While social music sites are taking off and the search for a new and relevant business model for the music industry is on, Torian Wireless is reaching millions of users the old-fashioned way: radio.
Torian Wireless recently re-launched MiRoamer, an online portal where users can select from thousands of internet radio stations, and customize them from [...]
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The next-generation iPhone will launch soon, and development for it will only heat up, partially thanks to the $100 million iFund raised by Kleiner Perkins.
It comes as no surprise then, when a start-up that has little more than an application for jail-broken iPhones raises capital.
TuneWiki, an Israeli-based startup which launched in December 2007 by [...]
While perusing the internet recently, I stumbled upon a cool new site called Plurk. The site, launched January 23 by user interface specialist Alvin Woon, looks a tiny bit familiar. That’s because it combines features from micro-blogging service Twitter, with a touch of Friendfeed, the social conversation aggregator, and privacy features that closely mirror Facebook [...]
A few months ago, VentureBeat editor Matt Marshall highlighted the various players in the gesture recognition technology space, speculating that “one day, very soon, you’ll be able to control an avatar or character on a screen with a mere gesture of your hands or body.”That day is here, says Prime Sense CEO Inon Beracha. The [...]
I ran across a pretty cool company last week at the 3 Rivers Venture Fair in Pittsburgh. It’s still in pre-launch, but I think it’s well worth taking a look at. The company’s called Sim Ops Studios, and its newest creation, Wildpockets, is a product that lets users convert 2D photos into embeddable 3D applications [...]
Jhankarbeats, a social music platform for South Asian music, wants to break away from the pack of all-encompassing social music networks and focus on delivering a platform for artist discovery to the South Asian music scene.
Many social sites in the web 2.0 age try to be all things to all people, a la MySpace and Facebook, [...]
SightSpeed, a desktop-based video conferencing application, tomorrow launches SightSpeed Light (see screenshot below), a widget video conferencing app, on the Myspace application platform.
SightSpeed Light provides a Flash-based free video chat and video mail between MySpace users, but it is also integrated with SightSpeed on the desktop. The company has plans to relase the widget on [...]
UStream.TV, a live video-streaming application, has raised $11.1 million in a first round of funding from venture capital firm DCM, as well as previous investors Labrador Ventures and The Band of Angels. Since its launch in March of last year, the broadcasting platform says it has had more than 260,000 broadcasters, 2 million viewer [...]
Social video startup Unknown Vector launched a browser-based version of its uvLayer application yesterday.
I covered the company back in February following the release of its uvLayer desktop-only app (built on Adobe AIR), and I was pretty impressed with it then. The application lets users create “stacks” of videos collected from YouTube and Truveo via simple drag and drop.
You can also build [...]
Covestor, an investing community site, has raised $6.5 million in its first round of venture funding. The London and New York-based company plans to build out its asset management platform, which helps its users make investment decisions.
Covestor targets both average investors and professional fund managers. The site mines information from real portfolios on online stock [...]
Facebook, one of the world’s largest social networking sites, is testing out a feature called “People You May Know,” that shows you the public profiles of people it figures you want to be Facebook friends with.
This seems like a smart feature to add. Every Facebook user has friends who they didn’t know were on [...]
Flixwagon, a mobile live video casting platform, has just launched a “Flixee” widget that lets users stream video from a mobile phone to a blog, website, or social networking site.
Additionally, Flixwagon users can deliver their mobile-to-web broadcasts directly to YouTube through their Flixwagon account, thanks to YouTube’s recently opened API. The widget and YouTube uploading [...]
Wikia today announced a partnership with collaborative video site Kaltura that will allow the more than a million users of its MediaWiki software to post and collaborate using Kaltura content.
Kaltura, the self-proclaimed “YouTube meets the Wiki” (previous coverage here and here ), has a video extension that lets its users start a collaborative video project by uploading video clips, [...]
Germany-based ad network Adconion Media Group is moving quickly to spend the $80 million it raised a few weeks ago.The company just announced that it has acquired Frontline Direct, a data management and direct marketing company, for $20 million.Adconion, which we reported Fox Interactive was interested in, is using the acquisition to expand into North [...]
Wannabe guitar players seem to have become a promising market lately.
Last year, popular console music games Guitar Hero and Rockband outsold digital music sales by over $100 million, according to sources cited by game-review site Primotech.
Now, Atlanta startup iVideosongs is trying to tap into the market with its guitar instructional video site, which launched [...]
Companies still releasing music and movies locked with digital rights management technology may have one more software application to worry about.
DoubleTwist, Norwegian programmer Jon Lech Johansen’s (aka DVD Jon, pictured here) latest startup, yesterday launched a beta application that lets users “liberate” their media, be it music or video.
DoubleTwist’ free desktop application lets users [...]
Overlay.tv today launched a video-commerce platform that may give marketers a new way to monetize on online video.
Even online video mammoth Google/YouTube hasn’t successfully implemented a way to extract revenue from its billions of user generated videos. A number of sites have taken to inserting “pre-roll” ads into the videos they offer — ads that [...]
Video is getting a lot more social — and a new startup is trying to make it even easier to discover and share videos. The company’s called Unknown Vector, and it launched its social video desktop application, uvLayer, just a couple of weeks ago.
Users download the uvLayer desktop application (for Mac OSX or Windows XP and [...]
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There are five arms to the music industry: The record label, publisher (sometimes combined), managers, artists, and fans. While we’ve previously examined labels, and surveyed numerous sites that help fans in their attempt to get music, companies that focus on getting profits to artists (who struggle to manage copyrights and track down royalties globally) are a bit [...]
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