| Date | Title | Description |
| 25.05.2021 | Call it a comeback: Turntable.fm raises $7.5M | Earlier this year, Turntable.fm’s founder Billy Chasen dusted off the old site and resurrected it for the pandemic age. I know I wasn’t the only one feeling a wistful pang of nostalgia for the service during the long, dull days of shelterin... |
| 24.01.2014 | Last.fm’s free radio service now pulls music from YouTube | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
CBS Interactive-owned Last.fm is testing a new ve... |
| 06.12.2013 | Get Ready For The Streaming-Music Die-Off | Streaming music gets one thing right. Services like Pandora, Rdio and Spotify are amazing for the consumer, and in that singular way, the music industry hasn’t been better in … probably ever.
At long last, we have the celestial jukebox we d... |
| 22.11.2013 | Turntable.fm Shutting Down So Company Can Focus On Turntable Live Events Platform | Today, Turntable.fm has announced that it will shut down its ‘virtual dj’ product entirely to focus on its new Turntable Live platform, which attempts to replicate the ‘being there’ experience of live performances. TechCrunch broke the news... |
| 22.11.2013 | Music service Turntable.fm is dead (but Turntable Live is not) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Turntable.fm is shutting down its virtual social ... |
| 08.10.2013 | Turntable.fm starts streaming live concerts | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Streaming music service Turntable.fm just announc... |
| 19.09.2013 | TastemakerX pivots into a music service that plays nice with Pandora, Spotify, SoundCloud, & others | Try as they might, entrepreneurs haven’t yet managed to figure out an ultra successful method for discovering, listening to, and sharing music — and it’s not for lack of effort.
Music startup TastemakerX thinks it has an explanation for why... |
| 19.09.2013 | TastemakerX pivots into a music service that plays nice with Pandora, Spotify, SoundCloud, & others | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Try as they might, entrepreneurs haven’t yet mana... |
| 10.09.2013 | Music service Piki.fm shutting down, founders to concentrate on revamped Turntable.fm | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The team behind Piki.fm, the music recommendation... |
| 10.09.2013 | Music service Piki.fm shutting down, founders to concentrate on revamped Turntable.fm | The team behind Piki.fm, the music recommendation radio service, announced today via e-mail that the service would be shutting down, a move that’s effective as of the end of September.
Piki, which was started by the same people who brought ... |
| 08.05.2013 | Piki’s new web app adds an ultrauseful music bookmarking tool for Pandora, YouTube, & Rdio | Discovering new music online is a pain, more so months after I try to pull up the songs I liked across several streaming media services. (My thought process goes as follows: Did I add that song to YouTube as a favorite? Did I just “like” th... |
| 08.05.2013 | Piki’s new web app adds an ultrauseful music bookmarking tool for Pandora, YouTube, & Rdio | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Discovering new music online is a pain, more so m... |
| 12.04.2013 | Turntable co-founder explains Piki’s ‘recipe’ for people-powered smart radio | Although it’s been a while since we heard anything from DJ-focused music service Turntable, the team has kept busy. Yesterday it debuted a new smart-radio service called Piki that offers yet another spin on music discovery.
No one has quite... |
| 12.04.2013 | Turntable co-founder explains Piki’s ‘recipe’ for people-powered smart radio | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Although it’s been a while since we heard anything from DJ-focused music service Turntable, the team has kept busy. Yesterday it debute... |
| 15.11.2012 | Turntable 2.0 and Passion Pit | The folks at Turntable aren't calling it 2.0, but it sure feels like a massive upgrade to me so that's what I call it when I talk about the new UI and big rooms concept that Turntable quietly launched yesterday without much fanfare.
Full di... |
| 14.11.2012 | Turntable.fm Moves The Concert From A Club To A Stadium | Turntable.fm, my music streaming service of choice, just updated its platform this morning. Along with a cleaner, much more sleek interface comes the ability to host huge rooms of listeners. How big? There’s no limit. Turntable.fm rooms can... |
| 04.10.2012 | Charlie O’Donnell and David Tisch Really Don’t See the Point of Pivoting [Updated] | From left to right: Mr. O’Donnell, Mr. Tisch, and Mr. Penenberg.
