Notes on six years of music and tech / OMM #13 Photo: David Emery Last Friday the final OpenMusicMedia took place in London. Six years ago, Dave Haynes and Jonas Woost decided to get a bunch of folks together in a pub for regular discussions on the future of music, media, and technology — Anthony…

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New article on @Medium: The Two Ways of Building. (I see micro better but have such respect for the power of macro) https://t.co/UmdSPDfKtU

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The Waterloo Bridge, with St. Paul's in the background. Andrew Testa for The New York Times IF you’ve saved this article for your long-planned trip to London , and you’re now reading it for the third time, circling Heathrow, well, I’m sorry. You’re probably still up there because the queue at…

Serial host Sarah Koenig, Ira Glass, and Executive Producer Julie Snyder. Meredith Heuer Today, after nearly three months, Serial reaches its dramatic conclusion. And whether Sarah Koenig and company bring us closure or just leave us in the lurch Sopranos -style, one storyline is sure to be…

According to the Wall Street Journal, SoundCloud “is in discussions to raise about $150 million in new financing at a valuation that is expected to top $1.2 billion.” Soundcloud may achieve this because of its huge number of current users, now estimated to be 175 million throughout the world. But…

By Jon Watte, VP Technology @ IMVU IMVU has built a rich, graph-shaped REST (REpresentational State Transfer) API (Application Programming Interface) to our data. This data includes a full social network, as well as e-commerce, virtual currencies, and the biggest 3D user generated content catalog in…

I’ve not talked about Serial on purpose because I don’t believe its the only reason we should be paying attention to podcasts nor the only model for success. I will say I’m obsessed with the show and the team behind it has broken new ground. Serial demonstrates that with fantastic content and highly…

Another busy year in South Africa has come and gone - and many interesting new developments have seen the media business itself thrust into centre-stage as live courtroom and boardroom drama made the headlines... Pop-up channels, the destructive erosion of SABC effectiveness and credibility and the…

This is a recent article from Music Ally’s Sandbox digital marketing report, which is part of our subscription service. Sign up for a free trial here . One link to serve them all: that is Linkfire’s aim – to reach all fans, no matter their music consumption preferences, in one fell swoop. The link…

Editor’s note: Understanding how to divide founder equity at a startup can be tricky, even to the point of reaching emotional riffs between founders. Below, Lee Hower offers advice for approaching these equity discussions objectively and properly. In addition to being a co-founder of NextView…

As a number of sites reported Sunday night, Vox Media has closed a new round of financing worth $46.5 million, which gives the company a theoretical value of close to $400 million, or almost twice what Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos paid for the Washington Post . Vox’s round comes not long after a…

We spent some time talking about our tech stack to underdogjobs – take a peek under the hood of the time machine! Inside Timehop’s Tech Stack This is the latest in our “Inside the Stack” series featuring Underdog.io customers. This week, we hear from Benny Wong , Co-Founder & CTO of Timehop . Benny…

Downloads, listens, listeners, and about those podcast numbers The first season of Serial is nearly over. I’m sure we’ll get to read more pieces discussing how many people have been listening to it, and some general hypothesizing about what those numbers mean for the future of podcasting. This post…

How Cryptocurrency Can Revolutionize The Music Industry

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It took a long time to get going, but streaming music is finally mainstream. It’s a business, too, generating more than $1 billion a year . That sounds like good news for the music labels, which have been waiting for digital music sales to replace the ones that disappeared after CD sales peaked 14…

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Meeting two worlds: iono.fm is your personal radio station on-demand By on 18 December, 2014 In today’s Uber-inspired world, everything seems to be on-demand. So why shouldn’t your radio be? After turning down three potential acquisitions, South African PVR-for-radio startup Iono.fm finds itself in…

Taking back the music A story about jazz and coffee and language I’ve been spending a lot of time around old jazz records. I’m still a newbie, mind you. On the “likelihood to ruin your dinner party by talking about jazz all night” scale I’m probably only a 3 or a 4. But there’s one thing about these…

Amazon won the book war. In a series of rare interviews, the company tells us what's next Chris Green holds an envelope. At least, it looks like an envelope. In reality, it's a piece of office copy paper that's been cut and folded into the shape of a Kindle Voyage , the latest in Amazon's…

Sarah Koenig, the reporter who brought "Serial" to life, recording an episode at a studio for "This American Life" in New York. Elise Bergerson On Thursday, people will gather around tables everywhere and, well, talk about how bummed they are that “ Serial ,” the wildly popular podcast, is taking…

.@jeffjarvis is publishing his new book about the future of news, GEEKS BEARING GIFTS, on @medium. Start here: https://t.co/qQpu9SBTFo

The Geography of Uber by Kevin Lincoln (Photo: jasonnewport/Flickr) Can Uber fail? Any corporation can fail. Companies with valuations far greater than Uber’s $18.2 billion have blinked out of existence . But more likely at this point is that, at least in terms of transportation infrastructure,…

Image Credit: Paul Sawers/Venturebeat Shuffler.fm has been building out its curated music-discovery platform since its launch back in 2011. At the heart of the service is a Web and iOS application that taps the tastes of online music magazines, blogs, and other opinion-shapers to deliver a curated…

David Lowery, whose band Cracker scored a hit in 1993 with "Low," is one of the loudest and most eloquent critics of the new streaming music economy. His blog post, "My Song Got Played On Pandora 1 Million Times and All I Got Was $16.89," became the definitive example of unfair artist compensation…

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Introducing Charted A new way to share data A year ago, the Product Science team at Medium created the first version of Charted , an internal tool to help us easily share charts. It has since become indispensable to the way we analyze data and communicate our findings with the team. Now we’re…