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| Dec 10, 2009 | SeeqPod's Assets Are Finally Being Sold, And Its Team Is Coming Back For More | The tumultuous story of music search engine Seeqpod is finally coming to a close. Last June, we wrote that the company was looking to sell off its domain name, with evidence suggesting that it was about to be acquired by Microsoft. That did... |
| Sep 26, 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, ... |
| Aug 30, 2009 | Songbeat Gets A Second Life As Excellent Music App With Uncertain Future | I liked Songbeat the minute I started using it. First released as a desktop app for Seeqpod back in January 2008, the upgraded version that was introduced nearly 12 months after that not only made searching for music extremely simple but al... |
| Jun 9, 2009 | Seeqpod Starts Shopping Domain Name, Acquisition Talks Nearing Close | It’s been a tumultous few months for Seeqpod, the powerful music search engine that skimmed the web for music files hosted on other servers. In March the site finally cracked under the weight of multiple lawsuits brought on by the major rec... |
| May 15, 2009 | Trouble Ahead For Blip.fm? | In an honest blog post, music recommendation and streaming service Blip.fm (which we likened to a Twitter for music when it launched almost exactly one year ago), CEO Jeff Yasuda has indicated that the startup is going through a rough phase... |
| May 8, 2009 | Did SeeqPod Find A Savior In Redmond? | We’ve covered SeeqPod quite a bit here on TechCrunch. The San Francisco startup has been hard at work to develop a way to intelligently index media files on the Web to make them searchable online, and introduced an API which many other star... |
| Apr 27, 2009 | Seeqpod Knocked Down, Will It Ever Get Up? | Seeqpod, the ill-fated startup behind the kick-ass media search technology used by many music streaming and playlist services and social networking applications, appears to have cracked under the weight of litigation.
At the end of last mon... |
| Apr 1, 2009 | SeeqPod bullied into bankruptcy by record industry | reader comments 20 with 14 posters participating
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| Mar 31, 2009 | Troubled SeeqPod Files For Bankruptcy Protection | SeeqPod, the popular “playable media” search service that many music sites use as the foundation for their core offering, has filed a petition for Chapter 11 yesterday with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of the Northern District of California.
T... |
| Mar 30, 2009 | Streamzy Done Streaming, Up For Sale On eBay | Now that popular music streaming service SeeqPod has decided to sell its source code to developers to spawn more clones, one of the media search startups that built upon its API is apparently calling it quits: Streamzy, which we profiled in... |
| Mar 23, 2009 | MixTape.me is a Brilliant Musical Mashup | A few days ago, over at Gina Trapani’s new Smarterware blog, I read about another new web-based music player and playlist creator, MixTape.me. I’ve reviewed severaltakes on the same basic concept recently, so I didn’t immediately write this... |
| Mar 11, 2009 | Social music startup DropPlay blends YouTube, Facebook and Pandora | Social music startup DropPlay launched today, tying together YouTube, Facebook and a recommendation service similar to Pandora Radio to provide what the company claims is the equivalent of a free online version of iTunes. The site lets you ... |
| Mar 9, 2009 | EMI's Outrageous Lawsuit Against Developer Takes Its Toll | Last month I wrote about a lawsuit filed by major record label EMI against Seeqpod, the questionably-legal free streaming music site. The suit isn’t Seeqpod’s first (Warner sued them last year), but it is notable for taking the music indust... |
| Feb 25, 2009 | Music Labels Reach A New Low, Sue Developer For Using Seeqpod API | It’s no secret that the record industry hates Seeqpod, a music site that lets users stream songs for free. Last year the company was sued by Warner Music Group (the outcome of the suit is still pending). Now, the company has just been slapp... |
| Feb 24, 2009 | More record companies take aim at music search engine SeeqPod | EMI and Capitol Records have jumped on the bandwagon, filing suit against music search engine SeeqPod for copyright infringement in New York. They’re following in the footsteps of Warner Music Group, which took action against the site in Ca... |
| Dec 23, 2008 | Top 100 Products of 2008 | Over December we’ve published ten top 10 lists of the top products of 2008. We intend to open these lists up for public voting in 2009, to tap into the wisdom of the intelligent crowd that reads our site. But for now, you’ll have to make do... |
| Dec 19, 2008 | SeeqPod, a way to search for music and video on your mobile phone | SeeqPod, a company that lets you search for any “playable” content (music, video, presentations, etc) on the internet, legal and illegal, has released a stand-alone application for the Windows Mobile Platform today.
The application is meant... |
| Dec 19, 2008 | Top 10 Alternative Search Engines of 2008 | Editor’s Note: This list was contributed by Charles Knight, editor of AltSearchEngines, a former RWW network blog.