New York University’s premier tech club, Tech@NYU, is in the midst of its annual Startup Week. This year’s series of panels featuring familiar faces from Silicon Alley are all... |
| 28.09.2012 | Music-Sharing Startup MyStream Preps Android Launch, Looks Beyond Music | MyStream, a mobile music-sharing app that launched on iOS more than a year ago, plans to go cross-platform next week with the launch of its Android app. Founder and CEO Richard Zelson also tells me the company is working on features that go... |
| 18.09.2012 | NYC Innovation News Spans Music, Biotech, & Media | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It seems that New York innovators in every slice of the city’s tech scene have been making news this week, so we’ve rounded up some of the top items we’ve come across.
—Seth G... |
| 12.09.2012 | With $1M in funding, Turntable.fm creator launches new music startup DJZ | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Turntable.fm co-founder Seth Goldstein is turning... |
| 31.08.2012 | Feature Friday: Concierge | Eighty percent of all music listening happens in lean back mode where someone or something plays the music for you. That's a fact. I am not sure where I saw it, but I believe it to be true based on my own music listening experience.
That's ... |
| 16.08.2012 | Shawn Broderick, Now at Murfie, Says Innovation in Digital Music Is Only Beginning | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Earlier this week news broke that Xconomist Shawn Broderick (center in the photo) was leaving the virtual goods exchange startup Oomba after a few months on the job. He joined... |
| 22.06.2012 | The State of Online Music Discovery | Choosing music that someone else would like is more complex than suggesting toaster ovens or even movies. The reasons we like a song are highly subjective and can hinge on very specific, sometimes subtle characteristics. Thus music recommen... |
| 12.06.2012 | Even Spotify apps are getting funded: Soundrop raises $3M to turn music social | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Soundrop, a social app for streaming service Spot... |
| 30.05.2012 | Startup News: Let’s Launch the Summer with a New York Tech Meetup and Loads of New Features | At the Meetup. (flickr.com/alextorrenegra)
MEET ‘N GREET Monday, June 5, is this month’s New York Tech Meetup. Presenters range from Fitocracy to Loosecubes. If you haven’t bought tickets, you’ve got one more chance: There’s one batch left,... |
| 27.05.2012 | Investment Thesis @USV | Venture firms operate a bunch of different ways. Some have a geographical focus, others have a sector focus, still others have a stage focus. Union Square Ventures’ focus has evolved into what we call a “thesis” but is probably better descr... |
| 11.05.2012 | As its popularity wanes, Turntable.fm finally launches an Android app | The once ultra buzz-worthy streaming music startup Turntable.fm launched a native Android application today, just as the service fades from collective memory.
But while plenty of people have waited on an Android app for the service, I would... |
| 11.05.2012 | As its popularity wanes, Turntable.fm finally launches an Android app | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The once ultra buzz-worthy streaming music startup Turntable.fm launched a native Android application today, just as the service fades ... |
| 01.05.2012 | Why did users stop using Turntable.fm? Blame the experience | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Remember Turntable.fm? The social music discovery service saw some massive growth last year, adding 360,000 users in its first three mo... |
| 01.05.2012 | Why did users stop using Turntable.fm? Blame the experience | Remember Turntable.fm? The social music discovery service saw some massive growth last year, adding 360,000 users in its first three months and netting a $37 million valuation. It was interesting, it was original, it was the bane of product... |
| 20.04.2012 | Feature Friday: Laptop Stickers | I logged into Turntable a week or so ago and everyone on stage had laptop stickers.
