The Radio Cluster: Key Sites and Readings

by Pamela A Garavano-Coolbaugh

Please study these five sites:

1. Pandora.com – (Wikipedia on Pandora)

2. Lastfm.com – (Wikipedia on Lastfm)

3. Slacker.com – (Wikipedia on Slacker.com)

4. Blip.fm

5. Musicovery.com (Wikipedia on Musicovery)

Five Killer Links

1. Wikipedia Article on the Whole of Internet Radio: a History and Survey

2. New York Times Article on the background of the sites and how and why they were started:

3. A User’s Point of View On How To Maximize and Manipulate Use:

http://lifehacker.com/software/technophilia/fifteen-lastfm-power-tweaks-296554.php

4. Digital Rights Management Background and Current Status – (A Few Short Articles)

Background:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/14/technology/14radio.html

Update:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/arts/music/02arts-WEBRADIOBILL_BRF.html

Analysis:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/27/technology/internet/27radio.html

An Interesting Business Strategy Offered via TechCrunch To Deal With Business Model Dilemmas:

http://www.techcrunchit.com/2008/08/26/free-internet-radio/

5. The Future of Internet Radio? (A Longer Article – Be Sure to Read All the Pages)

http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=10765&page=1&c=31

Best of the Rest:

1. ilike.com – www.ilike.com/about

2. Playlist.com – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Playlist

3. The Hype Machine – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hype_Machine

4. Mystrands.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystrands#MyStrands_-_Music_Community_and_Recommendations

5. Grooveshark.com – http://grooveshark.com/about

Other Useful Articles that Deserve A Quick Reading:

• A Great Article on the Background of the Music Industry and How the Model is Changing:

http://remixmag.com/production/music_business/columns/remix_go_own/

• An interesting perspective on the start of Pandora:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/arts/music/03leed.html

• The Future Business Model of Internet Radio? – A Possibility via TechCrunch

• Another Version of the Future of Internet Radio – Portable Devices like the Logitech Squeexbox Boom

• A Useful New York Times Article About How Clear Channel is Thinking in 2.0 Terms.

• A User Point of View with a Poignant Comment:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2113874,00.asp

• Another User Point of View with a Poignant Comment:

http://martinmanley.typepad.com/jam_side_down/2009/01/rediscovering-music.html#more