February 2010
33 posts
Well.. that’s really inspiring…
jakelodwick:
sangennaro:
With the internet footprint on society only getting bigger and bigger, where do you see the music industry in 15 years?
I think the music industry will actually be safely nestled inside of other corporations, less its own sector of the economy and more a kind of PR expense. Young, attractive recent college graduates with...
Hybrowse: 8tracks →
This is excellent!
gordonc:
So, Jake made this sweet tag based browsing interface which is basically how I always wanted to browse 8tracks and, come to think of it, a lot of the internet. Keep it up, you’ll hit 1000 in no time!
8tracks:
8tracks is now available in delicious fluid layout Hybrowse form. Check it out!
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Music Shrink shares good indie musician advice →
Authored by Jim Powers, founder of Minty Fresh Records, the blog offers some well-written and simple advice. Luckily, Jim isn’t trying to sell us something like consulting hours or a crappy startup, so this is light on rhetoric. Worth reading.
Also see New Music Strategies, as that has some handy discussion from Andrew Dubber.
Colorillo - Draw together in realtime →
We are practically living in the future.
Chatroulette is the shit →
This is the freshest thing I’ve seen in months! Oh Internet, oh Russia.
Check it out: http://chatroulette.com
A Silver Mount Zion posted a mixtape
on their site and aptly prefaced it with:
“i know, with a terrible certainty, that one day my son will turn to me and ask, “why are they called mix-tapes? huh what’s a tape? why isn’t it called a ‘mix-file’?”, and like a melancholy robot, overcome with nostalgia for the lost tactility of certain dead technologies, and keenly aware that me too i’m a dead technology, i’ll put my dumb arms...
hundreds of Facebook users are apparently really... →
zoya:
quick summary of the RRW link, if you’ve already reached your ?!?!?! quota for the day
THE COMMENTS! AHAHAHAHA THE COMMENTS! →
zoya:
laughing through my tears:
Dear visitors from Google. This site is not Facebook. This is a website called ReadWriteWeb that reports on news about Facebook and other Internet services. To access Facebook right now, click here. For future reference, type “facebook.com” into your browser address bar or enter “facebook” into Google and click on the first result. We recommend that you then save...
Hype Machine Show/CD Swap at Housing Works in NYC →
Come join us and swap some CDs! (via hypem)
Watch“Whoa A Talking fish?” Russian cartoon based on an Armenian tale.
This is perfect, in retrospect, can’t believe I grew up watching stuff like this. (via Arkadiy)
Facebook open-sources "compiled" PHP →
This is really excellent, so cool FB is open-sourcing so many of their platform tools. The memcached improvements are wild as well.