In terms of user experience, the gap between the major search engines and their alternatives continues to widen — a lot. Goog... |
| Dec 18, 2008 | Mashup Culture Under Attack: Mixwit Goes The Way Of Muxtape | The digital mixtape is dying on the Web. The RIAA is killing it just like it tries to kill anything that smacks of consumer-driven innovation. Digital mixtapes are nothing more than shared playlists. Sites that make it easy to create and sh... |
| Dec 1, 2008 | Songbeat Makes Searching For Music Online Really Simple | There’s a new version of Songbeat, a simple but powerful desktop application for discovering music online, and I like it. When it was first released earlier this year, the client only enabled you to search for music online using Seeqpod, bu... |
| Oct 27, 2008 | 8tracks: The "Legal Muxtape" That Continues To Thrive | 8tracks, the “legal Muxtape” that allows users to build playlists consisting of eight tracks and share them with friends, has launched a number of new improvements designed to flesh out the site beyond basic music playback. Users will now b... |
| Oct 22, 2008 | Want to hear the free songs coming to Rock Band 2 on November 4th? We've got the streams | Anxious to hear the 20 new free songs Harmonix is planning to unleash come November 4th? So were we. Through the magic of the internets, we were able to track down streamable copies of 17 of the 20 songs.
The only downside? For most of the ... |
| Oct 9, 2008 | SonicSwap Puts Your iTunes Library On The Web For Streaming And Sharing | Since the launch of YouTube’s API and the release of Seeqpod, we’ve seen many sites emerge that allow users to create playlists of their favorite songs that can be streamed free of charge. Unfortunately, this can be a tedious task – oftenti... |
| Sep 25, 2008 | Muxtape Is Dead – Favtape Emerges as a Great Alternative | While Muxtape’s Justin Ouellette just posted a dire story about the shutdown of the popular mixtape service and his dealings with the music industry, Favtape has updated its service dramatically.
Muxtape will effectively remain closed for t... |
| Sep 19, 2008 | Favtape Relaunches As Muxtape On Steroids | It has been just over a month since Muxtape, a popular music site that let users share the online equivalent of cassette mixtapes, was shut down by the RIAA for copyright infringement issues. Since then we’ve seen the site reborn in a few i... |
| Sep 8, 2008 | Hangout Lets It All Hang Out, Wants to Become a 3-D, Interactive MySpace | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A Boston startup transposing MySpace-style teen social networking into a 3-D virtual environment is one of the companies making its public debut at this week’s TechCrunch50 co... |
| Sep 2, 2008 | We7 adds EMI Music tracks | We7 – the ad-supported music download service based in the UK backed by Eden Ventures and Spark Ventures – has signed a deal to add 400,000 tracks from EMI Music’s repertoire of artists, including, appropriately, We7 founder investor Peter ... |
| Aug 18, 2008 | What Would the Perfect Streaming Music Service Look Like? | Pandora‘s on the ropes, Imeem is taking off, Grooveshark relaunched today with recommendations and a long list of cool features, Blip.fm threatens to make Muxtape look like old news – the streaming music market online is expanding and contr... |
| Jul 3, 2008 | Streamzy: A Fresh Face For Seeqpod's Streaming Music | We’ve seen a number of music sites like Seeqpod and Grooveshark that leverage user-uploaded music scattered across the web to offer free, on-demand jukeboxes. These services manage to skirt legal repercussions by only serving content that i... |
| Jul 3, 2008 | SeeqPod Launches PodLists | The music search engine SeeqPod has just announced a new service for music fans: “PodLists.” Because of the massive amount of playable search results available on the SeeqPod service – 12 million at the moment and ever-growing – it can be d... |
| Jun 26, 2008 | Jogli's Music Search Streams 500M Songs, 12M Albums | Meet Jogli, a music search engine that claims to offer immediate listening access to 500M songs and 12M albums.
It would be valid to argue that there can’t possibly be more room for yet another music destination. However, having spent the p... |
| May 16, 2008 | Songza Announces Facebook App and API | The music search engine and Internet jukebox, Songza, lets you seek out any song on the web and stream it immediately. In January of this year, we announced the site’s partnerships with Seeqpod and Skreemr, which allowed them to grown their... |
| May 12, 2008 | Twitter for Music | Twitter is an efficient technology for spreading and harvesting concise ideas. Unfortunately, it’s not so great for sharing rich media. Want to broadcast a video? You’ll have to settle for a TinyURL to YouTube, or maybe switch over to Seesm... |
| May 5, 2008 | Signing Off, And What Does A TechCrunch Writer Actually Use? | This is my last post at TechCrunch as a full time writer (I may yet do the occasional guest post). It’s exactly 12 months to the day since I started writing here and the date seemed like a good time to go. I won’t bore you with a self indul... |
| Apr 27, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup, 21-25 April 2008 | This week was a hectic one, with a number of RWW writers present at the annual Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. The big Internet news of the week was the launch of Microsoft’s Live Mesh. Yahoo also announced key support for Social Graph and d... |
| Apr 16, 2008 | MyPlayList Combines Flickr And Online Music | MyPlayList, a bootstrapped startup from Agentbleu, a Englishman living in France, combines streamed music and Flickr for a free music service that delivers visual as well as musical abundance.
MyPlayList uses the XSPF xml format to combine ... |
| Mar 24, 2008 | Mixwit's Mixtapes and Broader Social Media Ambitions | Mixwit makes it easy to create embeddable mixtapes (otherwise known as custom playlists). We touched upon the company a couple weeks ago as part of our Y Combinator demo day roundup but never gave it our full treatment.
