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| Oct 4, 2013 | Startup Rundown: You Can Now Get A Degree In “Connective Media” And Spin Is Yet Another Group Video App | Cornell Tech’s Connective Media class of 2016 (photo: flickr user whiteafrican)
Tech training Mayor Bloomberg joined Cornell NYC Tech earlier this week to announce a new degree program: a two-year master’s in “connective media.” Cool kids T... |
| May 29, 2013 | Three music startups on the upswing | SAN FRANCISCO — With the old revenue models falling apart, musicians and media folk have needed to get entrepreneurial.
At yesterday’s SFMusicTech conference, attendees discussed new ways to make money for artists, particularly those with a... |
| May 28, 2013 | Fandalism’s Philip Kaplan Launches DistroKid, An Affordable Way To Upload Music To Stores Like iTunes | Earlier this year, Philip Kaplan expanded Fandalism, his social network for musicians, with a service called Fandalism Distro, which allows musicians to bring their songs and albums to iTunes and elsewhere. Today he’s spinning out the distr... |
| May 16, 2013 | Are you the next music tech success story? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
This sponsored post is produced by SF MusicTech S... |
| Mar 5, 2013 | Keen On… Rhapsody: How Streaming Is Radically Reinventing The Music Industry | Brian Zisk’s annual SFMusicTech conference is always a good place to gauge the temperature of the music industry. And judging by the vitality of this year’s event, things are finally beginning to look up in an industry that has been decimat... |
| Feb 13, 2013 | Music and technology? Don’t miss the SF MusicTech Summit! | This sponsored post is prouduced by the SF MusicTech Summit.
The SF MusicTech Summit is a must attend event for entrepreneurs, developers, and music enthusiasts working at the convergence of internet, music and technology. The SF MusicTech ... |
| Feb 13, 2013 | Music and technology? Don’t miss the SF MusicTech Summit! | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
This sponsored post is prouduced by the SF MusicT... |
| Oct 17, 2012 | Bringing Artists & Entrepreneurs Together To Help Each Other | As we mentioned, a week ago on Wednesday, October 10th, we spent the entire day in an “Artists & Entrepreneurs Working Group” brainstorming session. For me, personally, it was a truly fantastic experience: a chance to get together a bun... |
| Oct 9, 2012 | Founder Tim Westergren Says Some Musicians Earn Up To $3 Million A Year From Pandora | Pandora founder Tim Westergren denied claims that musicians earn peanuts from streaming services and said today at SF MusicTech that lower royalty rates would bolster innovation. “There are a couple artists making over $2 million on Pandora... |
| Oct 9, 2012 | How ice, isolation, and poverty will save the music industry | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Rock stars and venture capitalists have two thing... |
| Oct 8, 2012 | Bringing Music & Tech Together To Move Things Forward Productively | Tomorrow is the latest version of the absolutely awesome SF MusicTech Summit, which happens twice a year, and which I rarely miss. It’s always a great place to meet lots of people involved in both music and technology and to have some reall... |
| Sep 24, 2012 | SF MusicTech Summit XI comes to San Francisco Oct. 9 | This sponsored post is produced by SF MusicTech Summit.
The music industry is in a precarious place. The status quo is crumbling, paradigms are shifting, time-honored institutions are facing new hurdles. From artists to consumers to label e... |
| Feb 27, 2012 | Keen On… Audience: Why Fans Are The Real Future Of The Music Business (TCTV) | The most profound of all the digital disruptions that have occurred over the last 20 years has been the breach in trust between the creative artist and audience. It’s this disruption that decimated the traditional recorded music industry; a... |
| Feb 22, 2012 | Keen On… Gracenote: How To Make Data Pay In The Music Business (TCTV) | While the early history of the Internet is littered with the corpses of music start-ups, not all digital music companies have failed. Take, for example, Gracenote. Founded in 1998, the Berkeley based company was sold to Sony in 2008 for $26... |
| Feb 21, 2012 | Keen On… Evan Lowenstein: Why You Can’t Pirate Intimacy (TCTV) | 12 months ago at SFMusicTech, I talked to StageIt founder and CEO Evan Lowenstein about what he called “the new intimacy economy”. And last week at SFMusicTech, I met again with Lowenstein, a former popular musician himself, to talk about S... |
| Feb 17, 2012 | Keen On… Pomplamoose: How Nataly And Jack Are Reinventing The Music Business (TCTV) | So maybe there really is a sensible middle ground in the music business – somewhere between David Lowery’s pessimism and Bram Cohen’s blind faith in our digital future. That future may be the pop music band Pomplamoose. Its members are Nata... |
| Feb 16, 2012 | Keen On… David Lowery: How The Internet Is Shafting Musicians (TCTV) | Not everyone agrees with BitTorrent founder Bram Cohen that the Internet has been good for the musician. Indeed, some musicians think the exact reverse. Take, for example, David Lowery, the lead singer for the bands Camper Van Beethoven and... |
| Feb 15, 2012 | Keen On… Bram Cohen: Has BitTorrent Killed The Music Industry? (TCTV) | I’ve been waiting for this one. Bram Cohen is the Chief Scientist and co-founder of the P2P file sharing service BitTorrent. And he may also be one of the guys most responsible for the decline in the music industry. So I asked Bram, when we... |
| Feb 14, 2012 | Keen On… Bob Weir: Why MP3 Music Is An Assault On Your Nervous System (TCTV) | Most of us know the guitarist and singer-songwriter Bob Weir as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. But Weir is also the founder of Tamalpais Research Institute (TRI), a state-of-the-art performance studio which offers musicians the opp... |
| Feb 13, 2012 | BitTorrent Live: Cheap, Real-Time P2P Video Streaming That Will Kill TV | Television is going the way of the dinosaur, and the deadly comet is called BitTorrent Live. Today, Bram Cohen, the author of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer sharing protocol, demoed his latest creation at the SF MusicTech Summit.
