Fortune has a very interesting article by Mike Jones, formerly CEO of Myspace in its attempted-comeback years, on what he learned during the process of trying to turn around the ailing social network.
Social games & music
There's Miso Media's Plectrum, which “listens” as you play, scrolling the tablature forward as you progress through the song, or Tonara's interactive sheet music, WildChords', a musical game that uses audio technology to ... 
Social TV games platform developer PlayJam closed a $5 million first round of investment with participation from GameStop Digital Ventures, Adobe Ventures, Endeavour Ventures, London Venture Partners, and several unnamed “game industry luminaries.”...
Fortune has a very interesting article by Mike Jones, formerly CEO of Myspace in its attempted-comeback years, on what he learned during the process of trying to turn around the ailing social network. 
Zynga’s FarmVille to CityVille conversion rate stacks up favorably against that of many core franchises. But it’s not just FarmVille players that are loyal; for almost any given Zynga title, between 80% and 95% of players also play another Zynga game. And they play often, like eight sessions a day on average for Ville series gamers – compared to roughly two play sessions a day for Call of Duty and Warcraft series fans. But they don’t play for all that long: 41 minutes per day for Ville gamers compared to 177 and 252 for CoD and Warcraft respectively. And while Zynga led the way in creating a new kind of game and a new kind of gamer, hardcore and social gamers are approaching their own version of a singularity. In 2010, only 20% of Xbox 360 players also played a Zynga game. So far in 2011, that number is already at 30%. Via Albin Serviant 
The Express TribuneEnrique to appear on Facebook gameThe Express TribuneBy IANS Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias will appear on CityVille, the popular game on the social networking site Facebook, as a way of publicising the artist's current tour... 
Google is catching on fast to the potential of getting artists to hang out in, er, Hangout. Music marketing firm FanBridge appears to be doing rather well with a new feature called Social Digest. It collects updates from a band’s social networking profiles and organises them into a weekly email newsletter for fans. 
Rihanna has launched a gamified Facebook campaign in order to promote the release of new single ‘We Found Love’. 
With the increasing trend to open API (application programming interface) usage and impressive metadata banks like the Echo Nest’s, hack days are becoming even more interesting. Activision announced this week that it would discontinue the Guitar Hero line of music games for consoles and disband its Guitar Hero business unit. This. 
With both Facebook and Google, who have recently introduced gaming to Google+, both focussed on developing their own music offerings, there could also be an option of a potentially useful integration between social ... 
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Finnish startup Ovelin has bagged first prize in the Match Point pitching contest at the Music & Media Finland conference. 
Nokia unveiled its first two Windows Phone smartphones this morning at its Nokia World conference in London: the Lumia 800 and Lumia 710. 
Rhapsody boss Jon Irwin has entered the debate around artist payouts from streaming music services, although his guest column for Billboard carefully skates over some aspects of the argument. 
The IndependentFacebook-Spotify Love-In Over-Estimated Users' Social LivespaidContent.org“Music is the most social object there is,” Ek had said. 28.2% of all albums sold in the UK in the third quarter of this year were digital, according to new figures released by the BPI. That’s up from 20.1% in the third quarter of 2010. 
US indie label Ghostly International has notched up more than 150,000 downloads of its Ghostly Discovery iPhone app. The app helps fans to explore the label’s catalogue, recommending songs and artists based on mood, tempo, timbre and other metrics. Yesterday’s music announcements at Facebook’s f8 conference focused on music services: Spotify, Rhapsody, Vevo, Rdio and the rest. Labels weren’t really referred to, even in the ensuing panel sessions. 
Spotify has been taking a great deal of flak today about a change made to the service that forces newly registered users to log in using their Facebook IDs. 
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