January202009
The seven hottest startups of MidemNet 2009 »
Stuart / Music Ally:
1. Catch Media - They want to ditch all the acronyms - MP3, WMA, AAC etc - and just let people listen to music, he says. So Play Anywhere comprises technology, licensing, a clearing house structure and a business model, all in one.
2. Passionato - It’s a “site for people who love Classical and Jazz”.
3. SoundCloud - SoundCloud is about making it easier for people to share music - but in the legal industry sense - labels, artists, producers and media who need to send large files to one another.
4. The Echo Nest - They’ve built a “music intelligence” platform, and he’s talking about one of the applications making use of it: Promobot. The Echo Nest tracks blog posts and other online data - “there are thousands of writers out there on the web, but no way to sort them and find the ones who care about your sorts of music,”
5. MPTrax - They’re launching “the world’s first user generated viral booking utility” - it’s launching today in fact. So it’s about getting a band’s gigging calendar into the hands of anyone who might want to book them - including private parties, venues and so on.
6. Instinctiv - They’re offering personalisation technology to help consumers navigate their large libraries of music better - something that’s increasingly relevant in the age of unlimited music services, which can be frankly daunting in the depth of available songs.
7. Mustick - a device created by an industrial design student at the Eindhoven University of Technology.