BitTorrent Li... |
| Sep 14, 2011 | Dylan’s Desk: How stressful product launches make stressful products | EDITOR’S NOTE: Each week, I’m going to write a column on an aspect of the business and technology world that VentureBeat covers. My colleague Dean Takahashi will write a column on videogames called DeanBeat. Together, these columns will be ... |
| Sep 13, 2011 | SF MusicTech: A New Hope | I spent most of yesterday at the always excellent SF MusicTech Summit. And, as usual, I try to pull out a “central theme” that seems to come across from the overall event. This year, I actually heard a few people note that it was difficult ... |
| Jul 13, 2011 | Billboard Apparently Unable To Hire Its Own Writers For Copycat Conference; So Just Copies Text From Others | The SFMusicTech events have become something of an institution in San Francisco over the past five years or so, bringing together all sorts of people at the intersection of technology and music for a day. I’ve been to a bunch of them, and h... |
| May 16, 2011 | Keen On… Will The Music Revolution Be Streamed? (TCTV) | For the third set of interviews from last week’s excellent SFMusicTech event, I talk with David Hyman, the current CEO of MOG, the co-founder of Addicted to Noise, former CEO of Gracenote and one of the smartest and most experienced pioneer... |
| May 13, 2011 | Keen On: Can The New Intimacy Economy Save The Music Industry? (TCTV) | Should music artists be like the authoritarian Steve Jobs? Is it their responsibility to know what their fans want better than they do? Evan Lowenstein, the successful singer-songwriter and the current CEO of StageIT, certainly seems to thi... |
| May 18, 2010 | The Increasing Irrelevance Of The Major Record Labels | Yesterday I attended the always worthwhile SF Music Tech Summit. This has to be the fourth or fifth time I’ve gone, and I always find that after it’s all over and I’ve had some time to think about it, I recognize one key theme that kept hit... |
| May 15, 2010 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 15 May 2010 | The upcoming week is full of thought-provoking social-media, startup and tech-related events. One that caught our eye was the SF MusicTech Summit, which looks at the intersection of music, business and technology. Speakers include Ben Folds... |
| May 8, 2010 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 8 May 2010 | A few weeks ago was the Events Guide’s one-year birthday – and while we don’t know how many thousands of conferences, unconferences, seminars, summits and meetings we wrote about over the last year, we can say this: It was a heck of a lot. ... |
| May 1, 2010 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 1 May 2010 | We’ve been plugging it for months, and now it’s finally here: the ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit 2010. It’s not too late to sign up. We’d love to have you join us. It’s going to be the premier place to explore the latest mobile development tren... |
| Apr 24, 2010 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 24 April 2010 | Time is running out to register for the ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit 2010! It’s going to be the premier place to explore the latest mobile development trends – both the technology and the emerging business applications. And since it’s an unco... |
| Apr 17, 2010 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 17 April 2010 | Here’s a little taste of the events coming up in the next few weeks here at the ReadWriteWeb events guide: Seven on Seven, eCommAmerica, DrupalCon, The Real Time Web: Imperative or Insanity?, Big Data Workshop, Future of Money and Technolog... |
| Apr 10, 2010 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 10 April 2010 | There are seven new events on the calendar this week: Head over to Stanford University to learn whether the real-time Web is an imperative or insanity. Check out the Net Prophet conference in Cape Town, South Africa. There’s also the Digita... |
| Apr 9, 2010 | Music Hack Day Is Coming To San Francisco | What do you get when you combine music with frantic, all night hour coding sessions? An event called Music Hack Day, where developers have 24 hours to hack together a new music-related app, which they then show off to their peers at event’s... |
| Apr 3, 2010 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 3 April 2010 | April may bring spring showers here in the U.S., but it’s also bringing nine different conferenced scattered across the country. Drupal, the future of money and technology, the future of tech in the Midwest, social media, the cloud – pick a... |
| Mar 27, 2010 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 27 March 2010 | There are six different events on the calendar this week that are offering you, yes you dear ReadWriteWeb reader, a discount. Social media, music, cloud – six different conferences giving you another enticing reason to get up from behind yo... |
| Mar 20, 2010 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 20 March 2010 | In the next few weeks, the ReadWriteWeb events guide will take you from New York City, to San Francisco, to Portland, Oregon. Along the way you’ll find a conference on search engine strategies, a showcase for startups, an in-depth look at t... |
| Mar 13, 2010 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 13 March 2010 | It’s SXSW weekend so you may be pretty burnt out on conferences – or just sick and tired of hearing about them – but if you’re in New York City this week, don’t miss what’s sure to be a profound and fascinating conversation between Chinese ... |
