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Facebook begins testing new ‘Share Music’ feature in News Feed Share box
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For a select number of users, Facebook has made it even easier for share the music you have been listening to on Spotify by incorporating a new ‘Share Music’ option in the Share box on its News Feed. With the new ‘Share Music’ option, you don’t have to rely on...
Spotify's 'Play Button' Is Its Attempt To Become The Web's Music Player (FB)
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Spotify has rolled out Play Button, a means to legally embed songs in a web page. With an embed code just like that of a YouTube video, you can put a music player in your blog, Tumblr, or anywhere else on the Internet. People still need to be registered...
American Idol episodes are now Shazam-enabled as the company broadens its scope
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American Idol episodes are now Shazam-enabled, the music recognition startup announced today. The next time you watch the reality TV show, you will be able to use Shazam‘s app to find the song list in real-time. Besides links to buy music from both the competition’s performers and the original artists,...
Apple Files Patent That Lets You Share Music By Tapping iPhones Together (AAPL)
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A patent dug up by Patently Apple introduces the idea of "gifting" songs from one iPhone to another. If a friend of yours likes a song that you currently have on your iPhone, you'd be able to send it to him via a built in Near Field Communication (NFC) chip...
Monstro creates playlists from music shared on Twitter
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Monstro is a new, free music service that captures music shared on Twitter, launching today at the SF MusicTech Summit. Monstro adds a new dimension to discovering music via social media by connecting people, globally, and allowing anyone to share music and listen whenever they like. It searches across multiple...
Facebook adds music sharing feature, total Spotify plays, top videos and more to artists' pages
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Some artists’ Facebook pages now include an option for fans to search for and share Spotify links to their favorite songs, as well as a way for users to see which songs, videos and news stories related to an artist are trending on the social network. When users visit an...
Plex preinstalled on Sony’s upcoming Google TV devices
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Sony hearts Plex: The CE maker will deliver its next generation of Google TV devices, scheduled to be released in the U.S. and beyond this summer, with the Plex app pre-installed to give users simple access to local media and add cloud media sharing to the Google TV platform. A...
MySpace's Music Focus Pays Off
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The social Web space is abuzz with new developments and entrants these days. Facebook's IPO. The explosion of Pinterest. The rapid evolution of Google+ into a place where the president of the United State hangs out. One name you never hear is one that all the rage just a few...
TNW’s Daily Dose – Google and Amazon’s TLD frenzy, ads in Skype, and more
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Google and Amazon lead the tech companies hoping to acquire their own top level domains, Skype introduces ads, and Facebook trials a new way of sharing music. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right here on The Next Web. Make...
Exfm Raises $1.5 M. (and $1) From Previous Investor Spark Capital
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(facebook.com/exfm.music) Exfm, the little Chrome extension that could, just closed a round of funding for precisely $1,500,001 from existing investor Spark Capital, VentureBeat reports. The company filed its Form D with the SEC yesterday. Exfm started in 2010 as a Chrome extension that catalogued addresses of audio files as you...
TNW’s Daily Dose – Nokia layoffs, fights against bad ads and more content on Twitter
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Nokia lays off 10,000 but acquires another company. Internet giants are fighting back against bad ads online. Twitter is now giving more content in your tweets. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right here on The Next Web. Make sure to hit the subscription button of...
10 new ways to discover, share and listen to music online
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“Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed.” - Irene Peter I’m not going to argue with Irene here, music is still music. But, the ways in which we discover, consume and share music online has changed. Big time. In fact, some of the new online music services, tools and apps...
Apple can’t just use Chomp to boost discovery, it needs an App Store community
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Apple needs a social network like it needs a hole in its head. There are plenty of places to share pictures of your food and your plans for the weekend and the biggest tech company in the world doesn’t need to be one of those. But wait, you might say,...
Shazam Adds Support For Android Beam: Tap To Share Music, Tour Dates, Offers & More
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Mobile music discovery service Shazam has just revealed an updated version of its application for Android users which takes advantage of the new technology in Android 4.0 called “Android Beam.” For those unfamiliar, Android Beam is an NFC-based “touch-and-share” feature that allows Android owners share contacts, links, maps, and other...
Spotify update lets you create radio stations from playlists, share to Tumblr, & more
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Streaming music service Spotify is rolling out a new version of its desktop software for Windows and Mac today, adding a handful of new features and improved functionality. Version 0.8.3 of Spotify includes the ability to create custom radio stations based on a particular playlist or album, much in...
Music-loving hackers make the ultimate mashups between big data & sound
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“Big data” is everywhere you look these days. As digital information continues to expand exponentially, this affects everything — how much we pay for health insurance, how we predict the weather, how we play the stock market. The music industry is no exception. Big data is making music a...
Breaking: Facebook Begins Letting Users Share Music
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For the longest time I’ve complained that Facebook should make it possible to share MP3 files on the site, without requiring users to upload the files. By simply providing a player for linked files, they can make the users responsible for any MP3 they link to. This evening I noticed...
The New Twones: Delicious Meets StumbleUpon For Online Music
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Twones started life as a FriendFeed-type service that aggregated various music services into a single stream, which we dubbed a social music feed when we first caught wind of it. Problem was, the startup says, since users generally couldn’t play the music on their site and were constantly being directed...
BaronsMedia.com Acquires Music Site Hypster.com
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L.A.-based BaronsMedia.com, an online advertising network, has acquired Hypster.com, a six-year-old music site. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. PRESS RELEASE: BaronsMedia.com announced on Monday January 30th its acquisition of Hypster.com, a site that enables users to listen to music and offers a generous amount of free tracks and...
Dhingana To Focus On Mobile & Social; To Launch Open Graph Integration
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Online music streaming website, Dhingana, intends to shift focus on mobile, following the launch of a BlackBerry application, which according to the company, clocked close to 100,000 downloads within 40-50 days of launch, and the launch of revamped apps for iPhone, iPad and Android. It is also working on a...
Megaupload user data purge could begin Thursday [updated]
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Third-party companies that stored Megaupload’s data may delete all user files on Thursday. Megaupload customers, even those not guilty of piracy or using the service illegally, have been unable to access their files since the website was shut down on January 19th. So far, seven men have been charged...
Will the Cloud Challenge Apple's Dynasty?
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The news may be about the iPad this weekend but it's the cloud that will hover hot over Apple by the Fall and in many respects challenge its hegemony over how we store and share music and video. According to CNET, that's about the time of year that it looks...
Introducing Spotify Open and Unlimited
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Shared by louisgray Still waiting for US availability... but it's still a high quality product. A few weeks back we released the next generation of Spotify and today we’re excited to offer you even more ways to get the most out of Spotify with the introduction of Spotify Open and...
The Next Web PayPal X Startup Rally: It’s time to choose your winner
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UPDATE: Voting has now closed. Thank you for all your votes! The winner will be announced shortly.So, the 25 finalists in this year’s PayPal X Startup Rally have taken to the stage at The Next Web Conference, pitched their wares and faced a grilling from a panel of expert judges. Now...
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