A similarly-named se... |
| Mar 24, 2008 | Imeem Launches Developer Platform for Music Social Networking | Major social networking site
Imeem
launched
a developer platform
tonight that will enable read/write access to user information and more. Imeem is a site where users can upload music, create and listen to any uploads and blog about music al... |
| Mar 14, 2008 | Y Combinator Demo Day Roundup for Spring 2008 | The fledgling startups listed below will present their ideas and initial products to investors at this spring’s Y Combinator Demo Day on March 18. Of the 19 companies in this batch, 10 have already launched and only one remains in stealth m... |
| Feb 25, 2008 | 10 Recommended Recommendation Engines | Alex Iskold just posted Rethinking Recommendation Engines, a product type that we here at ReadWriteWeb have explored a lot over the past year or so. In this follow-up post, we present 10 recommendation engines that we like. And we don’t inc... |
| Feb 9, 2008 | The Color of Music | Moody
offers a different way
to categorize your music collection. Using color-coded tagging, this app lets
you categorize your iTunes music based on the “mood” of the song. Horizontally,
the scale goes from sad to happy, and vertically the ... |
| Feb 4, 2008 | MP3 Search on Your Mobile With Mowser | Telephony-head Russell Beattie added an MP3 search and download feature to his mobile service Mowser tonight, powered by music search engine SeeqPod. The service makes it remarkably easy to search for, download and listen to any song online... |
| Jan 30, 2008 | Music remix | To say the music business is a bit volatile would be a gross understatement — at least looking at this past week. Just one week ago, I posted a comparison of 38 of the best sites for listening to music on the cheap. Since then, one company ... |
| Jan 25, 2008 | Warner Music Sues Seeqpod | Warner Music has filed suit against music search engine Seeqpod for copyright infringement.
Seeqpod offers a music search engine that allows users to play music they find directly on the site. According to comScore the service had over 6 mi... |
| Jan 23, 2008 | 38 free/cheap music sites — Welcome to the fray, Qbox! | Ever since Napster brought free MP3s mainstream — and subsequently garnered the wrath of the Recording Industry Association of America — the music industry has been reeling.
No single strategy for listening to music online has come to domin... |
| Jan 23, 2008 | Songza, Last.fm Expand Music Libraries | Music sites Songza and Last.fm separately announced major upgrades to their streaming music libraries. In Songza’s case, the additional tracks came via partnerships with competing web sites, while Last.fm snagged the support of major labels... |
| Jan 18, 2008 | Songza Adds More Songs With Help From Seeqpod | Today Songza just got bigger by embracing one of its rivals. The music-search engine (and Crunchies nominee) is incorporating song search results from Seeqpod, expanding the number of songs it can stream from 15.5 million to 23.5 million. N... |
| Jan 15, 2008 | The Music Industry's Going to Love This: Desktop Client for SeeqPod Released | A new desktop application called Songbeat has been released that allows you to search the web for MP3s using Seeqpod technology, stream those MP3s, and even download them.
Seeqpod, which we covered alongside Skreemr and Songza, is a search ... |
| Dec 18, 2007 | Fashion Social Network Chictini Harmonizes with SeeqPod | Chictini is a social network, launched just this fall, where people can submit fashionable items (clothes, accessories, art, and even electronics) found on the websites of online retailers. Members (“chicsters”) vote submitted items up or d... |
| Nov 28, 2007 | Music Search Engines Tread Fine Legal Line | Music search engines are just one of the many ways to get free music on the Internet (BitTorrent and MP3Sparks, formerly AllofMP3, are other popular ways). But for some users they are a near perfect way to listen to music on demand, and/or ... |
| Sep 21, 2007 | MatchMine Raises $10m for Media Recommendation Engine | MatchMine, a Massachusetts company building a cross-platform media recommendation engine, announced this morning that they have received a $10 million investment from The Kraft Group. The company released an early product called MyMovieMatc... |
| Aug 12, 2007 | Read/WriteWeb Files: Online Music | Every week we have a feature called Read/WriteWeb Files, in which we investigate a current hot topic or company in Web technology. This week we’re going to focus on Online Music, something that is becoming more and more prevelant as broadba... |
| Jul 26, 2007 | SeeqPod Music and Recommendation Search Engine | The team behind SeeqPod, a music search and recommendation engine, believes strongly in what they call “playable search.” SeeqPod trawls the web, indexing all the music files it finds, and then offers them for playback direct from that loca... |
| Jul 2, 2007 | SeeqPod, “playable” music search | SeeqPod is a music search and recommendation website that indexes uploaded music from around the web and lets you instantly play the songs you find when you search.
There are other music search sites with some similar functions, like imeem ... |
| Jan 28, 2007 | The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines | Written by Charles S. Knight,
SEO, and edited by Richard MacManus. The Top 100 is listed at the end of the
analysis.
Ask anyone which search engine they use to find information on the Internet
and they will almost certainly reply: “Google.”... |