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SoundUnwound ties music to social networks

Amazon is hoping to add a Social Networking dimension to their IMDb subsidiary via SoundUnwound. But could it be that Amazon is playing to the wrong crowd?
Music combined with Social Networking is a wonder to behold. Just look at the success of Last.fm. But music on the web can also be a litigious affair and [...]

My iTunes widget a one-hit-wonder?

All this talk of Apple’s new My iTunes being about ’social music’ is a little belated and more than a little like not enough. I’d say the interactive social music high ground was seized by Last.fm and Musicovery yonks ago…
OK, so Last.fm didn’t buy anyone ‘coz they were much too busy being bought out themselves [...]

Last.fm should buy Shazam, Musicovery

I’ve been using Last.fm for yonks, and it’s a place I don’t frequent as often as I used to. The music discovery process is intuitive, and encourages a love-thy-neighbour kind of attitude, as those with similar tastes are nudged into your profile page. So rather than have you go hunt down people of similar musical [...]

Wayne’s weekly wrap-up: in the Pipes

I had this idea, which all sort of came about when I was trying to make sense of an idea by Lisa, over at Techslut, which incidentally still doesn’t make any sense to me. But it’s late, so who knows. However, my idea does make sense to me, which I imagine comes as some relief. [...]

Wayne’s weekly wrap-up: where to find me…

By way of some self-indulgent, self-promotional content-free posting this Sunday, here’s a list of all of the places you can expect to find me skulking & lurking on that interweb thing I keep hearing a lot about.

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