New Myspace Review
Myspace has suffered in its position as the 'punch line' to any Social Media humour. Destroyed by News Corporation, then rendered further into obsolescence by a minor reboot and a subpar software integration into TVs. That is until a certain popstar/star in a movie about Facebook took interest, both financially and mentally. The result is what you see, a complete overhaul.
Has this proverbial phoenix risen from the ashes, or have we fallen for good looks with no form and function?
Rdio Redesigned To Compete With Spotify
Rdio has took to the stage at South by Southwest to announce an update to their website and desktop apps. The new look features revamped sharing options to compete with Spotify's robust community features and a remade interface.
Editorial: Spotify, not everything needs an app platform
Your phone has an app store, your computer has an app store, your web browser has an app store, your music streaming app (which you found in an app store) has an app store. I don't know where you would define 'the line' to be here; but I feel it has been crossed.
Editorial: Spotify is not winning with Facebook Open Graph
So Facebook released it's first batch of early results for the Open Graph integration into social music apps. While the numbers maybe positive (I pick on Spotify because they are absolutely crushing the competition in terms of numbers, probably because users are forced to login with Facebook), this is merely a quantitative result, whereas more qualitative data (meaning my opinion) would beg to differ.