YourSpins.com is a new kind of music community powered by Digimpro technology.<br /> <br /> The YourSpins network will allow users and members to instantly remix tracks that are specifically provided for that purpose by participating artists, producers and record labels.
An executive from social-music site Imeem told CNET News just days ago that the company would not be going through a round of layoffs.
Well, not quite.
Imeem's vice president of marketing, Matt Graves, said the question was actually "whether we had done layoffs, not whether we were going to," and that he answered accordingly. Sneaky! He proceeded to confirm a report from PaidContent that a quarter of the company has been laid off.
"There's not as much money floating around the market, and we had to cut our costs to accommodate," Graves said. He added that the layoffs are companywide--"finance, marketing, communications, product, technical operations"--clarifying the PaidContent assertion that the layoffs had been primarily "on the technical back-end side."
He would not comment on the other half of PaidContent's report--that Imeem is planning to shop itself to prospective buyers. PaidContent's Rafat Ali added that Imeem's projected valuation is more than $200 million, a figure that many media and technology companies might not be willing to fork over at this point.
Imeem has taken venture funding from Sequoia Capital, a firm that has advocated extreme caution and frugality amid financial panic. Another Sequoia-backed company, Jive Software, cut a third of its employees within days of the now-famous letter from the venture firm to its portfolio CEOs.
Alpha web service Lib.rario.us is del.icio.us for your media collection.<br /> <br /> Bookmark, review, tag and share your books, music, DVD's and games with automatically-supplied cover images and links to Amazon. RSS feeds are available by user and media type, and it looks like an item discussion feature is in the works. Lib.rario.us is much prettier than del.icio.us, but my only wish for it and the rest of the tagging/Web 2.0 world? Drop the domains with w.ithdot.sinwe.ird places. At first it was cute, but now it's just maddening.
suggest similar or related music (mainly bands), movies (titles mostly, some directors and actors) and books, recommendations you might be interested in if you like what you tell me that you like :P Simply put, I can help you explore your taste
Listen to your iTunes library from any web browser using Anywhere.FM, a slick webapp that hosts and streams your music with its web-based player. The Anywhere.FM beta is almost too good to be true right now, with free unlimited uploads and listens (but the service may charge in the future). Download a free Anywhere.FM iTunes uploader application that will detect your library and upload all your songs to Anywhere.FM for you.
At music-based social network Grooveshark you can search a music database and listen to streaming audio from thousands of artists. Additionally, you can can embed songs you find on Grooveshark into web sites and social networking profiles, and share them with friends via email and instant messages. Here's a Grooveshark embedded tune:
Signing up for an account activates additional features like saved playlists, music suggestions, and access to the social functions of Grooveshark, like browsing the playlists of people who share your musical tastes. Thanks Toribor!