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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).

 

Gil Scott-Heron

Gil Scott-Heron is an American legend, and if you're lucky enough to be at Coachella right now you can catch him on the Gobi Stage in an hour (Friday 4/16 @ 6:55pm). The soul music innovator and hip-hop forefather dropped his first record in 1970, and after a 15 year hiatus he's back with a new record, I'm New Here. Dig the video for "Me And The Devil" below, and check out the Gil Scott-Heron Station on soundtrckr for more militant grooviness.

С Днем Рождения Сергей Васильевич Рахманинов!

It's Sergei Rachmaninoff's 137th birthday today. Interesting fact: the virtuosic pianist and last of the Russian Romantics is suspected to have had Marfan syndrome, which pretty much means he was really skinny with super long fingers (hence some of the difficulty people have playing his piano compositions). Fwiw, Bradford Cox of Deerhunter/Atlas Sound fame has it too, and so did Joey Ramone, and probably also Robert Johnson. So hooray for long fingers and happy birthday to Rachmaninoff, who rocked hard.

Daniele on bnetTV from CTIA 2010 in Las Vegas

Soundtrckr Live @ OMS Developer Pitch Sessions

...starting right about now! 

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.   

CTIA Wireless 2010: Mobile Monday Live

CTIA Wireless kicks off its 25th year tomorrow, and Daniele will be there doing a demo at Mobile Monday Live. He'll be joined onstage by a host of other neat startups, and the demos will be followed by a panel discussion on mobile-y things and the future. It's going to be good fun, so if you're in Las Vegas for the conference stop by and say hello.