Monday, October 7th | Twitter Unveils IPO
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Monday, October 7th
Twitter Unveils IPO, Twitter #Music Flops
Last week, Twitter's unveiled its $1 billion IPO. While many hoped that Twitter #Music would help shape music discovery as much as Twitter has shaped social media... the rather impressive IPO comes in spite of, rather than because of, its foray into music recommendation. After just a few months, the pretty app has fallen far down the charts. But the failure in #Music may help Twitter when it comes to tackling #TV. Meanwhile, Google's Play Music All Access (yes, we still cannot believe that's its real name) is releasing an iOS app, jumping in to compete with iTunes Radio. Of course, Google already owns arguably the biggest music discovery platform in the world, Youtube. Why did they choose not to build their music streaming service directly out of that beast? Keep up on all of this, plus more music tech news, below.
Recap: Funkmaster Flex at the SF Music Tech Summit via SoundCtrl
Aleph: Monome’s Adaptable Soundcomputer
via SoundCtrl
Interactive Digital Sheet Music App Tonara Updates Design & Free Zone Music Downloads via SoundCtrl
JamCam App Lets You Use Songs In Your Mobile Videos
via TechCrunch
File Under #Finally: Twitter Unveils $1 Billion IPO, Showing Growing Revenue but No Profits
via AllThingsD
What #Music’s Failures Teach Us About Twitter’s #TV Future via TechCrunch
Music Is Changing via Medium
Songza Partners With Foursquare for Playlist, Rewards (Q&A) via Billboard
Google will launch a native Google Music iOS app later this month via Engadget
Interactive Music – Richer via Music Machinery
Rabbl Helps Fans Get Bands to Their City via Rabbl
Pandora's metrics miss biggest plot point, and it's not Apple via CNET
How Spotify Engineered the New Music Economy via Mashable