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Atlantic Participates in Adobe’s Flash 10.1 Mobile Launch

admin — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:59:57 +0000

Today Atlantic launched our first round of mobile websites in conjunction with our partners at Adobe. We launched 8 artist’s sites targeting Android 2.2 and Flash 10.1, with iPhone and iPod Touch coming later this month. This is a launch we were very proud to be a part of, and a project will be iterating on in weeks to come.

I’ll be posting more infomation on our new sites in the next few weeks, everything from getting started in mobile web development to Flash 10.1 specific issues.

Special thanks to Mike Mignano and Rob Beatty on my team at Atlantic Records for their continued help on this project.

Check out the press release here.

Check out my quote below:

“Flash gives us another great avenue to deliver music and videos to our fans on mobile devices, and beyond. Scale is key for us and Adobe Flash Player 10.1 allows us to create a great mobile experience, using content we already have, and familiar tools. We have already optimized some of our most popular artists’ websites for Flash 10.1 and are working to deliver new ones each week.”
– Eric Snowden, senior director, Creative and Technology, Atlantic Records

Check out the full list of quotes here.

EGO – All your web stats in one mobile app

admin — Tue, 25 May 2010 18:02:55 +0000

EGO is a mobile application that lets you check all of your web statistics in one place, from a mobile device. It supports Google Analytics, Twitter, Vimeo, Tumblr, Feedburner, Ember, Mint and Squarespace all in one application, with new services being added frequently. While the iPhone version only lets you view high level stats, like page views and follower counts, the iPad app lets you dig deeper and view the full sites associated with you analytics inline. A must have for anyone who wants to keep tabs on their website and the social web surrounding it.

Check out EGO here.

NARM 2010 Mobile Applications Panel

admin — Mon, 17 May 2010 22:47:29 +0000

Today I was on an amazing panel at the 2010 NARM Convention discussing the use of applications in the music industry. While the focus was on mobile apps, we discussed desktop apps, widgets and the mobile web as well. The panel was moderated by Tom Constabile from Verizon Wireless and contained experts in design, development, and publishing. It was a great honor to be included in a healthy debate on an important part of the music business. I’ll be posting a link here once the video is online.

NARM 2010 Convention link.

NARM 2010 schedule of events.

Usability Assessment of MySpace Apps Leaked

admin — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:11:35 +0000

MySpace has never been know for its simplicity or usability. Fortunately for users they were trying to do something about it. Unfortunately for MySpace those documents leaked online. MySpace was seeing poor install and retention rates for their apps compared to Facebook and hired a usability team to make some web design and user experience recommendations. It’s more pixel pushing than redesign, but a very interesting look into one do the largest sites on the web and how they strive to improve their business.

Click here for a link to the document.

Stickybits – Attach Comments or Media to any Barcode

admin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:16:41 +0000

Stickybits is a service that lets you attach comments or media to any barcode. Instead of generating QR codes, you can make an object social by using the barcode it already has. To tag an object without a barcode you can either download a custom code to print yourself or buy Stickybits barcode stickers.

Download the Stickybits iPhone or Android application and track down a barcode. Using the app you can tag an object, view your tag archives, or see what other people have tagged near you. Each item gets its own page on Stickybits.com where you can comment, upload media and follow the conversation from the web.

Frankly, I’ve been waiting patiently for QR codes to matter but with companies like Stickybits using pre-existing targets, and the huge advancements in image recognition software QR has a hard road ahead. Stickybits is currently only on the iPhone and Android platform, but their unique strategy around making codes social may push them to the front of the pack.

Check out Stickybits and get the app here.

Thanks to Jeremy Kutner for introducing me to this one.

Flash Runtime Written Entirely in Javascript

admin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:20:07 +0000

Gordon is a open source Javascript based Flash Player written by Tobey Tailor that allows users to playback Flash content without having the plugin. It currently only supports Flash 1 & 2 so Actionscript users are out of luck. Right now browser support is pretty limited but it’s an interesting project worth keeping your eyes on if you are hoping to playback Flash animations on platforms (Apple) that don’t support the plugin.

Check out the project on GitHub.

Shinedown Website Launch

admin — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:22:38 +0000

Today we launched a new website for Shinedown. Shinedown.com was one of the first sites we built at Atlantic (over two years ago) that was a community and focusing heavily on UGC and the direct connection with fans and artists. Since then we’ve launched 30+ sites on the Cisco EOS platform and it’s great to finally see this band move over and benefit from all of our learnings. We’ve also implemented both Twitter’s @anywhere and Facebook’ s Open Graph. Designed in house by Edith Levin developed by Mike Mignano and the WMG D2C team.

Check out Shinedown.com.

Twitter launches @anywhere

admin — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:28:31 +0000

Yesterday Twitter launched it’s @anywhere service which makes integrating most Twitter functions as simple as adding a few lines of Javascript code. You can easily:

Auto-link @usernames
Create Hovercards for @usernames
Create follow buttons that don’t require users to leave your site
Add a “Tweet Box” which allows users to tweet without leaving your site
Integrate Twitter login & signup into your site

Check out the new Twitter dev site.
Check out the @anywhere documentation.

Talking about the iPad with Alternative Press

admin — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:17:48 +0000

Check out my thoughts on how the iPad may effect the music industry at AltPress.com. Looks like I made the cut and was quoted a few times talking about the device. The interview was purely conceptual as none of us had seen the actual hardware, but I think everything we said holds up well post-launch.

Check out the full article here.

Adobe Flash Video: One Web. Any Screen.

admin — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:48:39 +0000

Adobe released a new video today showcasing their upcoming Flash 10.1 and AIR 2 technology running on a multitude of devices. As part of the Open Screen Project you can see one of Atlantic’s new videos for artist B.o.B running in Flash during the piece.

Check out the video on YouTube.