Is The Tide Finally Turning?

It seems like most of the news about the big music business companies lately has been nothing but doom and gloom.  By and large, it’s been the startups like TuneCore, TopSpin, BandCamp, SoundCloud, last.fm, iLike, Rdio and others that have been pushing the envelope and taking advantage of the new opportunities within the marketplace. However, [...]

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Mobile Payments – Coachella’s Lost Opportunity

Coachella was high-tech this year. The wristbands had RFID chips in them to record attendees comings and goings, the iPhone app had the lineup and a GPS-based friend-finder (that if you were on Verizon, worked… AT&T… not so much). You could pick your bands on Coachooser and shoot them out to your social networks, and [...]

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Communication #fail – Coachella Set Times

We’ve all seen this happen before. You buy tickets to an event, and the artist gets sick (or the venue loses it’s license, or the tour manager quits, or the date is re-scheduled because Venus is in Saturn’s path and their stars aren’t aligned). If this was 1990, you would call the ticketing company or [...]

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Hand Stamps – Still In Style?

I’ve recently started to get more involved with a few music networking/tech groups around the NYC area – namely, NY Music Tech and Noteworking meetups.  This past Monday saw a NY Music Tech event take place at The Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, and I helped work the door for the event. The duties were basic.  [...]

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How To Minimize Facebook Spam

Facebook SPAM.  It’s awfully pervasive for such a closed network! I mean, everyone expected MySpace SPAM – that’s what you get when you add people you don’t know and the social norm is self-promotion. But Facebook? I don’t think that a lot of people saw that one coming!  Nevertheless, it’s there, and it’s annoying.  Here [...]

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