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Spotify+Twitter = Close-to-real-time Music Trend?

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

A new service called SpotiChart chart offers daily music trend based on the tweets generated by Spotify. It is a novel idea but their data don’t seem to be relevant (yet). At the time I wrote this post, the most tweeted artist was Iron Maiden (um… ok :/). Has anyone done a study on users [...]

Contents are not free, but competition can sure drive them close to that.

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

High quality, commercial albums available for download for less than $3 each. : http://www.tunespro.com/ Update: Am I reading this right? Apple owns tunespro.

New Social Music Service Handles Copyright Infringement, But Not Really

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Stereo 8 allows users to upload any song. Others can listen, rate and share via facebook. The site removes all songs, copyrighted or not, when the song is played or up to 48 hours. There is no login for listeners, all records of uploads are deleted together with each song. To preemptively answer copyright complaints [...]

Changing Users’ Behavior

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

A former-colleague forwarded this video to me. It is a great example of how designers can change users’ behavior with pleasant surprises and the element of fun.