The following is a guest post from Paul Lamere’s MusicMachinery about the Artist’s Hack at SXSW, which was the first Music Hack Day specifically designed to unite musicians and techies. Lamere is director of developer platform for The Echo Nest, which publishes Evolver.fm, and is a Music Hack Day wizard (see also: Infinite Gangnam Style, Bohemian…
Turmoil surrounds the important issue of how iOS developers can sell products and subscriptions within apps. Apple dictates that if you sell stuff within your app, you have to give it a 30 percent cut [although at least now developers can charge whatever they want elsewhere]. Apple also bars developers from linking to places where users can…
For the last year, we’ve heard rumors of how both Apple and Google were getting close to releasing music locker services that allow music listeners to upload their music collection to the cloud, giving them the ability to listen to their music everywhere. So it was a big surprise when the first major player to…
