By Ryan Van Etten on 02/23/2012
Over the past year (and longer) Luke Wroblewski (@lukew) has been tracking mobile usage and posting lots and lots of statistics. The overall trend is undeniable: mobile is exploding. If you need convincing, scroll on down. Luke is a leading thinker in the mobile space, well known for popularizing the concept of mobile-first design, and [...]
Posted in Apps, Design, News, Visual | Tagged Android, ebay, Facebook, Fandango, games, internet, iPad, iPhone, Luke Wroblewski, m-commerce, mobile, mobile dev, mobile games, mobile music, mobile trends, mobile usage, pandora, research, smartphones, social media, stats, trends, Twitter, web design |
By Ryan Van Etten on 01/08/2012
You may know that in the A-side of 2011 I had the chance to do the web design for a project of massive value to musicians: the web version of Bas Grasmayer‘s thesis about marketing music through non-linear communication. He studies progress in music business since the MP3 and develops the ecosytem model for marketing [...]
Posted in Music, Music Flux, News, Visual | Tagged artist-fan relationship, Bas Grasmayer, Bas thesis, CwF (connect with fans), Deadmau5, direct-to-fan, Ecosystem Model, free culture, graphics, Internet Generation, Kevin Kelly, marketing, music discovery, MusicBiz, Non-linear communication, poster, research, social music, tribes, web design |
By Ryan Van Etten on 03/27/2011
I love loved email. Now I think it may be the death of me. IMO email has gone out of fashion. Lately when I look in my Gmail inbox I’m a deer in the headlights. I try to reply to everyone who writes me, but, at the same time I don’t want to spend my whole life writing emails.
Posted in Editor Notes, Editorial, Media/Journalism, Randomness, Visual | Tagged communication, culture, email, gmail, gmail search operators, infographic, life, openness, productivity, Ryan Van Etten, stats, story, time, tips, transparency |
By Ryan Van Etten on 02/03/2011
If you’re color blind then this is going to hurt. Based on estimated traffic data from Compete, this visualization depicts web-based music consumption in the U.S. in 2010. Included are sites where music is streamed or downloaded. YouTube, SoundCloud, OurStage, Bandcamp, Grooveshark, ReverbNation, and Vevo all saw notable change in 2010.
Posted in Editorial, Music, Music Flux, News, Popular, Visual | Tagged 2010 year in review, 2010-2011 blizzard series, 8tracks, band websites, bandcamp, Beatport, big media, blip.fm, CDBaby, comparison, consumption, deezer, downloads, Eminem, emusic, Grooveshark, heat map, Hype Machine, iLike, Indaba Music, infographic, iTunes, jamendo, Justin Bieber, last.fm, MOG, most popular apps, music discovery, music industry, music on demand, Napster, NIN, NPR, ourstage, pandora, Pirate Bay, Pitchfork, project playlist, PureVolume, ReverbNation, Rhapsody, Rolling Stone, SHOUTcast, Slacker Radio, songza, SoundCloud, Spotify, stats, streaming, Sysomos, Taylor Swift, Thumbplay Music, trivia, Vevo, visualization, We Are Hunted, we7, YouTube |
By Ryan Van Etten on 01/17/2011
Mashup City: 10 miles. Modern music infrastructure is built on APIs. Developers are programming the future as we speak. We can bet they’re using some of these 30 music APIs to do it. view list »
Posted in Apps, Music, Music Flux, News, Visual | Tagged 2010-2011 blizzard series, 7digital, 7digital API, API, APIShark, bandcamp, Bandcamp API, Bandsintown, Bandsintown API, Billboard, Billboard API, blip.fm, blip.fm API, concert apps, concert listing APIs, development, Discogs, Discogs API, documentation, emusic, eMusic API, event APIs, Eventful, Eventful API, Grooveshark, Grooveshark API, iLike, iLike API, internet, Jambase, Jambase API, jamendo, Jamendo API, last.fm, last.fm API, list, location-based music, mashups, mobile dev, music APIs, music apps, music infrastructure, music mashup, Napster, Napster API, platform, programming, public APIs, radio, radio apps, RealRadios, RealRadios API, resources, RESTful, Rhapsody, Rhapsody API, services, SHOUTcast, social media, social music, Songkick, Songkick API, SoundCloud, SoundCloud API, Spotify, Spotify API, Stream Networks, streaming, Streampad, The Echo Nest, Ticketfly, Ticketfly API, ticketing, tinysong, Tinysong API, Topspin, Topspin API, touring, We Are Hunted, We Are Hunted API, Yahoo, Yahoo Music, Yahoo Music API, YouTube, YouTube API |
By Ryan Van Etten on 12/30/2010
The end of the year is rolling in…the current most popular iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch apps in the iTunes App Store are below—one grid is the top free apps and one is the top paid apps. So…who’s using them? C’mon tell us which apps you just can’t live without! (Data is based on the iTunes App Store in the U.S. in late December, 2010.)
Posted in Apps, iPad Apps, iPhone Apps, Music, Music Flux, News, Visual | Tagged 2010 year in review, 2010-2011 blizzard series, app stores, Apple, best of, best of 2010, Drum Kit, Glee Karaoke, I Am T-Pain, iheart radio, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, iTunes, LaDiDa, list, mobile, mobile music, most popular apps, music apps, MusicID with Lyrics, Ocarina, pandora, PocketGuitar, radio apps, Rhapsody, ringtone apps, Ringtone Designer, ringtones, Shazam, soundhound, stats, top 10, top list, TuneIn Radio, Ultimate Guitar Tabs, Virtuoso Piano, year in review |