I immediately started rummaging around the UI trying to figure out how to get some on my laptop. I figured it out pretty quickly and now when I get up on st... |
| 12.04.2012 | How Digital Music Innovation Will Suffer if Universal Acquires EMI | The music business, to say the least, ain’t what it used to be. To be precise, the industry has shrunk by about 50% since Napster’s heyday, and virtually nobody expects it to fully bounce back. The major labels know this and have tried just... |
| 12.04.2012 | Rep Your Favorite Startups In Turntable.fm With Stickers For Your DJ Laptop | The appeal of social music platform Turntable.fm has been its synchronous music listening in public dance rooms. Anyone can become the MC, playing the tunes and playlists of their choice, just as each listener can choose their own avatar, o... |
| 05.04.2012 | Spotify Says It’s Just Like Radiohead, Turntable.fm Says David Bowie | Yes, that’s one of the more random headlines I’ve written, but look — I wasn’t the one who said it. Executives from Spotify and Turntable.fm really did compare themselves to popular musicians, and Pandora and TastemakerX took turns, too.
Al... |
| 14.03.2012 | Startup News: While You Were Gone, It Got Warm | Columbus Circle as seen from CityMaps
WICKA WICKA. Turntable.fm is in the big leagues now as the young music based social platform signs deals with Sony BMG, Universal, EMI and Warner, TechCrunch reports. Turntable has over one million user... |
| 14.03.2012 | Turntable Gets Labels On Board, International Launches Coming Over Next Few Months | One of Turntable.fm’s earliest proponents was a music blog in Germany that helped send the music sharing game viral. However, the startup soon discovered that the licensing and rights rules abroad were more complicated than the rules at hom... |
| 14.03.2012 | Turntable.fm Signs Pacts With Four Top Music Labels | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
New York-based Turntable.fm, an online music-sharing site, has signed deals with Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, EMI Music Group, and Sony, the company announced ye... |
| 13.03.2012 | Turntable.fm locks licensing deals with all four major music labels | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Hip music startup Turntable.fm got a dose of legi... |
| 13.03.2012 | Turntable.fm locks licensing deals with all four major music labels | Hip music startup Turntable.fm got a dose of legitimacy today, with the announcement that it has signed licensing deals with the four biggest music labels: Warner, Universal, Sony, and EMI.
Turntable.fm CEO Seth Goldstein announced the deal... |
| 13.03.2012 | Licensed To Spin: Turntable.fm Inks Deals With The Big Four | From the outset, the biggest appeal of social music platform Turntable.fm has been its synchronous listening in public rooms where anyone can become the dee-jay. Of course, turn back the clock six months, and Turntable probably didn’t see F... |
| 07.03.2012 | Startup News: Have Fun in ATX—Love, NYC | Hook 'em! | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Wikipedia)
HILL COUNTRY. Made in NY: Austin will celebrate New York based tech startups at South by Southwest on March 11 from 6 p.m. to 12 a.m. at the Fast Company Grill at Cedar Door in the Texa... |
| 21.02.2012 | Turntable's Billy Chasen: Starting over with $400,000 | Raising money went from rejection, craziness to a lot easier...
