You might not have heard of the Belgian band, Amatorski. Neither had we, but The Guardian UK called them “the best Belgian act around,” which counts for something — as does the fact that their music sounds pretty great (even after playing this on repeat). Most of all, we’re impressed by their Deleting Borders project, an interactive HTML5 collaboration…
As noted in our hands-on review of Twitter’s new app for iOS and the web, Twitter #music, that app looks at Twitter alone to find music for you to listen to and musicians for you to follow. However, Twitter’s acquisition of We Are Hunted — and with it, Stephen Philips, Richard Slatter, and Michael Doherty…
Twitter is all over the music tech news today, but Facebook just quietly rolled out another social music feature too: the ability to specify what you are listening to — you know, the same way the new Twitter #music app lets you say what’s #NowPlaying. When you post a status update on Facebook, a new…
Facebook Home phones will be officially available to anyone with a supported Android device on Friday, but some clever folks at MoDaCo obtained the code in advance of its release and then leaked it, allowing people to play around with it early. The Verge posted a nice walk-through of the main features(video below), but what…
The Facebook phone is here, sort of. Mark Zuckerberg announced in a livestreamed event today that the HTC First ($100, AT&T) will be the first in a series of Facebook Home phones starting April 12, from partners including AT&T, Alcatel, EE, HTC, HTC, Huawei, Orange, Samsung, OneTouch, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Sony, and ZTE. In other words,…
BandPage began as an insanely popular tool that bands could use to connect with fans (and vice versa) on Facebook, but now, it’s also a standalone Thing Of Its Own. The latest version lets fans do something new: buy BandPage Experiences, which are one-of-a-kind experiences with their favorite musicians [ed. note: the kind you might see on…
Flattr has traditionally been an online tip jar with a twist: You pay into an account first, and then decide who gets the money later. On Monday, Flattr announced a big change to this approach that intertwines it across internet where it belongs. You can now connect a Flattr account to a growing number of…
We were struck by something today, as we pored over Facebook’s redesign looking for the music implications. You can even see it in the current (i.e. old, already un-hip) version of Facebook that most of us are still using: You’ve probably noticed it before: “Search for people, places and things.” This imperative sentence, primarily made up…
Facebook reinvented itself again at a live event in Menlo Park, California on Thursday, where it announced “a new look for news feeds.” Perhaps having learned from earlier rollouts, which seemed to freak out Facebook habitues with the suddenness of the changes and occasionally privacy implications, Facebook adopted a “velvet rope” stance, in these early days…
SoundTracking, Apple’s favorite music app of 2011, celebrates the moments of your life with music on iOS, and last fall, became a Spotify app. Its vision expands again with Tuesday’s integration of full-length tracks that play within the app, from Rdio, Spotify, or YouTube. You can add these features in the latest update. The company…
Facebook has an annoying habit of disrupting what you’re listening to by playing little ‘ping’ sounds when messages show up, someone you follow posts something, your post gets Liked, and in other scenarios. This appears to be a relatively new issue. These pings can be helpful if you’re trying to ruin your ability to do…
The proliferation of social and music services are good for music fans, overall. But do we really need to see every song our friends play? I think we all know the answer: There is such a thing as too much information, at least where humans are concerned. (Machines are different.) It usually makes more sense…
Facebook knows when you are in a relationship, when it’s complicated, and when you break up. It also knows what music you’re listening to, across lots of different apps, because Facebook is the internet’s new mega-scrobbler – a feature it calls “Facebook listen.” So, as of Valentine’s Day, which are the lovey-dovey-est jams — the ones people…
Digital music wonks (like us) got all excited when Facebook added the ability to let you jump in to what someone else is listening to, in real time. Maybe that’s cooler as a concept than an actual thing, though. It’s certainly not something that I do — and I listen to music as much as…
Facebook knows what you like and to a great extent, what you are doing, and it’s working on turning that into a social search engine. But even before that rolls out to my particular account, I’m seeing something new in my feed: an album recommendation. I like Yo La Tengo, but I have never “Liked”…
