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What’s in a name…
A couple of years ago, she came with a tape to me and asked if she could play at the CyberTheatre – where I worked then (now offline). I listened and heard some of the most exciting music I had heard in years (it was Drum n’ Bass she introduced at that [...]

Collaborative music filtering started with Audioscrobbler which is nicely integrated into the last.fm online radio service.
Now iTunes also has its playlist filtering through Mobster. The result can be seen on MusicMobs.

Here’s what I listen to; still an general overview of most played songs but adding more features and possibilities will make it all more exciting [...]

BBC News reports that Andy Cato of dance act Groove Armada has teamed up with O2 in the UK to offer tracks for download to mobiles.
Some article quotes:
“As a solo artist, he is free to make his own music deals, although Groove Armada will continue to make records and tour together.”…”It means he will get [...]

The move was met with relief by most companies in the technology industry, many of which had feared that the Parliament might adopt a regime that was either too restrictive on patents, or so generous that it would curb the ability of smaller companies to innovate.
Source: FT.com

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I have been curious about the iTunes affiliates program and decided to try it out last week. Becoming an affiliates is rather easy to set up, the program is run through Linkshare. You get a set of tools to link up to records available in the iTunes Music Store. Just a pity that most of [...]