| Date | Title | Description |
| 28.06.2013 | Yahoo killing off 12 products including AltaVista, RSS Alerts, Axis, & more | Hasta la vista, AltaVista. Yahoo has decided to shut down that old-school search engine as well as 11 other products.
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer previously committed the company to refining its products and making sure it focuses resources on ... |
| 26.09.2009 | Your Guide to Music on the Web, Part II | Last month, I published Part 1 of my Guide To Music On The Web, which covered music recommendation sites, Web radio, independent music sites, playlists, and music visualizations. Today, in Part II we’ll take a tour of music search engines, ... |
| 07.06.2009 | Kickstarting a 7" | I was meeting with the team at one of our portfolio companies last week and we got to talking about music. I was asked if I ever "broke a band" on this blog. I said, "I don't think so." Then someone suggested that I had ... |
| 22.02.2009 | How To Make Twitter Sound Like Music To Your Ears | People generally love sharing things, and Twitter has made broadcasting updates to anyone who cares to care on what you’re doing, wearing, reading, commenting on, eating, using, etc. a breeze; in 140 characters or less, even. It’s only natu... |
| 06.12.2008 | Delicious Has A Brand New Audio Player For MP3 Bookmarks | Social bookmarking pioneer Delicious (they recently turned five years old) pushed out a couple of updates to its Internet Explorer and Firefox add-ons yesterday, fixing a couple of bugs and adding some features. But it looks like Delicious ... |
| 14.04.2008 | WikiFM – Great Idea, Poor Execution | Recently, a new Wikipedia mashup came on the scene – WikiFM, this one a mashup of Wikipedia and popular music streaming service Last.fm. The mashup lets you listen to Last.fm via a player loaded in a frame on the right while the Wikipedia p... |
| 04.02.2008 | Yahoo! Gets Behind Rhapsody | It had been rumored for months that Yahoo! was going to get out of the subscription music business. Yesterday, they announced that they were shutting down Yahoo! Unlimited and turning over the subscriber base to Rhapsody. Yahoo! also announ... |
| 04.02.2008 | Yahoo ends Music Unlimited, what about its DRM-free service in the works? | Yahoo, stuck between financial hardships and a potential Microsoft hostile takeover, has decided to kill off its Yahoo Music Unlimited subscription music service, moving those customers over to RealNetworks’ Rhapsody music service. While Ya... |
| 04.02.2008 | Breaking: In The Middle of The Storm, Yahoo! Acquires Israeli FoxyTunes | A couple of weeks ago we reported several rumors of acquisition of Israel-based FoxyTunes a Firefox plugin that allows users to control their favorite media players from the browser. According to several sources the acquisition has been com... |
| 18.01.2008 | Yahoo! rumoured to be buying FoxyTunes | Yahoo! is in negotiations to buy Israel-based FoxyTunes, according to TechCrunch.com. The Firefox plugin allows users to control their favorite media players from the browser. Yahoo has made overtures towards shaking things up in music and ... |
| 17.01.2008 | Yahoo May Be Looking To Buy Israel's FoxyTunes | Rumors popped up here in Silicon Valley that Yahoo is in negotiations to buy Israel-based FoxyTunes.
The Foxytunes core service is a Firefox plugin that allows users to control their favorite media players from the browser. It has a small b... |
| 15.07.2007 | The Veils | The Veils
Originally uploaded by Mark Bruko.
Writing about music is so easy. I’ll find myself listening to something and I feel like I have to blog about the music. And that’s all there is too it.
We’ve been listening a lot to The Veils lat... |
| 13.07.2007 | The Shout Out Louds | Shout out louds
Originally uploaded by concertbuddy.
One of the greatest unheard of records in the past several years is Howl Howl Gaff Gaff by the Shout Out Louds.
Jessica found the record on MySpace or somewhere like that and turned our f... |
| 11.07.2007 | Top 10 Twitter Apps | Twitter has been a runaway success
since the status message inspired web app launched about a year ago. Its rapid adoption,
ease of use and extensibility resulted in a lot of excited developers taking Twitter’s
best bits and mixing them up ... |
| 06.07.2007 | The South Will Rise Again | Kings Of Leon did it to me. That opening to Joe’s Head. It took me back to the 70s and the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd. I was always more of a Skynyrd fan. The Gotham Gal is more Allmans. We grew up on it and then kind of left it beh... |
| 01.07.2007 | DJ'ing Via Twitter | One of the things I love about twitter is that people are building all kinds of cool stuff on top of the platform. The latest is a "peer produced" radio station where twitter users are the DJs, courtesy of Foxy Tunes.
Here’s how i... |
| 27.06.2007 | Wilco In Brooklyn | Wilco 6/26/07
Originally uploaded by muzikspy.
Wilco is one of my top ten bands based on any measure you want to use. Its been that way for the past six or seven years
When Jeff Tweedy comes to town, I go see him play. And he never lets me ... |
| 23.06.2007 | Another Discovery | This time on Radio Paradise, the greatest indie radio station, which may unfortunately go out of business soon.
I was listening to their 128 kpbs stream and heard this song, called The Leaver’s Dance, by a band called The Veils. Kind of a C... |
| 19.06.2007 | Panic Prevention | This record, Panic Prevention, has been in heavy rotation since I got it last week.
It’s had the same effect on me that the first Streets record, Original Pirate Material, had on me when I first got it. All I want to do is listen again and ... |
| 15.06.2007 | Jamie T | Corey, who used to run tech at UBO back in the first bubble, stopped by today to tell me what he’s up these days. He brought me a CD which was nice. It’s called Panic Prevention by a UK artist called Jamie T. Jamie T sounds like Mike Skinne... |
| 06.06.2007 | Kings of Leon At Roseland | Kings of Leon
Originally uploaded by Kyle Dean Reinford.
Caleb’s a rock star in the grand tradition of charismatic frontmen. He looks the part, acts the part, and is the part and does it without trying.
It stems from the songs and the deliv... |
| 04.06.2007 | MP3 Of The Day | Austin Texas is a cool place and there’s a band out of Austin that reminds me of Belle and Sebastian. They are called Voxtrot and I was turned on to them by Jessica recently. Their self titled record has been on my heavy rotation for the pa... |
| 10.05.2007 | Bittersweet | I just talked to the Gotham Gal and the kids. They went to see The National and Arcade Fire play Radio City last night. And as I expected, it was a transcendent experience. Radio City is my favorite place to see a show and The National and ... |
| 01.05.2007 | Modest Mouse At The United Palace Theater | MODEST MOUSE
Originally uploaded by meg bourne.
Jackson and I went up to Washington Heights to the newest rock music venue in NYC, The United Palace Theater, to see Modest Mouse last night. We met my friend John and a friend of his and saw ... |
| 25.04.2007 | Roundup: Jobs misled, VoIP on Blackberry, Zude, Twitter grows, more | Apple’s Steve Jobs dealt setback — Former Apple finance chief Fred Anderson now says Apple chief executive Steve Jobs misled him about stock option accounting. Story here, and statement by Anderson here. Question: Will this bring down Jobs?... |
| 23.04.2007 | FoxyTunes Planet & TwittyTunes | This is a long overdue post, but better late than never. I’ve had the FoxyTunes extension in my Firefox browser for something like a year and a half. It’s also available for Internet Explorer. The one feature that got me to install it was a... |
