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Jonas Woost on Music and Location-Based Tech

Here's Jonas Woost, former head of music at Last.fm. Check out his 5 minute breakdown on how smartphones and 32 satellites in medium Earth orbit are bringing music back to its local-ist roots: 

Soundtrckr on the MobileBeyond Podcast

Brian Prows of MobileBeyond published a nice piece about soundtrckr today, complete with an audio interview of founder/CEO Daniele Calabrese (and a choice photo of Daniele chilling out in his second home, which is a plane). Please enjoy, and thanks to Brian for the good words!  

Live at Digital Hollywood

Digital Hollywood starts today in Santa Monica, CA. The conference and trade show focuses on the intersection of entertainment and technology, and soundtrckr's own Daniele Calabrese will be speaking tomorrow afternoon along with Stephen Jackson, Jason Henderson, Michael Schade, Jennifer Cooper, and self-styled "Mayor of LA" Matt Story. The event will be live-streamed via ultralivetv and AT&T Intelligent Content Distribution. 

dcMOMO (video)

OpenMusicMedia Toronto #3: Location, Location, Location

On Wednesday, May 12, OpenMusicMedia Toronto will host a meetup and discussion on the intersection of music and location-based services. Keynote speaker, digital music veteran and OpenMusicMedia co-founder Jonas Woost will lead the crowd on a tour of Soundtrckr, Foursquare, Last.fm, Songkick & more, examining their impact on artists, fans and advertisers. More details soon...  

Soundtrckr @ Mobile Monday DC

Soundtrckr is presenting at Mobile Monday DC's "Navigating GeoSocial Applications" event, joining Brightkite and Skyhook Wireless to discuss the convergence of geolocation and social networking. We'll put up video as soon as it's available. 

Géosociaux 101

French film & music site lesinrocks.com does a nice overview of geosocial apps for mobile devices. Included are soundtrckr, foursquare, Gowalla, Brightkite, Tweetsii, Gypsii, Toodalu and Plyce. 

(iffy English translation via Google Translate available here).

 

Daniele on bnetTV from CTIA 2010 in Las Vegas

The Future of Mobile Advertising @ CTIA

Google-- being Everywhere, Always-- sent Diana Pouliout to CTIA in Las Vegas this week. She's their director of mobile advertising, and today she gave an insightful talk on the future of her field, citing "ubiquity", "mobile web", "location" and "driving actions" as the 4 critical factors in the success of mobile marketing efforts. Very cool stuff, and you can read more about it here.   

Feature Updates

Soundtrckr has been in Barcelona this week for the Mobile Premier Awards and the Mobile World Congress, and we've taken the occasion to unveil some big updates to the iPhone app.

By popular demand, you can now seed stations from any artist in our music library, plus determine the current location of your friends and listeners. The update is available from the iTunes App Store here.  

We hope you enjoy the new features, and, as always, comments and suggestions are welcome and encouraged!