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Testing out ThingLink’s Image Tagging with Music

I finally just got around to testing out ThingLink.com, which is a cool app/plugin that allows you to add dynamic tags and information within images on the web. One of the niftiest features they’ve added to the service is an integration with Soundcloud, which allows you to directly embed a Soundcloud music player into any [...]

Ticketmaster Missing an Easy Opportunity: Make Confirmation Pages More Social

Last Friday, I bought a bunch of tickets via Ticketmaster. Check out the confirmation page for my White Denim tix: Besides being busy and looking pretty awful overall, notice what’s missing? How about a way for me to share the show to friends or add to my calendar? Considering I immediately shot a note out [...]

Latest from LMB: Live Music Archive App | An Interview with the Developers

Earlier this week, I finished a longer post about a new iphone app that streams concert recordings from the Live Music Archive and included an interview I did with the app’s developers: Music Archive App Streams Live Music Archive to Your iPhone | An Interview with the Developers A couple weeks back, a new iPhone [...]

Music from the Cloud? A Live Music Fan’s Take on the New Music Streaming Services

Over the last three to six months, I’ve been reading a ton of blogs posts and articles about various new streaming music services and how music is steadily moving to the “cloud” and away from pure ownership and downloads. Among music tech geeks, there’s a healthy debate over whether or not we will ever fully [...]

Fun with GIMP: Concert Photo Collage

I’ve been toying around with a few image-editing programs. I just downloaded/installed GIMP (aka GNU Image Manipulation Program), which seems to be the closest open-source program you can get to Photoshop. It’s very cool and quite robust. I’m a total novice with this stuff, but I think I managed to put together a decent photo [...]