Rdio has been signing a great deal of partnerships of late as they are trying to keep up and push ahead of competitors Spotify and MOG. Here is the latest television advertising that features Rdio (just in time for the Christmas period). The tv ad was published by Walmart in conjunction with Samsung.
More than 2.5 million Muslims travel to the annual Islamic ritual of the Hajj on November 5, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Google has decided to allow people to watch the pilgrimage live on YouTube.
The stream will be live on Saturday, November 5 at http://www.youtube.com/hajjlive.
The Hajj represents one of the five pillars of Islam; each muslim is expected to make the pilgrimage once in their lifetime. It will be interesting to see if they do the same for the other 5.
There are quite a few fun and useful (and even free!) time management apps (web-based, desktop and mobile). It’s really hard to surprise anyone with a sleek to-do list utility nowadays. However new and exciting tools still pop up once in a while.
One of such promising new tools is “MoreDays” which is still in invitation-based beta. (Getting an invite is easy and quick. Just be sure to check your spam box after you apply. Mine got there and I had been waiting for three days before it occurred to me to check it).
The best feature about the app is that it encourages you to use your photos to create tasks, events and contacts.
This is really brilliant: Taking a photo takes a second nowadays. Most of us have decent photo cameras always on hand and we can quickly take photos of anything. So why not use these photos to better manage your time?
The interface is very appealing: To add a task you need to create a title and submit a photo:
Obviously, you can set up (recurring) reminders, add notes and addresses and add as many other details as you need.
Each of your daily tasks and events is thus turned into a collection of memories of what you have been doing, whom you should have met and what were your daily experiences:
It’s like a digital photo album on steroids: it can alert you of new upcoming events and never let you forget about important meetings by creating sticky photo-enhanced visualizations.
While I loved the photo-support feature most of all, there were other great options I liked in the tool:
Moredays is getting very positive reviews from the press, so let’s hope the app will stick and get developed. So far the team has done a great job; let’s wait for the upcoming features to be introduced!
Sonia Tracy is the content editor for PsPrint and editor of PsPrint Printing and Design Blog. PsPrint is an online printing company, which you can follow on Twitter
A long time ago we reported about quick ways to watch movies online but without having to download any software. I thought it was about time we gave you an update!
10StarMovies is the best solution for movies at the moment. 10StarMovies allows users to search for the movie they want to watch and then it provides the user with a huge range of movie website option. Simply select where you want to watch this movie from and it starts to stream. It even provides an ability to see what percentage of people actually said the stream worked fine.
Is music an important part of your life? Do you love listening to music while working or discovering new music bands and artists?
YouTube has a huge database of music clips of all imaginable genres and types. It’s a great source of inspiration – we just need more tools to enjoy it.
The following two tools will add a lot of fun to your YouTube music-listening experience: they will let you endlessly listen to your favorite music genres.
Zebralizer is YouTube-powered online tool that will play your music as long as you want it to. It won’t work on Internet Explorer, nor will it work on FireFox if you are on Mac. Google Chrome has been the best option to use the tool so far.
The site has a fun search option that will suggest to you results while you are typing:
Once the results are loaded, music will start playing immediately.
While listening, you can browse through the search results to add any clip to the play list. There’s also a “radio” button that will instantly create a play list from the similar music clips to the one currently running.
You can even load the lyrics next to the current song and start singing:
The built-in player controls let you play the music louder, jump to the next track, watch the video in the full-screen mode and shuffle your current play list.
Jukesy is a fun, yet not widely-known web-based app that allows you to enjoy an endless sit-back-and-listen YouTube experience.
To select the genre, you can browse through the vast selection of popular tags (anything from “art rock” to “hip hop” can be found there) or use the search option.
Once the genre is chosen, you can enjoy an endless video and music stream: Just keep the tab open and keep working or browsing the web – the music of your preferred genre will play until you stop it.
The built-in player controls let you easily adjust the volume, toggle the full-screen view or repeat your favorite song.
That’s a great music discovery tool: With its vast search capabilities, you are most likely to come across a new song or band that will become your favorite one. Besides, the tool offers plenty of information about genres and bands (powered by Last.fm).
You can continue searching for music, while the current clip keeps playing. You can add a new clip to the play list or queue video clips right from the search results (without interrupting your current music stream).
If you create an account, you can save your play lists as well.
Are there any other tools for the similar lean-back music experience? Please share them in the comments!
Jennifer Moline writes for the PsPrint Blog. PsPrint is an online commercial printing company.
It seems like there are a lot of things happening over at The Huffington Post. The Huffington Post has announced that they now receive over 1 billion page views every month.
Here is a great article over at AllThingsD that runs through The Huffington Post and their plans for the future.
Daniel Ek (Spotify CEO) took the stage at the F8 Facebook conference yesterday and announced that Spotify has adopted the Facebook Open Graph.
p.s. Facebook Music was a joke and never existed. Most of the top tech blogs really need to check their sources.
Vimeo has just launched their on Music licensing stores, which makes it a lot easier for creators to download music for their videos.
It is a very big day for Pandora as they are launching the new version of their site.
Some of our new features include:
Simplified Station Creation – Enhanced auto-complete choices and personalized suggestions make creating new stations and discovering new music or comedy more intuitive and personal.
Discovery of Music with Friends – Enhanced listener profiles and a new music feed offer a centralized place to find, like and comment on what friends and like-minded listeners are discovering and enjoying on Pandora. The music feed will roll out slowly over the course of the coming days. In addition to the prominent new “share” button, stations now have their own URLs, making it super easy for listeners to share favorite stations via Twitter, Facebook, or email.
Improved Control – Prominent and ubiquitous access to familiar player control buttons including Play, Pause, Thumbs-Up and Thumbs-Down icons helps listeners to easily personalize their music and comedy stations. A new shuffle feature also allows listeners to shuffle any collection of stations to add variety to their listening experience.
Enhanced Artist Information – An option to learn more about the music, find lyrics, read artists’ biographies and expand the album art size.
Unlimited listening – We’ve removed the 40 hours listening cap – you can now listen as much as you want for free.
via – Pandora
We have just noticed that Larry Page (Google, CEO) hasnt even made an effort to post on his Google Plus profile for over a month. No wonder everyone else has left Google Plus!