I hear so many start-ups unwilling to make a drastic change to their operations, even if they're running out of money. They seem so hell bent on making their original idea succ... |
| 17.01.2012 | Turntable For Video ‘Chill’ Turns Into Pinterest For Video, Sees 10 Sign Ups A Minute | Chill, a startup that started out Namesake and then morphed into a virtual environment for video watching, has performed the mother of all pivots (again) today, going from a Turntable for video to a Pinterest for video, allowing users to po... |
| 12.01.2012 | Why Facebook’s “Listen With Friends” feature isn’t a threat to Turntable | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Ruh-roh! Did Facebook just sideswipe up-and-comin... |
| 12.01.2012 | Turntable.fm Founder Says He’s Flattered By Facebook Listen With, But They’re Different | “I’m flattered Facebook was inspired by turntable.fm and created a listen together feature” says co-founder Billy Chasen about Facebook’s new synchronous music listening and chat feature Listen With. Chasen tells me “I look forward to seein... |
| 12.01.2012 | Facebook Launches “Listen With” For Turntable.fm-style Simultaneous Music and Chat | Look out Turntable.fm, Facebook today launches its own simultaneous music listening group chat room feature. New “Listen With” buttons in Chat and news feed stories allow you to select a friend as your personal DJ. When clicked, you’ll inst... |
| 12.01.2012 | Why Facebook’s “Listen With Friends” feature isn’t a threat to Turntable | Ruh-roh! Did Facebook just sideswipe up-and-coming music startup Turntable.fm with the release of its “Listen With Friends” feature? Hardly, but follow the headlines and you’ll find yourself swept away by the drama of something akin to a pr... |
| 02.01.2012 | The Management Team - While Building Product | The first stage of a startup, what I call the Building Product stage is management light. The team should be small. We have portfolio companies like del.icio.us and duck duck go where the Building Product stage was accomplished by one perso... |
| 30.12.2011 | Rolling.fm Co-Founder Tim Zhou Joins Tumblr | Mr. Zhou.
Wondering what happened to Turntable.fm’s fast following, Xoogler-founded cousin, Rolling.fm? The social music site has been serving up errors for about two weeks; Tenka, the founders’ previous startup, is also gone. Co-founder an... |
| 30.12.2011 | No Year End Music List This Year | Longtime readers will recall that in the early days of this blog, I would spend the last days of the year posting about music. I'd post a record every day for 10 to 14 days. These would be my top records of the year. Then a few years ago, I... |
| 26.12.2011 | Did Rolling.fm Shut Down After Six Months? | Back in September, Turntable.fm fast follower Rolling.fm was trumpeting achievements and rolling out new features. “We are excited to announce there has been over 1,000,000 friendships made on Rolling.FM since our launch a little over a mon... |
| 06.12.2011 | Inaugural Mashtival This Wednesday May Be Just What Turntable.fm Needs | One of the best engines for growth at a web startup is a core group of power users who evangelize for the service—not because it will increase their Klout score or possibly win them a free iPad 2, but out of a love for the community being c... |
| 05.12.2011 | In A World Where Recorded Music 'No Longer Has Monetary Value,' The Artist Is King | This post is a followup to a recent piece dealing with Wayne Coyne’s enthusiasm for utilizing “all technologies” to connect with fans (including using “pirate sites” for the distribution of the Flaming Lips’ music) as well as Bas Grasmayer’... |
| 01.12.2011 | The First Online Mashup Music Festival | I love emergent behavior inside web services. When the users take over and start doing stuff you never imagined, you know you've got something.
Next week, on Dec 7th, the core users of Turntable's three mashup rooms are hosting an online ev... |
| 01.12.2011 | Ten Years Later, Napster is Dead and Digital Music is Thriving Regardless | I’ll never forget when I first discovered Napster. I was in high school and had heard about it from a friend. As an avid music fan, I was delighted to suddenly find myself with access to a seemingly limitless trove of songs, some of which w... |
| 27.11.2011 | Social Proof Is The New Marketing | Editor’s note: This guest post is written by Aileen Lee, Partner at venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, where she focuses on investing in consumer internet ventures. Full disclosure: some of the companies mentioned below are ... |
| 23.11.2011 | Did Turntable.fm’s Traffic Fly South for the Winter or Forever? | That's Betabeat alone on the dance floor with the lame avatar.
