Wired writes about Warner's move to pull out of social music site Last.fm:
Warner Music Group has confirmed that its music is no longer available through Last.fm's on-demand music streaming service.Last.fm users can still stream music from Warner's artists via their artist-based radio stations (see below), because those songs are licensed under a different deal.
CNet News.com writes about social music site Last.fm:
Warner Music would not comment on the reason for leaving Last.fm, but the label's departure is certainly a setback for the social-networking site. Warner was the first of the major labels to do a deal with Last.fm.
Silicon Alley Insider writes about social music site Last.fm:
Warner Music Group (WMG) has pulled its catalog out of Last.fm's "on demand" free streaming service, which the CBS-owned service launched to great fanfare in January. Users can still hear Warner artists via the site's "radio" option, which doesn't allow you to select individual songs. But you can't order up individual songs from WMG artists.
ReadWriteWeb writes about social tv site YouTube:
The theme for this week must be the erosion of market share for dominant technologies. Earlier, we reported on the Firefox web browser's steady march into Internet Explorer territory, and today NewTeeVee points to a recent study from Ipsos MediaCT that shows the PC continuing to encroach on the television's dominating position for eyeball time when it comes to video watching. Where are you watching video? Vote in our poll below.
ReadWriteWeb writes about social tv site UStream.TV:
Live video broadcasting service Ustream.tv will announce tomorrow that live feeds on the company's website and distributed video players got a combined 10 million unique viewers last month. If those numbers are solid, it's a major validation of live streaming video on the web.
ReadWriteWeb writes about google and its plan for a mobile social network:
It’s hard not to be impressed by the latest demonstration of Android, Google’s soon-to-be-released open-source mobile OS. While last100's Dan Langendorf is reserving judgment, I’m already sold on Android’s User Interface. Of course, the biggest promise of Android isn’t its UI but its openness, and it’s here where comparisons to the iPhone are also inevitable. But Google is banking on one app that carriers and handset makers won't want to touch - the browser.
Ars technica writes about U2's manager comment on social music issues:
Music Matters 2008 has been going on in Hong Kong this week, offering the music business the chance to "plug into Asia." One of the featured speakers was the manager of U2, Paul McGuiness, who used the opportunity to blast Internet service providers for the harm they've done to the music business. McGuiness called on ISPs to "embrace the future," but his speech made it clear that his vision of the future includes at least two things that the ISPs are unlikely to have any interest in: playing traffic cop, and handing revenues over to the music business.
CenterNetworks writes about U2's approach towards social music:
I read the article and it’s essentially stating that their manager, Paul McGuinness, while talking at a music conference in Hong Kong, accused the ISPs of strangling the music industry. “ISPs” were compared to shoplifters. You get where it’s going from here and can read the rest of the article, but now, I’d like to voice my opinion.
Mashable writes about social music site Blip:
This is the idea behind Blip, a new service from Fuzz. that allows you to microblog ala Twitter, but with the added feature of using an MP3 search to embed the song you are currently listening to into the post so that others can check it out. Unlike SeeqPod, which has run afoul of legal questions, Blip is “Obviously it is legal and it’s covered by the DMCA,” according to Fuzz CEO, Jeff Yasuda.
TechCrunch writes about social music site Pandora:
Personalized radio service Pandora has taken the plunge and released an AIR application into beta that allows users to play music from Pandora without opening the browser.
When I first heard of this development, I thought it was such a cool idea. Music playback is one of those things that really doesn’t need a full browser experience; just give me a simple control panel to enter songs, play and pause, and fast forward.
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