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…
Oh, poor Nickelback — the band just can’t catch a break on these here internets. Not only was it deemed the number one turnoff amongst potential dating partners, but it has also been the target of a newspaper takedown and a football fan boycott, and even lost a popularity contest to a pickle. Now, some clever person has…
Clearly, people are nervous about the new Facebook. We, too, are concerned that it represents a big step in the privatization of the internet, which is a public good that people don’t seem to want to use in its unmediated form. Who wants to run their own web and email servers these days, or write…
We’ve learned of another music twist for Facebook’s F8 announcement on Thursday: Myxer Social Radio, from the six-year-old MP3, wallpaper, and ringtone company Myxer. It plans to join the social, smartphone world with a real-time group listening streaming radio service that will let friends listen together via Facebook — not only that, but it will…
Clearly, there’s no lack of start-ups these days trying to help us merge online and offline identities. At times, the TechCrunch Disrupt conference we checked out earlier this week seemed to be about little else. But the Sonar Mobile Profile for Local Social Networking iOS app appears to offer something special for music fans — and,…
If you have any familiarity with interactive radio, you probably already know Pandora Radio, which counts every tenth person in the United States as an active user. The California-based service, created by The Music Genome Project, has cemented its place atop the online streaming ranks thanks to an in-depth recommendation feature that has proved one…