It’s possible Betabeat’s “Summer Jamz” tag for Turntable.fm posts may have proved portentous. After looking at the site’s traffic and search trends, Digital Music News wonders, ... |
| 21.11.2011 | Raise Cache: New Yorkers strut for Silicon Alley, raise over $100K for HackNY | On Thursday November 17th, 1,300 plus New York techies descended upon the Lexington Ave Armory to raise over $100,000 for HackNY, a nonprofit organization run out of Columbia and NYU that keeps young engineers off of the “street” (i.e. Wall... |
| 18.11.2011 | Turntable.fm's Billy Chasen on pivoting and financing | Chasen talks about being turned down by Fred Wilson multiple times, and his 19-year-old cat
Billy Chasen, the young-John-Travolta-lookalike CEO of Turntable.fm, spoke at Venture Shift and started out with a little info on his cat: she’s 19 ... |
| 07.11.2011 | Make Music With Your Mouse | The best things in life are also often the simplest. That’s part of the reason we’ve been loving single-serving art websites from net artists like Miltos Manetas, Olia Lialina, Parker Ito and Rafaël Rozendaal. Cut out the feature bloat and ... |
| 27.10.2011 | Why you need to get to Venture Shift NY | The following post is sponsored by Vator.tv.
There are some rumblings that cash may be drying up for tech startups. Does that mean a shakeout is on the horizon, and angel investor hobbyists are going to go back to their day jobs? Are the no... |
| 27.10.2011 | It’s Alive: New Livestream Sounds Like Information Overload | New Coke was the reformulation of Coca-Cola introduced in 1985 by The Coca-Cola Company to replace the original formula of its flagship soft drink, Coca-Cola (also called Coke). New Coke originally had no separate name of its own, but was s... |
| 26.10.2011 | Raise Cache NYC Teams With Turntable.fm: Crowley, Wilson & Weissman In The House | Silicon Valley is still king when it comes to startup hubs, but there’s at least one area where NYC has it beat: having a good time for a good cause.
In this case, the event is Raise Cache, and it’s looking to raise $100,000 for hackNY, an ... |
| 21.10.2011 | Rumors & Acquisitions: Public Relations Edition | AS THE TABLE TURNS. How hot is Turntable.fm? Not hot enough for Talib Kweli, reports a Betabeat tipster. More than 100 people showed up at the Turntable.fm party last night for the CMJ music festival, where the rapper was supposed to laptop... |
| 17.10.2011 | Eff the PPA wins a Philly Startup Weekend mostly powered by CloudMine | Joe Deivecchio, middle, works with mentor Ryan Wertman and Open Talk sponsor Ankur Oberoi to develop his startup idea on Saturday. Photo: Theresa Regan
Technically Philly reporters Brian Dzenis and Theresa Regan contributed to this report.
... |
| 28.09.2011 | Is Facebook beating Last.fm with its own tech? | Both use 'Scrobbling' tech, though one uses it much more efficiently...
Facebook's latest redesigns have infused online music streaming with a strong element of social networking. In the coming weeks, Facebook users will be able to post the... |
| 27.09.2011 | What you need to know - 9/27/2011 | Facebook gets political; CareCloud raises $16.6M; picking a music service is no music to your ears
Canadian-based HomeSav.com raised $1.2M in seed funding for home decor flash sales. Investors include the founders of Shopper’s Drug Mart and... |
| 26.09.2011 | Which online music service is the one for you? | Spotify, MOG, Pandora, and Turntable.fm... Decisions, decisions.
As the new Facebook rolls out, so will their affiliation with several free music services Facebook hopes will make the social networking media experience ever more interactive... |
| 26.09.2011 | How Users Self-Categorize on Turntable.fm | No, not that kind of bear.
Now that Turntable.fm courts celebrities as investors, it’s fair game for the likes of The Hollywood Reporter, which had an interesting interview with co-founder Seth Goldstein over the weekend. In it, Mr. Goldste... |
| 23.09.2011 | Feature Friday: DJs Needed | Richard F has been urging me to talk about features I love every friday. I am not committing to make this a weekly feature (no pun intended). One weekly committment is enough. But I will try to run posts about features I love and new featur... |
| 23.09.2011 | Turntable.fm Wants You to Know You’re Needed | Come out and play.
