Grooveshark: Legal P2P Trading, Everybody Gets Paid

Rev2 writes about social music site Grooveshark:

The way that Grooveshark works is that, in typical P2P manner, you download their software and specify the folder where your existing music collection exists (i.e. iTunes’ My Music folder). Your music is made available to other Grooveshark users to purchase through their website for $0.99, from which you get purchase credits for sharing based on a unique contribution-ranking system of theirs, and the record label and artists get a cut out of.

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Tags: social music, grooveshark

TIOTI’s Social TV Guide Officially Launched

Mashable writes about social tv site TIOTI:

TIOTI, which stands for Tape It Off The Internet, is officially launching tomorrow. What started early last year as a TV guide meets YouTube meets BitTorrent, TIOTI has been laying pretty low for nearly a year.

A lot has changed within the industry since then, from social search engines and bookmarking sites to video-specific search engines and network-driven web communities. But, we liked TIOTI a year ago, and we like it still today. It’s still got a sleek design that’s easy to use and easy on the eyes. Social features, tracking tools and exportable widgets help you find shows that are interesting to you, and stay up to date on all the things you love.

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Tags: social tv, tioti

MOG Relaunch Includes Full-Length Tracks

Mashable writes about social music site MOG:

MOG is gearing up for a complete site redesign, which will include better page load time, a new color scheme, and easier ways to consume music. More importantly however, there will be full-length tracks available on MOG, which will also be available for your music widgets and playlists. Instead of the 30-second samples that currently on MOG, full-length tracks give you better ways to enjoy your music.

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TIOTI To Launch Tuesday

NewTeeWee writes about the public launch of social tv service TIOTI:

The social TV download guide Tape It Off The Internet (TIOTI) will finally open to the public tomorrow. As one of the first sites to combine online TV with social recommendations, wiki features and tagging, TIOTI got some rave reviews when it first appeared late last year for a private beta test. The fact that it offered easy access to torrent downloads of your favorite shows didn’t hurt either.

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Tags: social tv, tioti, tape it off the internet

Joost Launches: Video Interview With Mike Volpi

NewTeeVee has a video interview with Mike Volpi behind social tv service Joost:

Joost, the impeccably pedigreed, funded, and hyped Internet TV platform is releasing its software to the general public on Monday. For those of you beta testers (like us) who’ve griped about the reliability and usability of the application, the company promises a significantly upgraded client, including a new navigation system, search, and an open API for third-party widgets. It is seeding the open API with widgets of its own, including synchronized watching and video markup tools.

Joost is seeing 50,000 beta downloads per week, and with open access hopes to receive between two million and three million users by the end of the year (for this figure the company counts unique user IDs, not downloads of every upgrade of its player), CEO Mike Volpi said in an interview last week (see the video below).

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Tags: social tv, joost

Ad-Supported “Free” Music Plays On: SpiralFrog, Imeem, QTrax

GigaOm writes about alot of deals in the social music space:

As Apple (APPL) and Amazon (AMZN) duke it out in the MP3 price war, music publishers are still trying to figure out how to cash in on a crowd that will go to great lengths to get its music for free.

Imeem, a San Francisco-based music discovery startup, said it has signed a content agreement with Sony BMG Music Entertainment that gives users access to the Sony(SNE)-Bertelsmann joint venture’s digital catalog of music and video for ad-supported, “free” streaming of these files.

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Tags: social music, imeem, spiral frog, qtrax

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Sony now streaming music for free on imeem

Venture Beat writes about a deal between Sony and social music site Imeem:

Sony BMG has become the latest music label to offer its entire music and video catalog for free streaming on imeem, a Web site focused on letting users share music playlists.

Warner Music Group did the same in July (our coverage). The deal is significant because it represents one more fissure in the once united stance among music labels to stick with a paid model and digital rights management. Increasingly, music is being streamed for free, supported by ads.

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Tags: social music, imeem, sony