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Pandora Launches Live Concert Video Series

tech — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:31:03 +0000

Pandora, the leading personalized radio service, today announced an online extension of the free, live concert series that the company debuted earlier in the month. The Pandora live concert series hub, currently sponsored by Budweiser, can be accessed at: Pandora.

The live concert series launched in Portland, Ore. on December 13 with Dawes, an emerging rock band from Southern California. As the official launch sponsor, Budweiser presented the inaugural concert free of charge to more than 230 fans, and is now bringing the experience online via the dedicated hub.

All artists that participate in Pandora’s live concert series will be showcased on the hub. The hub currently consists of behind-the-scenes video content from the Dawes concert, including: interviews with the band and fans, the band as they tour Portland, Pandora Founder Tim Westergren interacting with the band and highlights from the evening. The hub also features a curated mixtape with up to 100 songs selected by the band and Pandora music analysts.

Senior Vice President of Strategic Solutions Heidi Browning said, “We’re very excited to have Budweiser as our official launch partner of Pandora’s personalized, live concert series. Through this partnership we’re able to give fans a great experience both online and offline. Our collaboration is proof that Pandora is a valuable platform for connecting brands, bands, and fans.”

“Music is a universal passion that unites people, and Budweiser’s ties to music run deep,” said Rob McCarthy, vice president of Budweiser. “We’re excited to assist Pandora in bringing this unique concert series to life, and to connect their local listeners with bands they love.“

Pandora determines the right mix of artists and locations for the live concert series from a unique collection of spin and thumbs-up data. True to Pandora’s philosophy of personalization, listeners who have created stations and thumbed-up songs for a specific artist or similar artists are invited to attend these exclusive free shows. Pandora listeners can look forward to more of these types of concerts in different cities across the country in 2012.

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Pete Townshend calls Apple ‘a vampire’

tech — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 01:51:55 +0000

The Who guitarist Pete Townshend has urged Apple’s iTunes to use its power to help new bands instead of “bleeding” artists like a “digital vampire”.

He also argued against unauthorized file-sharing, saying the internet was “destroying copyright as we know it . . . . The word ‘sharing’ surely means giving away something you have earned, or made, or paid for?” and added that people who downloaded his music without paying for it “may as well come and steal my son’s bike while they’re at it . . . If someone “pretends that something I have created should be available to them free… I wonder what has gone wrong with human morality and social justice”.

“Is there really any good reason why, just because iTunes exists in the wild west internet land of Facebook and Twitter, it can’t provide some aspect of these services to the artists whose work it bleeds like a digital vampire, like a digital Northern Rock, for its enormous commission?” he asked. He contiuned on to say Apple should employ 20 talent scouts “from the dying record business” to give guidance to new acts and provide financial and marketing support to the best ones.

The reality, without Steve Jobs, Apple is becoming nothing more than a retail franchise. Apple spent $614 million on retail stores and the other $4 billion on other capital expenditures — including purchasing land for its new office in Cupertino, Calif. Apple is filthy rich; it sold four million phones in three days. But Apple why is spending only 2.2% of revenue on Research and Development (R&D)? Because it is not a creative company and nothing more than a legal Peer to Peer company. (read more . . .)

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Web Pick: How to Make A Nuclear Reactor

tech — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:38:45 +0000

How to make a nuclear reactor using materials that you have at home. From “The Nuclear Boy Scout” Copyright Eagle & Eagle Ltd

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iTunes App Pick: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore ($4.99)

tech — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 17:49:08 +0000

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore - Movie Short

Inspired, in equal measures, by Hurricane Katrina, Buster Keaton, The Wizard of Oz, and a love for books, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is a poignant, humorous allegory about the curative powers of story.

Using a variety of techniques (miniatures, computer animation, 2D animation) award winning author/ illustrator William Joyce and Co-director Brandon Oldenburg present a hybrid style of animation that harkens back to silent films and MGM Technicolor musicals. Morris Lessmore is old fashioned and cutting edge at the same time.

Price: $1.99

Directed by: William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
Writer: William Joyce
Produced by: Iddo Lampton Enochs Jr., Trish Farnsworth-Smith and Alissa M. Kantrow
Original Music by: John Hunter

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore - iPhone & iPad App

Price: $4.99

From the moment you open Moonbot Studios’ The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, it will be clear you are looking at something very special… a product of a thoughtful, creative team of people dreaming big about the possibilities for children’s literature in the age of the tablet.

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Web Based App Pick: Tune Find

tech — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 06:31:14 +0000

You are watching your favorite show, say Scrubs, Grey’s Anatomy or CSI: Miami, and playing in the background is a great song. You think you know the artist, but maybe not. You try searching the internet, but get lost. Enter TuneFind.

TuneFind helps you find music from your favorite TV shows and all content is submitted and validated by TuneFind users.

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