With Turntable.fm‘s traffic coming in at lower levels than expected this month, investor Fred Wilson has written two very salient blog posts this week: the announcement of a new Turntable feature that should encourage act... |
| 22.09.2011 | Turntable.fm gets a new look, makes it easier to land a DJ spot | Hot social music startup Turntable.fm has updated its main page with a much-needed redesign that will make finding a spot to share your tunes easier than ever.
The new homepage is much slicker than Turntable.fm’s previous entry, which was f... |
| 22.09.2011 | Turntable.fm gets a new look, makes it easier to land a DJ spot | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Hot social music startup Turntable.fm has updated... |
| 19.09.2011 | Audio MBA Mondays | I've got some great news to share with all of you. MBA Mondays is now available in audio form. The coolest part is how it happened.
A few months ago, I met Tyrone Rubin in a room on turntable.fm. He was DJing and chatting. Because that's wh... |
| 18.09.2011 | The Facebook iPhone | In The Facebook Effect, David Kirkpatrick posits the great social network is the one entity that could bully Apple, today’s most powerful technology company. As the iPhone and other iOS devices have paved the way toward an unprecedented lev... |
| 13.09.2011 | Get That Gorilla! Point Farming on Turntable.fm | Ben Dowling is a software engineer behind such sites as Do Nothing for 2 Minutes, BusMapper and Geomium, as well as a co-organizer of the monthly Hacker News London meetup. He’s also, as of this week, attained the status of gorilla on the m... |
| 13.09.2011 | Turntable.fm | We finally got around to announcing our investment in Turntable.fm. I wrote this on the USV blog today:
Sometimes you end up loving something you don't want to.
When turntable.fm launched, I wanted to avoid it. There was the Facebook login ... |
| 13.09.2011 | Turntable.Fm Raises $7.5m in Funding | According to the company’s blog, Turntable.Fm, a music platform that allows users to share, and discover new music, has raised $7.5m in funding.
The round was led by Union Square Ventures, with participation from First Round Capital, Polari... |
| 13.09.2011 | Turntable.fm iPhone app goes live and it’s a dream | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Hot social music startup Turntable.fm has finally made its way to mobile devices with the launch of its iPhone app today.
We first hear... |
| 13.09.2011 | Turntable.fm iPhone app goes live and it’s a dream | Hot social music startup Turntable.fm has finally made its way to mobile devices with the launch of its iPhone app today.
We first heard last week that the startup was working on an iPhone app, and the app itself contains everything you’d e... |
| 13.09.2011 | Turntable.fm confirms $7 million from Union Square | Fred Wilson joins the board of what could be the future of social music
Confirmation, finally!
Social music mixing site Turntable.fm announced Tuesday that it has closed a $7 million funding round led by Union Square Ventures.
Turntable, wh... |
| 13.09.2011 | Turntable comes clean: $7M from Union Square Ventures, Lady Gaga, Facebook’s Tim Kendall and The Roots | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Turntable.fm has finally announced details about ... |
| 13.09.2011 | Turntable | Sometimes you end up loving something you don’t want to. When turntable.fm launched, I wanted to avoid it. There was the Facebook login button that I didn’t want to use. There was another music service I didn’t want to add to my already-exh... |
| 13.09.2011 | Turntable.fm Closes That $7 Million Round, Fred Wilson Joins Board | The line of investors trying to press their way into Turntable.fm‘s latest round of funding was appropriately similar to the line outside a crankin’ dance club: a mix of money and celebrity. And not everybody could get in. But the funding f... |
| 12.09.2011 | Rolling.fm has 1M friend connections; now serving virtual drinks | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
A little over a month after launching, music cura... |
| 12.09.2011 | Rolling.fm has 1M friend connections; now serving virtual drinks | A little over a month after launching, music curation social network Rolling.fm has more than 85,000 registered members who have collectively made over a million friend connections through the service, the company announced today.
