Comments on: Is Pownce Developing A MP3 Player?

By: TechCrunch en français » Blip, le Twitter pour la Musique

TechCrunch en français » Blip, le Twitter pour la Musique — Tue, 13 May 2008 04:11:17 +0000

[...] Twitter est une technologie au point pour diffuser des idées mais pas idéal pour partager du contenu média; vous souhaitez partager une vidéo?, il vous faudra un TinyURL vers YouTube ou vers Seesmic. Pownce lui tente de faciliter le transfert de fichiers et envisage même prochainement un lecteur musique. [...]

By: Twitter for Music

Twitter for Music — Tue, 13 May 2008 00:14:22 +0000

[...] Pownce improves on the Twitter model by supporting file transfers and at least one new data type: the structured event. It also appears to be evolving into a better system for trading music, possibly with a full-featured music player. [...]

By: MikeonTV

MikeonTV — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:50:24 +0000

Maybe this will pursued Muxtape to release a search option! (and recognize the download Greasemonkey scripts)

By: Malcolm Bastien

Malcolm Bastien — Sun, 11 May 2008 22:51:11 +0000

Pownce has always been a service that I’ve just never really had the incentive to start using regularly. Maybe this will stir up some interest again.

Look forward to what they develop.

By: links for 2008-05-11 « Breyten’s Dev Blog

links for 2008-05-11 « Breyten’s Dev Blog — Sun, 11 May 2008 11:32:00 +0000

[...] Is Pownce Developing A MP3 Player? (tags: company & product profiles pownce) [...]

By: a

Sun, 11 May 2008 11:00:35 +0000

Pownce == Fail
http://siteanalytics.compete.c.....?metric=uv

By: phenom

phenom — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:06:23 +0000

Wonderful as Muxtape is, it is also completely illegal and will probably fade away once it becomes too popular.

By: Passing By

Passing By — Sat, 10 May 2008 14:52:00 +0000

none of them have licenses with all the labels, but if you want to be popular you need music from big record labels, and if you want big record labels to talk to you then you have to grab their attention. So letting millions of users share their music illegally generally works for grabbing attention, then you have to convince them that they can make a deal and that you can pay for it.

So muxtape as we know it is doomed, it’s wonderfully simple design is nice but that doesn’t have any room for monetization - don’t believe justin’s story about amazon affiliates, imeem makes plenty of money from affiliate income and it still needs advertising. To go legal muxtape will have to add filtering so that you can’t upload beatles tracks. No doubt Sony will attempt to push Gracenote’s identification technology on them.

Mybloop is a new entrant, looks like a more general file store, but having all those different rules for music won’t help its legal standing at all. If they get popular then the record business will ask for changes, and vast sums of money.

Just watch what happens to projectplaylist over the next few months. Or better still look at how imeem changed in the last year, I’m sure that we’ll see this happen again and again.

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 10 May 2008 12:12:55 +0000

How are these services avoiding legal trouble? I know imeem has an arrangement with the record companies but what about the others?

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 10 May 2008 05:24:25 +0000

I hope muxtape causes a new trend in web design. It should.

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » PwnceがMP3プレイヤーを開発中？

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » PwnceがMP3プレイヤーを開発中？ — Sat, 10 May 2008 05:19:53 +0000

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By: Passing By

Passing By — Sat, 10 May 2008 03:08:41 +0000

The funny thing is, when pownce originally launched its client I couldn’t help but notice the similarities to the original imeem social IM and filesharing client, which had of course failed abysmally leading imeem to it’s current ‘youtube for music’ incarnation.

So, is pownce taking another step in its evolution from imeem’s history?

By: Cortland Coleman

Cortland Coleman — Sat, 10 May 2008 02:46:25 +0000

During the height of twitter’s down-time, I was hoping there would be a mass jump to Pownce. That didn’t happen and, in my opinion, the service has languished. The pending music/media player could be a useful, fun development for Pownce, but unless everyone leaps over there, or we can truly port our profile data in and out of it and other services, I’m not sure this is the remedy for Pownce.

Certainly there are others who feel Pownce isn’t even ill.

By: fernando

fernando — Sat, 10 May 2008 02:00:16 +0000

@tyler: Thanks for this “easter egg” tip!! I follow Tuneage on tumblr and this serves as a great tool to access those hidden gems.

By: Bernardo Rodriguez

Bernardo Rodriguez — Sat, 10 May 2008 00:35:00 +0000

Feeds and messages are a great way to discover and share music. The key is to optimize them to make them relevant. If we take twittering of music further, radio stations can be built in real-time by a bunch of people posting songs, and filtering should build the stream that you might like the most. We are building TWIT.FM with that focus.

By: Adrien F.

Adrien F. — Sat, 10 May 2008 00:31:56 +0000

@Mark: I got mixed up. In french, “article” can be used to define a product or an item. Anyway, after looking deeper into it, it seems the ending is “ylist”, so my theory doesn’t stand anymore.

By: Warren L.

Warren L. — Sat, 10 May 2008 00:15:47 +0000

I wish Pownce would fix its spam issue first. I get a whole lot of invites now from ‘HomeBased Business’, etc.

By: Mark Hendrickson

Mark Hendrickson — Sat, 10 May 2008 00:11:20 +0000

@Adrien - interesting counter theory, but why would you have articles in a wishlist?

By: John

John — Sat, 10 May 2008 00:08:17 +0000

Wonderful as Muxtape is, it is also completely illegal and will probably fade away once it becomes too popular. Th founders seem to be making some money through Amazon referrals (in addition to coming into posession of huge library of music) but I think it would be very hard to continue this for long.

By: Ryan Merket

Ryan Merket — Sat, 10 May 2008 00:06:08 +0000

ryanmerket.muxtape.com

that’s all i got.

By: Renee

Renee — Sat, 10 May 2008 00:01:54 +0000

The Pownce founders have spent the last 2 weeks announcing their newest Muxtapes on Twitter. Might they have a deal to work with Muxtape directly? I doubt they’d work so hard promoting a site they intend to conquor.

By: Tyler Willis

Tyler Willis — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:55:07 +0000

Tumblr actually has something pretty similar, and this would be an interesting tactic for pownce.

To see Tumblr’s (very alpha) feature called “Sound Box” goto the dashboard and type listen on your keyboard. The dashboard will move down by about 60 pixels and you’ll see a link to “launch the sound box”

Although I agree with Adrien, while it is likely Pownce will head in that direction there is nothing conclusive about that screenshot.

By: Will J

Will J — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:47:31 +0000

My guess is that the empty yellow bar is where track information will show up, a la iTunes. If they stick to the iTunes design, the control buttons would be off to the left.

By: Adrien F.

Adrien F. — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:45:16 +0000

I think there is a bias here: some would like those features so they take anything as a hint.

For what matters, it could be the “Wishlist 1″, containing several “Articles”…

By: Gubatron

Gubatron — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:32:14 +0000

We allow you to post all your mp3 collection, and we allow you to embed mp3s and playlists.

No storage limits, totally free
http://www.mybloop.com

You can actually use it for work too. Not micro-time-wasting