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Loudcrowd Marries Gaming And Music In A Virtual World
TechCrunch —
... site through a music-related virtual goods model, Loudcrowd charges users for music tracks and extra gaming and avatar features. Prices will range from micropayments for certain features to rare music tracks that could be in the triple digits. We reported on Conduit Lab’s $5.5 million Series A funding round from Charles River Ventures and Prism VentureWorks for Loudcrowd back in 2007 but the plan didn’t seem to include a music community at that point.
While imeem and Last.fm also build social networks around music, Loudcrowd seems to be doing ...
Sirius founder doesn’t think company will do too well in the future in face of Internet-streamed content
CrunchGear —
... It’s basically a problem of services. If you put aside its exclusive content—talk shows like Stern and Opie and Anthony, in-depth sports coverage, etc.—all you’re left with is music. And music is everywhere these days, thanks to the Internet. You’ve got Imeem, ...
How will The Cloud change the way we think about music ownership?
CrunchGear —
... . The conversation touched a number of topics, but the one I found most interesting was the changing notion of music ownership. That is, now that most of us are at least familiar with streaming, on-demand music from pick-your-service (Imeem, ...
Trouble Ahead For Blip.fm?
TechCrunch —
... The biggest change mentioned in the post is the following: the music Blip.fm will be streaming from now on will primarily be coming from Imeem, which means there will be some limitations to what can be streamed henceforth. The other changes are: ...
Your Guide to Music on the Web, Part II
TechCrunch —
... have to choose the most annoying way to achieve that goal?
I remember the hype around Songza when it first launched… it is a slick Ajax-designed service, which makes it easy to stream music on the web. Well, it still does. Songza became popular for its great usability and the fact that you can easily create playlists, and share music with your friends. At first Songza aggregated music from Seeqpod, then switched to YouTube videos and imeem (where imeem = 30 seconds of a song, and Youtube = full video, low quality). Somewhere around ...
iMeem Wipes The Slate Clean With $6 million Funding
TechCrunch —
... . Sequoia Capital and other early investors declined to participate, and so their ownership percentages dropped to miniscule levels. Warner Music also participated in the round, we’ve confirmed, likely by dropping in cash that was immediately returned to them for past debt or future royalty commitments. ...
The New Grooveshark: Faster, Prettier And Still Phenomenal
TechCrunch —
... or Imeem), which in my opinion is a good thing. The overall design and the new navigation bar on the side make for a much smoother user experience, and you can switch themes to make the app fit your mood or resize the menus to fit your screen. ...
Has Tapjoy Solved Monetization Of Free Apps On iPhone And Android?
TechCrunch —
... than 10,000 new installations per day via this method. Finally, Tapjoy may just be the big winner – they’ve created a cash cow of an ad business. In fact, Tapjoy has more demand from the publishers to pay for downloads than they do developers selling in-app virtual goods. Clients such as Playdom and Papaya have taken the most advantage of the virtual goods platform, and Tapjoy is expanding its rapidly expanding its client base: Digital Chocolate , Gogii , imeem and ngmoco are all on board, along with hundreds of smaller publishers. They have ...
Skype Founders Assembling Killer Team For New Online Music Startup
TechCrunch —
... – first hired as Software Engineer at imeem in 2005, Berman served as VP of Technology at the venture-backed social music startup until switching to Rdio back in August 2008. During his tenure at imeem, Berman undoubtedly learned a lot about what it takes to distribute music on the web and scale the service for a large user base. ...
MySpace Close To Acquiring iMeem
TechCrunch —
... MySpace is in late stage negotiations to acquire music streaming service iMeem, we’ve confirmed from multiple sources. MySpace is on a bit of an acquisition spree – ...
