The next instalment of the OpenMusicMedia Meet is taking place this Wednesday (30th July) and we have special guest Pim Betist (Sellaband.com) joining us for a conversation about Kevin Kelly’s ‘1000 True Fans’ hypothesis.
To read more about it hop over to the OpenMusicMedia blog
And those wanting to come down should RSVP here.
via Rob Lord.
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No, this is not a post about last night’s Wimbledon final (although there was some awesome topspin on display), it’s a new music startup coming out of stealth mode - Topspin Media.
I haven’t seen their service in action yet but Topspin is described over at Billboard as a “turnkey suite of technologies and services that provides all the content management and customer relationship tools artists need to distribute and market music directly to fans.” At this point I would usually reach for the snooze button, I’ve seen too many uninspiring offerings billed exactly as this. But this particular venture is well funded and has Ian Rogers as its CEO (if you’re not familar, Ian Rogers is the ex-Yahoo Music GM and was a bit of a hero for me because of this blog post.)
I still a remain a little sceptical but if anyone can make a real success in this crowded space then I think it could be Topspin. I think their best shot is to build out a very open platform upon which others could piggy-back to build out their own specific services. I’m sure that Topspin has the vision to do this and they’re definitely billing themselves as a technical company and not a marketing company. Hopefully they will pick the right battles and develop an innovative and valuable service. Watch this space.
I still haven’t got round to thinking about a redesign for this blog but I have been making a few little tweaks here and there adding some fun new tools, plugins and widgets. Here is a quick run down of a few of them.
1) SoundCloud DropBox - a couple of posts ago I told you all about an excellent service called SoundCloud. Well I’ve finally got round to setting up my DropBox. You’ll see it at the bottom of the right hand column. If you want to send me any music, please use this. No more yousendit or random FTP drops pls.
2) Disqus - I don’t actually get that many comments here yet. I really should start publicising the site a bit more. But I’m still a sucker for a fantastic new plugin and Disqus is just that. Disqus adds a community dimension to the comments on this blog and hopefully makes it easier for you to post.
3) Zemanta - I’ve been using Zemanta on this site for a while now and I’m wondering how I ever lived without it. Zemanta is actually a Firefox plugin(!) that suggests contextually relevant links, pictures, related content and tags using their own semantic analysis engine. It runs extremely smoothly, saves me time and really adds to each post.
4) Twitter Tools - this is a nice little plugin for Wordpress that posts to my Twitter stream everytime I make a post with the link and subject. It can also automatically create blog posts with a weekly or daily digest of my tweets. I turned this feature off however as it didn’t really suit my needs. I prefer just displaying my tweets as an RSS feed in the sidebar.
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