January 22nd, 2009 1:59pm
Music Tech In Brief
Fuzz.Com, one of the infinite number of music/social networking sites out there, is going tits-up on 2/13. Their announcement cites “increasing operating costs and flat revenues.” Their music-centric Twitter clone, Blip.FM, will live on.
Speaking of flat revenues, Pandora has begun inserting audio ads in their service. I don’t expect the users will cotton to that.
And speaking of upsetting users, Sirius XM is going to raise their subscription rates, and also, begin charging for their now-free online streaming. A Lefsetz diatribe on this is practically inevitable.
Anthony voices his concerns about the new Echo Nest PromoBot, “the web’s first targeted online music promotion system, that acts like a recommendation engine for music marketers.” Bloggers all over the world: rejoice at the prospect of even more PR emails in your inbox!
1/22/09 10:52 pm
DaggerEyes says:Man I love Pandora but this is f**kin bullshit
1/22/09 11:02 pm
Ryan Catbird says:Dudes gotta eat, you know. You can always buy their paid membership, it’s, like, $30– and that’ll cut out the ads.