Songkick Makes Sure You Never Miss Another Concert
Songkick is a service that makes it easy to track live shows from your favorite bands and artists. You can search for upcoming shows in your area and buy tickets. Songkick also has a social component that lets you connect with other users, artists, and venues. Their database of over 1 million future and past [...]
Read MoreYouTube Goes Hollywood
Last weekend, YouTube made its first tentative steps into the movie rental business. Entertainment-starved YouTubers tired of the standard funny or shocking viral videos can get a bit of culture. In a partnership with the Sundance Film Festival, users can rent movies from the 2009 and 2010 edition of the festival. The movies included in the beta run include:
Read MoreApple Buys Lala to Get A Piece of the Cloud
Apple has acquired music streaming service Lala and we are left wondering what, exactly, they’re planning to do with it. We just recently covered iLike and Lala being behind some major music initiatives involving Google and Facebook. Lala had partnered with Google to help power their Music Onebox service and were also working with Facebook to allow us to purchase musical gifts for our friends.
Read MoreLost in the Cloud: A Eulogy for My Lost Data
I’m not going to knock cloud computing completely because it’s allowing for collaborative efforts that were previously unheard of. And with Google beefing up its cloud computing to take on Microsoft, it’s obvious that its not going anywhere anytime soon. At this stage in the game, especially for mobile phone service providers, it might be a good idea to create an app that will do all the data restoration, similar to how iPhone users can back up their info on iTunes. Until then, if I were you, I’d be backing up all my precious contacts the old-fashioned way with a pad and a pen.
Read MoreTuberadio, iTunes meets Youtube meets Spotify
Tuberadio is a music player for the web that uses YouTube as it’s library. This means you have access to millions of songs and videos from one simple interface. This is just the beginning of what Tuberadio can do, though. With the ability to save and share playlists and pretty much locate any song you want for free, it’s an awesome tool for people tied to their computers all day.
Read MoredoubleTwist Brings You Choice Powered by Amazon
Not only is doubleTwist trying their hardest to go against the grain and defy multimedia giant Apple, but they’re also looking to provide a service that many people will find useful. iTunes pretty much owns the market for buying music and other media online, but doubleTwist will soon be providing a competing application with most [...]
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