Comments on: The Vultures Are Circling Project Playlist

By: توبيكات

توبيكات — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:18:33 +0000

it will be kinda like using the old amfm radio receiver but this online radio is on steroids and has a brain.

By: Project Playlist Fills CEO Void With MTV Co-Founder John Sykes « AEBC Internet Corp

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:10:32 +0000

[...] numbers late last year, Playlist saw its traffic plummet after its embeddable playlists were removed from both MySpace and Facebook, which were threatened with lawsuits by the major music labels. [...]

By: Project Playlist Fills CEO Void With MTV Co-Founder John Sykes

Project Playlist Fills CEO Void With MTV Co-Founder John Sykes — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:53:32 +0000

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Techeroid » Hiring Of New MySpace CEO Settles Many Old Scores — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:31:26 +0000

[...] Perhaps there are unknown facts that mitigate the situation, but it doesn’t look good. As bad as Playlist’s business looks right now, the CEO has an obligation to investors and employees to see it through to the end and [...]

By: Trade Jim News » Hiring Of New MySpace CEO Settles Many Old Scores

Trade Jim News » Hiring Of New MySpace CEO Settles Many Old Scores — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:45:14 +0000

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Hiring Of New MySpace CEO Settles Many Old Scores — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:09:39 +0000

By: Streaming Music Services: Is the death of the frog a case of contagious disease? « Mobile, Music, Marketing, Social Media

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:48:46 +0000

[...] Owen Van Natta was appointed CEO and the cpmany got another round of funding. But then came the label ban to Playlist widgets from MySpace and Facebook, two main drivers of traffic for [...]

By: Streaming Music Services: Is the death of the frog a case of contagious disease? « Antonella

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:17:31 +0000

[...] a disastrous start of the year, when its widgets got banned by MySpace and Facebook, this week Playlist announces a deal with [...]

By: The Far Edge » Blog Archive » EMI Drops Lawsuit Against Project Playlist, Licenses Catalog Instead

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:56:36 +0000

[...] If Project Playlist CEO Owen Van Natta can get them to license their catalogs as well, maybe the vultures circling the company will go away. The service is currently banned on both Facebook and MySpace. Getting the other two [...]

By: EMI Drops Lawsuit Against Project Playlist, Licenses Catalog Instead

EMI Drops Lawsuit Against Project Playlist, Licenses Catalog Instead — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:50:11 +0000

By: Wes

Wes — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:10:59 +0000

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By: Philip

Philip — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:04:23 +0000

YouTube’s terms of service doesn’t allow someone to strip out the music (or audio) from a video to power another app. So the comment above from Mixaloo is seriously flawed. Furthermore, the ability to play YT videos (or in this case, the audio channel only) on a third party web site is controlled by the record labels through the YT embed functionality. If they switch that off, Mixaloo will go down with it. Rob’s comment is on the money (”I’m dismayed to see poorly considered approaches continually revamped or repeated.”). I recommend 8tracks as a playlist instead: 100% legitimate (= here to stay!), clever, and much better UI and experience.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:14:23 +0000

We have been allowing project playlist users (and users of other major music networks) to create a magazine around their music playlists for a while. You just enter your username at http://www.idiomag.com/

By: Yarin Hochman

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 09:53:42 +0000

I love P.Playlist use it all the time as my primary source of online music, I’d hate to see them go away

By: David Porter

David Porter — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 09:00:33 +0000

True, but a lawsuit and a pretty clearly infringing model leaves you with a poor BATNA.

By: EvilBillCosby

EvilBillCosby — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 06:06:53 +0000

Interesting comment.

By: Martha Focker

Martha Focker — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 05:56:38 +0000

If YouTube doesn’t infringe, then neither does Playlist. Its the exact same legal argument. However, when you are MySpace with your own music “solution”, its easy to ignore this fact and try to save a failed venture by shutting down a superior service.

By: Oo.. the Nigerian guy.

Oo.. the Nigerian guy. — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 04:14:53 +0000

Mike,

I just don’t understand this copyright issues. They seem more political and business strategic than legal. EVERY song you can think of is on YouTube (videos too!) why are they immune to all these? I guess the playlist guys have to think fast.

By: Mixaloo

Mixaloo — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 03:36:55 +0000

Mixaloo pulls in youtube content, no infringement issues.

By: Thomas Editson

Thomas Editson — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 02:39:08 +0000

You can’t spam a masterpiece!!
Inventor guy-

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 02:36:31 +0000

Yes thats the model. No one will negotiate with you if you have no leverage.

By: silicon valley dropout

silicon valley dropout — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 01:56:58 +0000

so the moral of the story is to build your platform first with infringe content then get the users then get the deals later.

By: Tim Rollins

Tim Rollins — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 01:44:23 +0000

Project playlist sounds great, and it’s fantastic to create a playlist of your favorite music. But, if you want to discover more music, not just music, but movies, tv shows, books and videos, then check out this new startup Cruxle (http://www.cruxle.com). It recommends you across categories — that is if you like Radiohead, then you will find Movies, Books, TV Shows and Videos that you might like.

The interesting thing is they derive recommendations by mining conversations that happen in Social networks like MySpace. So you can find like-minded MySpace people in Cruxle. Pretty neat and interesting concept. Check it out, you wouldn’t regret.

By: tester

tester — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 01:40:01 +0000

Is VideoEgg going out of business too?

By: ArtistLocator.com

ArtistLocator.com — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 01:35:16 +0000

i attended the Plugandplay expo early this year and playlist was the winner.

in the short term all music will become free.

it will be kinda like using the old amfm radio receiver but this online radio is on steroids and has a brain.

PlayLocator – music matters