October 9th, 2012 by Darren Hemmings

This is a guest post by Jason Herskowitz (@jherskowitz) who is a core contributor to the multi-source music platform, Tomahawk, and leads Platform Development at Official.fm. It only takes a quick glance...

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September 18th, 2012 by Darren Hemmings

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Today, Amazon finally launched its Cloud Player service in the UK, France and Germany. Akin to iTunes Match, the core premise of the service is that you can upload your digital music collection into the...

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September 10th, 2012 by Darren Hemmings

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It’s been interesting reading Grizzly Bear’s thoughts on Spotify over this weekend. One comment that particularly caught my eye was this one: “Not saying that Spotify doesn’t spread...

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August 14th, 2012 by Darren Hemmings

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I’ve had a couple of very interesting discussions recently regarding advertising in general, but also with specific reference to music websites. The suggestion from some site owners is that the income...

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June 27th, 2012 by Darren Hemmings

Jason Herskowitz is just one of many smart minds involved in Tomahawk, a service we’ve covered before now as a fine example of music within the open web. With Spotify announcing their new deal with...

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June 14th, 2012 by Darren Hemmings

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Yesterday TheNextWeb reported that Facebook is rolling out a new “Share Music” button to your status update box which, when clicked, would allow you to share any song you like to your friends....

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June 8th, 2012 by Darren Hemmings

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For the last few weeks I’ve been using Rdio and of late something has become clear: I am now using it far, far more than Spotify, to which I am also a Premium Subscriber. Why? Because as a user experience,...

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April 26th, 2012 by Darren Hemmings

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I was using Facebook earlier and realised something I’m not sure has been widely mentioned before now. As well as adding a “Listen” button to Fan Pages, Facebook further extends this...

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April 18th, 2012 by Darren Hemmings

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Today Spotify announced that it was to launch branded apps in conjunction with Coca-Cola, Reebok, McDonald’s, Intel and AT&T. So, I thought I’d gauge intial response from my followers...

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