Crenk » music communities http://crenk.com Web Apps, Mobile Apps and Reviews Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:40:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Twones The Music Lifestream Aggregation Service. Friendfeed But Only For Music Sites http://crenk.com/twones-the-music-lifestream-aggregation-service-friendfeed-but-only-for-music-sites/ http://crenk.com/twones-the-music-lifestream-aggregation-service-friendfeed-but-only-for-music-sites/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:16:24 +0000 Steven Finch http://crenk.com/?p=1423 Today, Amsterdam based Twones launches in private beta. Twones is a new Music service that tracks the music you’re playing on your computer (iTunes, WMP, Winamp) AND on 18 web services (Youtube, Last.fm, Myspace, Muxtape etc.).

Twones is funded by concert giant Live Nation (source: hypebot ), with TheNextWeb having a minor stake in the company as well. Additionally, Twones shares office space with TheNextWeb.

Twones’ goal is to make playing music on the web more organized and enjoyable. “Let real people, relevant to you, collectively filter and recommend music and music services”,  says Tim Heineke who with Diederik Martens and Johannes La Poutre founded Twones. “Our goal is letting users find great music and sites and services through relevant people on cool music sites. We work together with the other services, we don’t compete.”

The only thing that Twones is missing is the music. Other than embedded YouTube videos, to actually play a song you have to click through to the original music service where it was streamed from in the first place. Twones is more about trying to capture the musical meta-data of the Web, socializing around music, and organizing it.

The service itself really needs to have the ability to play songs from within the site and create playlists. Until this happens I cant really see the service having a real reason to use it.


Twones Video Demo from Twones on Vimeo.

]]> http://crenk.com/twones-the-music-lifestream-aggregation-service-friendfeed-but-only-for-music-sites/feed/ 0 We7: The New Ad-Supported Music Destination On The Rise http://crenk.com/we7-the-new-ad-supported-music-destination-on-the-rise/ http://crenk.com/we7-the-new-ad-supported-music-destination-on-the-rise/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:41:50 +0000 Steven Finch http://crenk.com/?p=1042 We7 is one of the new kids on the block in the music industry. On We7 you can find artists from all over the world, signed and unsigned. With the majority of artists you are able to listen to the tracks on their albums, as well as add them to a play list. Additionally, tracks can be purchased via iTunes.

We7 is mainly an ad supported streaming platform, in which artists receive their royalties from a percentage of the advertising revenues and then hopefully more from purchases via iTunes. We7 keeps the other cut of the advertising revenues for providing the platform, as well as getting a percentage from iTunes affiliate sales.

We7 has a catalog that is growing rapidly and they seem to have a few majors already on board. I would like to see a better design that takes up the majority of the page on a fluid layout, instead of just the current fixed layout. This will also allow them to strategically place their advertising banners, which is their key business model. We7 however is definitely worth checking out if you are look to stream some of the best albums from the biggest artists, from anyone in the world.

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