a music lover, you may already be one of millions of subscribers who listen to internet radio services like Pandora or LastFM. But a recent ruling by the Copyright Royalty Board may put an end to the popular web radio services. The ruling increases ...

Filed under: Internet : Music

Pandora’s Jam Box: Internet Radio That Learns From You

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

How do you get millions of people to voluntarily tell you what they like and dislike and to help you categorize an entire library of content. Offer them something they want. That’s exactly what internet radio pioneer Pandora is doing, to the delight of listeners. ...

Filed under: Content Management : Music : Metadata : Music : Web 2.0 : Examples