A screenshot of Sony's Music Unlimited Service
Tabs in the cloud!
Apple’s ballyhooed Ping service wasn’t the cloud-based revolution everybody was expecting (Apple Math 101: Social > Cloud), and it also wasn’t the only music service to debut this week. Sony launched a cloud-based service called Music Unlimited, which will allow users to access music through their TVs, PS3s, PCs, and Blu-ray players. Amazingly, you can’t access it via any mobile devices yet.
We’re pretty unabashedly excited about The Social Network, the movie about Facebook and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg. But in a weird way, we’re even more excited about a movie currently being made by, for, and about the founders of the Pirate Bay. We’re also not alone in this regard; it took the film’s producers just three days to raise the $25,000 they needed to finish off production via Kickstarter.
Music submissions for G-Technology’s Driven Creativity Competition will be accepted through the end of this month. Winners will get €5,000 toward their next project or a 4TB (!!) storage drive, so that they can store a lifetime’s worth of porn artistic output. Check out your competition here.
The 2010 CMJ panel lineup was announced yesterday, and even though they don’t have them grouped into a schedule yet, it’s good to see that all the right bases – licensing, analytics, growing a live presence in a new market, labels that are succeeding, to name just a few – are being covered.
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