The Best Ideas Of 2010: Musicians Who Made Social Networking Work

Midway through the last decade, media outlets started taking notice of bands who used the social media network Myspace to prime audiences for major releases. Today, social networking is a given — if you're a musician who's not on Facebook or Twitter, you should maybe think about whether you want people to hear the music you make.

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The tweetin's on him, yeah... and he spoke it ...he spoke it

Burton Cummings remembers being a Beatles-obsessed teenager and can only imagine how cool it would've been if he could've messaged John Lennon.

Which is why the former Guess Who frontman is a big Twitter user and a frequent blogger.

"Back in the day if I could've emailed John Lennon or Jim Morrison or some of these people who are gone now, just to think they might've read my stuff, I would've been thrilled," Cummings said during a recent interview.

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MTV Unveils Music Meter: A Hot 100 for the Social Media Age

Today, MTV launches its Music Meter, a new artist ranking service aimed at upending traditional music charts. Rather than simply track CD sales (who buys those anymore?) and radio airplay, Music Meter ranks the top 100 artists bubbling up on a variety of non-traditional platforms.

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Chrome OS: A new dawn for music-making?

With the release of Google’s new cloud-based OS now firmly on the horizon, it’s probably a wise time for all technology vendors and manufacturers to look to their products and ponder what the future may hold.

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SF MusicTech: Has Over-Tweeting Killed the Mystery Around Musicians?

After some theorizing about where and how it had gone wrong, the entire panel agreed that the industry was ready for change, and stressed the need for creating one-of-a-kind musical experiences: live internet concerts (Lowenstein), a return to albums with artwork and credits (Del) and bringing back vinyl and analog sound (Malo and Lebo). Showing that they'd all talked with an MBA or two at some point, the panel disagreed about whether "the long tail model" had gone too far in opening up the music market, but agreed with Malo that, "we don't need the wizard behind the curtain anymore." It's a new day for artists and fans; where it will take us is hard to say

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Overheard At Today's #SFMusicTech

• @CathyGellis says record companies are making more money from placement of songs in other media (e.g. ads) than selling records.
• Social media "sweet spot:" 3-4 status updates per day on Facebook; 8-10 tweets per day on Twitter, 3-4 blog posts/week
• "Accessibility is expected. Authenticity is required. An artist needs to be the complete package," according to Meridith Chin of Facebook
• @dmscott says "Effective music artists are listening and engaging. Virtual pats on the back in incredibly powerful."
• Sonos is experiencing issues of supporting applications for thousands of music services around the world.
• @mskaff, CIO of SF Symphony tweets: "Curation is one of the hottest memes in social media at the moment. That's essentially what this is all about. 

• "People search more lyrics than sex on Google"- Massimo Ciociola of MusiXmatch
• On Apps: How many apps is too many? Will smaller bands get lost?
• @mskaff: On panel comparing music attendance to movie attendanceand sports attendance, panelist suggests that music show impact appears next show
• StageIt enables live, paid online music experiences.
• Consumption of file based/iTunes downloaded music started decliningfor the first time ever in 2010.
• High Resolution Technologies announced the iStreamer, a separate $199 iPhone-size DAC device that improves the sound quality of iPhones.
• Yobble has developed a guitar pick with a motion sensor in it, attached to an iPhone which acts as a fret board. Plays like an air guitar. (video)

The Sound of Songwriting: With Courtney Taylor of the Dandy Warhols

In 1995 America, when the popularity of grunge was in a swift decline and a new wave of punk-ska was heating up around the country, Taylor was writing music inspired by bands like the Velvet Underground and My Bloody Valentine. In one of the Dandy Warhol’s earliest music videos for the song “Ride”,

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Billboard tracks artists' social-media popularity

Billboard has unveiled a new chart, the Social 50, that ranks artist popularity on social media. To calculate the 50 most popular artists each week, Billboard uses the number of weekly additions or subtractions in followers, as well as page views and song plays on artist pages on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, iLike, and YouTube.



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Tools for Sharing Twitter Music

There are plenty of ways for music lovers (who also happen to love Twitter) to combine their passions. Thanks to the thought that has gone into several Twitter tools, users can share the music they enjoy with millions of others instantly and easily. If you love to tweet and are interested in sharing music with your followers, consider the following

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