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""Serendip collects all music related posts publicly shared on Facebook and Twitter and indexes them along with the people who shared them.  Serendip essentially turns every user on Facebook and Twitter that actively shares music into a DJ.  More than 25 million DJs are currently registered in the Serendip databases, and Serendip users can easily discover DJs that match their interests, follow them and enjoy a personally curated playlist based on the music they share.""

"Best Buy is also expanding its services up in the sky. Today it has launched a new music streaming offering-appropriately enough called Best Buy Music Cloud. On the surface, it sounds strikingly similar to what Apple will be offering users in its iCloud music service, but with a few differences:"

Fun new take on the music video! Kind of like Vyclone, but for music not locations.

GIG-IT, a new social game coming to Facebook in May, will let players create 3D concerts featuring virtual versions of famous musicians along with music from the game's library or music available to purchase within the experience.

Video Star for iOS facilitates the creation of homespun music videos to go along with any song on your device. To use it, you simply choose a song from your music library and start shooting. You can act along with the song, lip sync, dance, shoot video of your dog, or whatever.

Growth in online music revenue = decline in physically-packaged music

Microsoft will roll out the new music streaming service to many customers on Tuesday as part of an update to the Xbox gaming console he service will let users stream more than 30 million tracks worldwide across Microsoft's ecosystem of Windows 8 mobile devices and PCs, as well as the Xbox. Think of it as Microsoft's in-house version of Spotify.

me the musical -- pretty catchy animated musical video powered by the content on your timeline. Telling a story from the day you were born through to today, highlighting various global hits, technology feats like the start of the internet and so on, as they little characters walk down your timeline

"By early 2013, the buzz surrounding wearable technology caught the attention of The Coca-Cola Company's Strategic Marketing Ventures team, which invests in high-potential startups aligned with Coke's core business, including digital music streaming service Spotify, social fitness community Endomondo and music licensing firm Music Dealers. Fitness bands and other activity monitors motivate people to be more active -- a key priority for Coke -- by letting users set personal goals and track everything from steps taken, to calories burned, to sleep."

daily 9.7 Google talking to labels about its own itunes-like download store as well as a digital song locker

I might be late to the game here, but this is an interesting idea (and it sounds like the millenial consumer base they're looking to target is lapping it up- T-Mobile says its customers have streamed nearly 7,000 terabytes of music - and 5 million more songs per day than before the launch of Music Freedom).

"Coke's involvement in Spotify is notable, as the soda marketer has tested the platform's various ad units repeatedly, while also helping to launch the digital firm's presence in Germany and Australia. Spotify has appeared on 100 million Coke bottles in Australia during the last five months, while receiving a similar on-package treatment recently in Germany. The music upstart is now in 17 countries and goes head-to-head in the U.S. with the formidable Pandora. For its past, Coke seems to be in a music-based turf war of larger scale, battling rival Pepsi for high school and college-aged consumers. Both brands have sponsored various concert series, with Pepsi spending significant resources in the last three years at South by Southwest."

IKEA ad spots are music videos

When you walk around the festival using the arrow keys on your computer, you'll hear the music pan across your headphones; and if you walk past someone, you might hear them shouting something. If you walk past the beer tent, a virtual salesman will try to hawk you a virtual beer.

Facebook is adding social music features to chat. You can listen with a friends one on one or in a group setting. 

Music listening rooms with friends. Includes chat and uses Facebook Connect. 

Soundhound integrates within Kia and Hyundai cars (music discovery)

Yesh, music is everywhere now.