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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 [...]

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 [...]

Lots of Data on Social Networking. Ignore the Cheesey Title.

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

Provocative, and I wish they cite where their got their data inside the video. It cites socialnomics at the end, which means that I may have to buy the book to find out the sources of their data.