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Spooonful: Hand Delivered and Easy to Swallow Music Discovery

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on September 18, 2008
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Sandra
in music, startups, technology, and website
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You love discovering new music. You love social networking and social media. Everything that ends with 2.0 gets your attention. Out of sheer enthusiasm for emerging technologies and your obsession with music, you sign up for every new service you find.

When it comes to music discovery, maybe you’ve tooled around with the likes of Last.fm, Grooveshark, Fuzz, iLike, Pandora, imeem, or one of the many others out there. If so, you may have experienced a sense of disorientation, information overload, or maybe you became paralyzed by indecision. Or maybe you’re simply too busy to spend time looking for new music and you’d rather that new music could just come looking for you for once.

A nice little service called Spooonful has a solution to that problem. In their own words: “Our mission is simple. A free weekly email newsletter delivered right to your inbox introducing you to one great new artist or band at a time. You’ll get a preview of what they sound like as well as links to buy a track, a whole album, even get out to a show.” Your weekly spoonful of new music! Check it out.

MixMatchMusic: Now Open to the Public

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on September 8, 2008
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Sandra
in collaboration, culture, DIY, future of music, music, music business, startups, technology, and video
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As ACtual mentioned earlier, this morning MixMatchMusic officially launched at DEMOfall ’08. Yes. We are now live. Public beta is up and running and ready for your music!

DEMO, the “launchpad for emerging technology”, is a big deal for those of us who reside in StartUpVille and we are excited to be among those represented at an event of this caliber. Video from all the presentations will be available here. Also, check out some of the initial photos on Flickr.

For those of you who are not totally dialed in to the MixMatch magic yet, check out the press release and see our About MixMatchMusic video:

You can also find this video, as well as the separate chapters of it, on MySpace, on the site, and on Facebook. Feel free to spread the word to anyone and everyone who loves emerging technology, music, and social media, and wants to help DIY and indie musicians to revolutionize the music industry.

Check out what people are saying over at CNET and Wired. You can also go to our Press Room for recent coverage.

Thanks to everyone for their enthusiasm and support. We are elated to have come this far and can’t wait to see what the future brings. For all you musicians out there, roll up your sleeves, get out your instruments, start recording and show us what you got! Non-musicians, come explore the community, discover great new music, and even make music (without knowing how to play an instrument).

A big thanks also to all our ambassadors and evangelists who spread the MixMatch love like it’s nobody’s business. Join the social music movement and help us get the word out to the people who need these tools by digging, posting, twittering, bookmarking, linking, emailing, texting or whatever your preferred social media methods are. Or for the more old fashioned among you carrier pigeons, smoke signals, bat signals, handwritten letters and what not.

The industry revolution starts now. Brace yourselves.

MixMatchMusic Launches at Demo!

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on September 8, 2008
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ACtual
in collaboration, culture, future of music, genres, music, music business, startups, technology, web 2.0, and website
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That’s right folks, the industry revolution we’ve been hinting at here for months has arrived and launched at the start-up mecca, DEMOfall08. While we’re sure to have more detailed posts from MMM leaders Gavroche and others over the next few days, take a look at what CNET is saying now about this new and exciting music collaboration site.

MixMatchMusic to Launch at DEMOfall '08

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on August 13, 2008
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Alan Khalfin
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MixMatchMusic is excited to announce that we have been selected to reveal our groundbreaking music service at DEMOfall 08, the premier, unparalleled event that showcases the latest, best technologies – those that promise to literally reshape our future and enrich our lives. This is a big achievement for MMM, and will be an excellent way to launch our Public Beta!

Through the $600 registration discount we’re offering you, we invite you to join us at DEMOfall 08 to see, touch, and hear about our incredible breakthrough – before anyone else does. Take advantage of this special deal, and register today for only $2,395.

MixMatchMusic at SXSW? We need your help!

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on August 12, 2008
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Alan Khalfin
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Recently, MixMatchMusic submitted a couple of discussion topics to South by Southwest (SXSW) organizers for its 2009 Interactive Festival agenda. SXSW is currently planning to have about 150 sessions at next year’s event. At least 100 of these sessions will come from the ideas submitted via the Panel Picker and what people vote through for next year’s agenda.

Here’s what you can do. Click here; take one minute to register and submit your feedback and rating on MixMatchMusic’s discussion ideas by 11:59pm on Friday, August 29, 2008.

The MixMatchMusic panel topics are captured under the header “New Technology/Next Generation.” Here are the panel titles and the description you’ll see when you click on the submission idea.

Mix & Match: A New Model for Engaging Fans

Description: The $18 billion dollar music industry includes a relative handful of famous acts and tens of millions of independent and semi-professional artists, many of whom would like to collaborate with each other and are on the lookout for an innovative new way to cultivate and engage with a solid base of music enthusiasts. This panel discussion would address the intersection of music, technology and social media and the tools that musicians want and need to collaborate with other artists, engage fans and ultimately create great new music.

A New Model for Artists’ Collaboration Online

Description: What exactly is a collaborative music environment? This proposed panel discussion will specifically address the rights scheme needed to support a collaborative environment online. Panelists would riff on a system of rights and legal protections that will help to ensure that musicians can profit online from their art.

Thanks for your help and we look forward to seeing you in Austin at SXSW 2009!