The “frie... |
| 09.09.2011 | Giant Thinkwell Ditches Facebook Games, Dives into the “Live Web” with Flickmob | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The Seattle startup that put hip-hop legend Sir Mix-a-Lot back in the national headlines is making a big shift. Giant Thinkwell, a member of the first Seattle TechStars class,... |
| 08.09.2011 | Turntable.fm spins to the iPhone with new app | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Music curation social network Turntable.fm is developing a mobile application for Apple’s iOS devices, according to a report from TechC... |
| 08.09.2011 | Turntable.fm spins to the iPhone with new app | Music curation social network Turntable.fm is developing a mobile application for Apple’s iOS devices, according to a report from TechCrunch.
Turntable.fm turns its users into DJs who can share musical tastes within specific virtual rooms c... |
| 07.09.2011 | Turntable.fm Is About To Rock An iPhone App; We Have Screenshots | For the past few months, few things on the web have been hotter than Turntable.fm. The Stickybits pivot got so hot, so fast, that a “trough of disillusionment” was inevitable — and we’ve probably been seeing that the past couple of weeks. B... |
| 06.09.2011 | Chill Raises $1.5M From Kleiner Perkins And Others To Make Online Video Social | Chill.com, the infamous Turntable for video, is announcing today that it has raised a $1.5 million angel round from Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint, Atlas Venture and investor Paul Kedrosky. The site, entry to which was then shut down at some poi... |
| 30.08.2011 | Turntable.fm Claims its 1st Victim: Are Group Listening Services Viable? | I recently received an email from the guys at MixApp.
MixApp
was the first collective listening web app. It was founded at the beginning of 2010 by a group of friends who wanted to build the product for themselves, like Foursquare’s story. ... |
| 29.08.2011 | Goooood Morning, Silicon Alley! Gary Sharma’s Picks for the Week of August 29: The AARRR!! Edition | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder of GarysGuide and mentor at ER Accelerator. You can reach him at gary [at] garysguide.org.
So, it was a busy week. Steve Jobs (who loves black turtlenecks almos... |
| 26.08.2011 | Gap Closing Between Online and Offline Ad Rates | Pandora ads are now worth more than traditional radio ads, Gigaom reports this morning after poring over the company’s first public filing. The company’s mobile apps, however, are still worth less to advertisers than its web application–sho... |
| 25.08.2011 | Channeling Turntable.fm, ShortForm Shows Off Live VJ Video Parties (With A Custom TechCrunch Social) | Turntable.fm is so hot right now. In fact, when it comes to tweets, the synchronous social music platform may even have more Klout than Pandora or Spotify. With the rise in popularity of Turntable, it’s only natural that video curation plat... |
| 23.08.2011 | MySpace Relaunch Will Put its Focus Back on Music | When the site relaunches later this year, former social networking heavyweight MySpace will aim to reclaim the position it once held as a preeminent hub for music.
MySpace went through several attempts to reinvent itself before being sold b... |
| 19.08.2011 | Turntable.fm, Scott Cook, and Instagram Will Mix It Up At Disrupt SF | We like to mix things up onstage at Disrupt SF, which is only a month away so get your early bird tickets now. One session I am really excited will be on lean startups with Eric Ries on the day he will release his book, The Lean Startup (yo... |
| 18.08.2011 | LetsListen Aims to Be a Turntable Killer | There have been plenty of knock-offs and copycats since Turntable.fm brought social streaming music to the next level by turning it into a highly engaging game. But this is the first Turntable competitor we’ve heard of that’s out for blood.... |
| 16.08.2011 | Turntable.fm Gets the Taiwanese Animator Treatment [VIDEO] [UNICORNS] | Those Taiwanese animators don’t miss a meme, do they? Next Media Animation has a short segment on Turntable.fm (perhaps the first Next Media animation of something that is already an animation?), giving a brief explainer of the service, thr... |
| 15.08.2011 | Turntable.fm Popularity Gives Rise to Similar Services | The sudden and somewhat explosive popularity of the virtual DJing site Turntable.fm has paved the way for a number of services with similar, or sometimes identical, functionality.
The startup garnered a significant amount of buzz online sin... |
