By Ryan Van Etten on 07/02/2010
Last month I wrote about five tactics for finding music blogs. Let’s revisit this addiction with three more massive resources and a hit of punk rock. 1. MOG Music Network is a network of music blogs integrated with the social music community MOG. An estimated 800+ external music blogs are now part of MMN—including ours—so MOG it up.
Posted in Music, Music Flux, News, Reviews | Tagged album review, Alkaline Trio, blog aggregators, captaincrawl, Chicago, Matt Allison, Matt Skiba, MOG, MOG Music Network, music blog search, music review, punk, resources, rock/pop, search, This Addiction, video |
By Ryan Van Etten on 06/01/2010
Is water polo related to digital music? Flickr thinks so. It also can’t tell the difference between a house and a person. Can anyone make sense of this and/or provide insight into Flickr’s search algorithm? I’m using the Recent tab, because I’m often most interested in more recent photos. The Recent search results should still be relevant. I’m a huge Flickr fan, but this isn’t the first time the search has me asking what the Flickr? Anyone else?
Posted in Design, Discussion | Tagged fail, flickr, image search, realtime search, search, search relevance, tagging, Yahoo |
By Ryan Van Etten on 02/18/2010
Bandcamp added artist/song tagging to its slew of features yesterday, and hopes are high that more social music features are in store. As a self-professed tag-a-holic I’m pretty stoked about the news, and especially so because I had emailed them suggesting a tagging feature. Bandcamp artists can now list themselves in up to five genres, they can add their location, and they can add specific traits to individual tracks in the form of tags.
Posted in Design, Discussion, Editorial, Music Flux, News, Reviews | Tagged Amie Street, bandcamp, behavior, community, crowdsourcing, data, Delicious, design review, geotagging, ideas, last.fm, location, music discovery, music intelligence, new features, recommendation engine, search, social bookmarking, social media, social music, tagging, thesixtyone |
By Ryan Van Etten on 11/13/2009
If you often use Google to lookup artists then you’ve no doubt already seen the new Google Music Search that includes playable audio right in the search results. The streaming audio is served via iLike or Lala. Links to other streaming music sites are shown as well—namely Rhapsody, Pandora, Imeem, and Lala.
Posted in Discussion, Music, Music Flux | Tagged crowdsourcing, data, Google, iLike, Imeem, information, integration, iTunes, Lala, media, music industry, MusicBiz, MySpace, OneBox, pandora, Rhapsody, search, social music, streaming, The Cardigans, trends, Wikipedia, YouTube |
By Ryan Van Etten on 09/18/2009
Fans want to connect with musicians. Musicians want to connect with fans. Fans want to connect with fans. How are they all connecting in 2009? Social platforms such as Twitter, Ustream, and Facebook allow artists to communicate and interact directly with their fans. Direct communication bridges the abyss dug by decades of record label domination.
Posted in Editorial, Music, Music Flux | Tagged band, bands, communication, direct-to-fan, entertainment, fans, geotagging, interaction, localized, MusicBiz, musicians, on tour, search, social media, tips, Twitter |
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