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Last.fm expands mobile offering with Android platform

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Last.fm has launched on the Android platform, offering an ‘on-the-go’ music application enabling users to access all the best of Last.fm from their mobile phones.

Features include similar artists and genre-specific streaming radio stations, personalized streaming radio, up-to-date concert information and the ability to track users’ listening habits to their Last.fm profile. The launch of Last.fm on Android marks the latest step in Last.fm’s expansion into the mobile music space.

Using the Last.fm application, users can listen to streaming radio stations such as personal recommendations, similar artists, and genre-specific tracks. Users can also share tracks with their friends on Last.fm and stream other users’ stations. The new ‘Background Playback’ feature enables users to listen to Last.fm’s streaming music while accessing other programs, such as email, without interrupting the music experience.

Last.fm users can view an on-the-go version of their personal music profiles that includes mobile versions of Last.fm Charts page and Artist pages, with biographies, tags, similar artists and top listeners, all optimized for the Android platform. Users can access Last.fm’s Events listings to browse artists on tour, search for events, view Last.fm recommendations and view mapped directions to music venues.

Originally posted on January 23, 2009 @ 11:49 am

Sling.com now a video entertainment destination

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Sling Media, Inc. announced the public launch of Sling.com, an online video entertainment destination. Users can go to Sling.com to watch a huge selection of clips, TV shows, films, news and sports in high quality, for free, anytime they want. This includes video programming from over 90 content providers spanning 150 content brands.

Sling.com features:

• Robust editorial programming: Sling.com’s editorial team creates great content including blogs, playlists and clip collections.

• Socialization features: Users can subscribe to any channel, show or user to create a feed of programming and activity that reflects your personal tastes and those of your social network.

• Slingbox access: For the first time, Slingbox owners can now access and view their home television (cable, satellite receiver) and DVR via the Sling.com website, making their Slingboxes available without a software client download.

Originally posted on December 3, 2008 @ 8:21 am

MADtv tunes in to top fans with StreamSend

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StreamSend is helping client MADtv in creating spealized communications with its fans. The Emmy award winning comedy series has proven to be an audience favorite for fourteen seasons with its unrivalled pop-culture parodies and politically incorrect humor. MADtv enhances and personalizes that relationship by reaching its core group of over 20,000 enthusiastic show viewers through its e-newsletter, offering weekly updates about upcoming episodes, new sketches and future guest stars. The MADtv newsletter also features extra content for subscriber first-viewing, and resulting emails are printed and delivered to the cast member they address.

Turning to email provider StreamSend, MADtv found the solution to creating and enhancing relationships with its most devoted fans, insuring that its messages would only be sent to welcoming readers.

First, StreamSend helped them whip the subscriber list into shape, removing inaccurate or uninterested addresses and reducing the list by almost 30,000 names. But the remaining list was golden: for the first time, MADtv had an accurate, direct link to make sure these top fans received timely, relevant show information. ISP concerns about Spam were allayed as opt-outs were recognized and respected, allowing emails through to eager readers.

Originally posted on November 17, 2008 @ 8:06 pm

MovieTickets.com poll ranks Harry Potter sequel as most anticipated movie of the coming year

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Nine months in advance of its box office debut, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is already casting a spell over moviegoers, according to a poll from MovieTickets.com.

In a survey conducted between Aug. 8 and Oct. 5, nearly 4,000 movie fans who had just purchased tickets at MovieTickets.com weighed in with their picks for the “most anticipated” films over the next 12 months. Rounding out the top three films generating the most interest over the next year were sequels “X- Men Origins: Wolverine” and “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.”

The MovieTickets.com Top-10 Most Anticipated Films

1. “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”
2. “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”
3. “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”
4. “Public Enemies”
5. “Angels & Demons”
6. “Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian”
7. “The Informant”
8. “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs”
9. “The Day the Earth Stood Still”
10. “The Taking of Pelham 123”

Originally posted on October 28, 2008 @ 5:15 am

MeetTheFamous.com launches a different kind of celebrity website

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MeetTheFamous.com announced the launch of its new website: the first and only to pay users who break celebrity news. The site is already creating a buzz amid celebrity gossip enthusiasts with its tagline: “Where You are the Paparazzi!”

MeetTheFamous.com takes a fundamentally different approach to celebrity gossip because 100% of the content is created by users instead of relying on mainstream news sources. The result is countless first person experiences, good and bad, that feature the biggest celebrities in the world.

“I started MeetTheFamous.com because so many people witness celebrity news breaking on a daily basis. Aside from tipping off the gossip sites or news outlets, they don’t have anything to do with their photos or stories and then they go relatively unnoticed,” said Jordan Osher, CEO and Founder of MeetTheFamous.com. “I saw a need in the celebrity news industry and filled that void with a fully interactive celebrity website that actually pays its users for breaking celebrity news.”

In its first week, MeetTheFamous.com has already seen 10,000 visitors submit over 1,000 user generated celebrity news stories.

Originally posted on October 21, 2008 @ 3:39 pm