http://musiclibre.org/blog web music and social apps Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:37:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This year we’ve seen the release of social application developer platforms from MySpace, Bebo, Hi5 and Yahoo!. Over the same period of time, the popularity of social applications on Facebook - the most mature and advanced social application platform has declined significantly. This decrease in demand for Facebook applications has ... http://musiclibre.org/blog/2008/11/05/does-anybody-actually-like-social-apps/ Woolly Mammoth is a San Francisco based electronic music artist specializing in what he calls "Lortab rock".  In his 2001 album, "funfurpants", Mammoth shows his electroacoustic roots with glitchy, downtempo tunes like Jeep and more esoteric chin strokers such as Kafka. The soothing, somewhat codeine laden Rain Again hypnotizes ... http://musiclibre.org/blog/2008/10/29/woolly-mammoth/ I recently stumbled upon some music from Terra Firma, a band from Toronto in the early 1990s.   Their "atmospheric stoner rock" sound is clearly influenced by 60's psychedelic bands like Pink Floyd, which can be heard in Together We Glide - a bit of a mashup of tripper anthems ... http://musiclibre.org/blog/2008/10/29/terra-firma/ This weekend I canvassed for Barack Obama. Prior to last Friday, I didn’t even know what this meant, but after a weekend of attending rallies, stuffing envelopes, making posters and signs, knocking on doors and talking to people in my neighbourhood – I’ve started to get a real sense ... http://musiclibre.org/blog/2008/02/04/why-i-canvas-for-barack-obama/ I recently noticed some people complaining about music blogs which link directly to mp3s hosted on other music blogs. These music bloggers have gone so far as to remove their mp3 links from their syndication feed in order to stop people linking to their mp3s. Muruch writes The more popular ... http://musiclibre.org/blog/2008/01/23/using-the-http-referer-header-to-stop-people-from-linking-to-your-mp3s/ I have devised a rough 5 point system for categorizing how mp3 bloggers are sharing their content. This is not meant to differentiate "good" vs "bad" music blogs. It just describes how people are "sharing their content". If you are knowingly not sharing your content for some ... http://musiclibre.org/blog/2008/01/18/how-to-share-your-music-blog-real-good/ The notorious German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen passed away this week.  I'm working on a Max/MSP patch and some tape loops in his honour.  Stockhausen was a God-like figure amongst music technology and electronic music composition students.  He is the grandfather of electronic music, whom we all looked up to with reference ... http://musiclibre.org/blog/2007/12/07/karlheinz-stockhausen/ When the Facebook Data Store API was released several months ago, there was some interesting analysis and general enthusiasm. I for one was pretty psyched as I felt that each time Facebook extended their API, they were creating opportunities for developers to "change the game" by taking advantage of ... http://musiclibre.org/blog/2007/12/06/facebook-datastore-api/ I went to a Facebook Developer Garage event recently in San Francisco. It was a pseudo barcamp style event thrown by RockYou and some of the biggest names in FB app dev were there, waxing economic on the state of the Facebook nation. Going to this event was ... http://musiclibre.org/blog/2007/11/26/facebook-spamming-and-really-stupid-apps/ WFMU's Beware of the Blog has put together a great page of audio mashups featuring Rudy Giuliani as himself, scaring the crap out of everyone - or at least trying to.  The last refuge of a scoundrel indeed... http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/11/rudy-giuliani-9.htmlShareThis http://musiclibre.org/blog/2007/11/26/giuliani-fear-mongering-soundtrack/