| Mar 6, 2010 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 6 March 2010 | This week we added one of the most exciting events of the year to the calendar: the ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit 2010. Sure, we’re a little biased, but we think the conference is the place this year to learn about mobile development trends. W... |
| Jan 27, 2010 | Why We Need Tech Events for Women | At the last Twiistup event, on a panel with diehard Los Angeles entrepreneurs and investors Yammer CEO David Sacks explained that Southern Californians wouldn’t need to have a panel on Los Angeles startups if it really did receive the same ... |
| Dec 18, 2009 | 2010 Won't Be the Year Of the Mobile Phone, Either | At last week's San Francisco Music Tech conference, Motorola's Senior Director of Multimedia Dave Ulmer said "Every year we're here, and every year we say 'This is the year of the mobile'. And it hasn't been." Fresh off his compan... |
| Dec 18, 2009 | Customers Won't Have a Seamless Internet Car Radio Experience For A While | Pandora and other Internet radio companies may be going after the vehicle market, but they still haven't conquered the classic radio hurdle â€"- a seamless broadcast.
At the recent San Francisco Music Tech conference, Pandora Radio CTO... |
| Dec 10, 2009 | 10 Ways Social Media Will Change In 2010 | This time last year, I wrote about the 10 ways social media will change 2009, and while all predictions have materialized or are on their way, it has only become clear in recent months how significant of a change we’ve seen this year. 2009 ... |
| Dec 9, 2009 | Getting Past The 'But Artists Should Just Be Artists' Myth | At Monday’s excellent SF Music Tech Summit, there was a really good discussion in the final panel of the day, that crystallized in my mind why it’s hogwash when some repeat the refrain that “artists should just be artists” and not worry abo... |
| Dec 8, 2009 | Getting The Music Business Over The 'But We Must Sell Music' Hump | On Monday, I attended and participated in the always excellent twice yearly event, the SF Music Tech Summit. As always, it was a fun time, full of interesting people. While smaller than some of the big music events, pound for pound, I tend ... |
| Dec 5, 2009 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 5 December 2009 | We hope you’re enjoying these weekly events guide. As always, you can download the entire event calendar in iCal format or import it into your Google Calendar. You can also import individual events using the link beside each entry. This eve... |
| Nov 28, 2009 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 28 November 2009 | We hope you’re enjoying these weekly events guide. As always, you can download the entire event calendar in iCal format or import it into your Google Calendar. You can also import individual events using the link beside each entry. This eve... |
| Nov 22, 2009 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 21 November 2009 | Here is this week’s ReadWriteWeb events guide. As always, you can download the entire event calendar in iCal format or import it into your Google Calendar. You can also import individual events using the link beside each entry. This events ... |
| Nov 14, 2009 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 14 November 2009 | We’ve added a couple of more events to this week’s events guide. You can download the entire event calendar in iCal format or import it into your Google Calendar. You can also import individual events using the link beside each entry. This ... |
| Nov 7, 2009 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 7 November 2009 | Here is this week’s events guide. You can download the entire event calendar in iCal format or import it into your Google Calendar. You can also import individual events using the link beside each entry. This events guide is a weekly featur... |
| Oct 31, 2009 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 31 October 2009 | Time for this week’s events guide. You can download the entire event calendar in iCal format or import it into your Google Calendar. You can also import individual events using the link beside each entry. This events guide is a weekly featu... |
| Oct 24, 2009 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 24 October 2009 | Check out the events on tap in this week’s events guide. You can download the entire event calendar in iCal format or import it into your Google Calendar. You can also import individual events using the link beside each entry. This events g... |
| Oct 17, 2009 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 17 October 2009 | You’ll find a few more great new events this week on the ReadWriteWeb events guide. You can download the entire event calendar in iCal format or import it into your Google Calendar. You can also import individual events using the link besid... |
| Sep 24, 2008 | VentureBeat sponsors San Francisco MusicTech Summit | Those who follow our blog know that VentureBeat is serious about digital media. Everything from big moves by YouTube to rapidly growing gaming start-ups raising a fat round — we’re usually there to write it up. It should come as no surprise... |
| Startup Sesame First Annual Report & Fourth Call or Entries
| Startup Sesame announces first annual report and new DeepTech track as call for applications for Season 4 of the event acceleration program opens.
91% of Tech event participants surveyed, report that attending events was beneficial to their... |
