Follow-up on Sharehead and MySpace
Here’s a quick video from the Sharehead sessions I talked about earlier. Shows some interesting promise.
Also joining the movement towards new and different music distribution (and making it more difficult for me to finish stupid MySpace book revisions) is this news about MySpace negotiating with major labels to create a free-to-consumers music distribution service. As we learned with Qtrax, these things need to have all the correct signatures in place, with whatever fluids involved dried and final, before they can be taken seriously. I’d submit that, until the songs can be taken around in a portable player, such services aren’t really that great. If MySpace made the tracks downloadable or at least stream-able to devices like their Helio parters or the iPhone or another device, though, it might be taken more seriously.
If it happens at all, that is.
I should probably get ready to change that chapter, though.