It's the highlight of MidemNet Day Two! I'm contractually obliged to say this. It's the Music Ally / MidemNet New Business Showcase, which spotlights seven of the hottest new music startups, and gets the audience to vote on which is most exciting.Or, as I'm renaming it this week, it's the 'can six innovative music startups possibly prevail in an audience vote against a lightsaber-shaped gadget that lets you scratch Jimi Hendrix tunes?' contest. You'll see what I mean.The startups are Catch Media, Passionato, SoundCloud, The Echo Nest, MPTrax, Instinctive, and a device created by an industrial design student at the Eindhoven University of Technology. That's the lightsaber thing…First up is Catch Media, and its Play Anywhere service. It's a system they've been working on for some time promising “convenience for the consumer and profitability for the industry – monetizing consumption to drive acquisition”. I'm sure you're nodding your head in agreement.”Why after 13 years do 65 million households in the US not have an MP3 player, and why do only 4% of cellphone owners use their cellphone as a video or audio player?” asks CTO Boaz Ben-Yaacov. “We're trying to create a convenient way for people to listen to digital [...]
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