Category: Music

• How Songkick is doing a “Detour”

  I’m a big fan of Songkick, a London-based company that enables users to track live shows of their favourite artists. Songkick was founded in 2007 by three friends who felt that finding out when your favourite artist was coming to town could be made a lot easier. Songkick enables users to track their favourite artists […]

  marcabraham

  November 7, 2012

  Music, Online Trends, Startups

  Music, socialmedia, startup

• Understanding more about Amazon Cloud Player and storing music in the cloud

  Last week saw the UK launch of Amazon’s Cloud Player, a service enabling Amazon users to play their music stored in the cloud (through Amazon’s Cloud Drive) from any computer or Android device connected to the Internet. The service was launched in the US back in July, and now Amazon’s UK customers will be able […]

  marcabraham

  September 28, 2012

  Amazon, Cloud, Digital Content, Digital Publishing, Music, Online Trends

  Amazon, Cloud, Music, streaming

• WillCall – Pushing event info to you

  Impressed as I was by the success of online ticket seller Eventbrite, a recent announcement by WillCall then triggered my interest. WillCall is a San Francisco based-startup which started off by sending users in the San Francisco area a push notification about discounted tickets or VIP packages a few hours before a concert was due to start. […]

  marcabraham

  August 3, 2012

  Music, Startups

  events, Music, startup

• Why I really like This Is My Jam

  I love This Is My Jam. Period. This service, which only came out of private beta a few months ago, is as simple as it is effective.  This Is My Jam (‘TIMJ’) lets users select one track at the time (your “jam”) which will expire after one week. As a result, you tend to get recent […]

  marcabraham

  July 12, 2012

  Music, Online Trends, Social Media, Startups

  Facebook, Music, Rdio, socialmedia, startup

• Rdio vs. Spotify: when it comes to user experience, the first round is for Rdio

  Last year I wrote about Rdio, about its affiliate programme and data partnerships respectively. At the time, Rdio was only available in the US and my interaction with its streaming service was therefore limited. I had heard, however, that its user experience design (‘UX’) was great. I have now had a chance to try Rdio […]

  marcabraham

  June 10, 2012

  Digital Content, Music, User Experience

  Music, Rdio, Spotify, streaming, UX