Semetric, the startup behind the Musicmetric analytics service, has released version 3 of its "music data aggregation and analysis software".
He has a Web site, artieshaw.com, on which is posted a third-person autobiographical statement so self-aggrandizing as to be endearing: "Shaw is regarded by many as the finest and most innovative of all jazz clarinetists, a leader of some of the greatest musical aggregations ever assembled, and one of the most adventurous and accomplished figures in American music".
Anthony Volodkin, founder of the Hype Machine, the music-blogging aggregation site, will be paired with Xavier Cha, a creator of performance-based art works.
These will eventually do the same to the publishing industry as the iPod did to the music industry, providing readers with aggregation, convenience, social discovery and immediacy.
iPhone Soon there may well have to be news aggregation apps to aggregate all the news from all the news aggregation apps.
MediaHub, the app that is meant to unify the suite, has a pleasing and easy interface for aggregation of photos, video and music, and supports playback of just about any type of file you can throw at it.
Paul Lamere, director of developer platform at the Echo Nest, compiled the map using a complex aggregation of data from online music listeners, combined with lots of math.
The musical quality of the music stimuli was tested similarly (0 = noise, not music; 100 = the original nonmodulated violin music).
But if you factor in the music business, which generally commands higher margins than the content aggregation business, and Hurray!s strategy of increasing its distribution channels beyond just those of the wireless carriers, the upside here should be compelling.
