We’ve been featured at Kate Russell’s weekly review of new and interesting sites and apps at BBC News.
To paraphrase 19th Century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, “without music, the web would be a mistake” and a whole host of apps seem to take that mantra to heart.
New innovations from Facebook, Twitter music site Reelr.tv and iPhone app Wahwah all enrich the experience of music on the web.
You can view the footage here: Webscape: mobile music and social media KloutWe
We’ve been featured at hypebot in an awesome post written by Clyde Smith. Here’s the full article and there’s a link to the original source at the end of the post.
The basic concept of Reelr.tv is that you tweet a song title and include the hashtag #nowPlaying and they automatically create your channel at http://Reelr.tv/yourTwitterUserName. It’s fast, at least at 5 am ET. Without creating an account on Reelr.tv, I posted the hashtag and the title, “Can’t Tell Me Nothing”, and within 5 seconds I checked for the channel and there was Kanye’s video, ready to go! I have to admit, this was one of those moments when I was reminded that the Internet can still seem magical.
Reelr.tv has a flexible approach. If you set up an account, you can create your own custom hashtag. But you don’t have to have an account or login at all to check out videos and you’re not actually required to focus on music videos. Like most of the current YouTube-based offerings I’m seeing, the music video idea is the marketing focus but you can post any videos you wish.
The site is organized around tweej’s, cities (i.e. location of tweets), curated playlists or searches by artist, record or song from which you can create playlists on the fly.
And if you can’t stand to do anything that’s not monetized, you can upload ads to YouTube and include them in your feed.
The only thing it doesn’t have that most related services include is an interactive chat feature which isn’t an issue for me but might be for other folks.
Reelr.tv is rather elegant in its simplicity with enough features to satisfy divergent approaches without complicating matters. That’s hard to do and I’m suitably impressed.
Hypebot contributor Clyde Smith is a freelance writer and blogger. He is currently relaunching Flux Research to pursue his long-standing obsession with web business models. To suggest music services and related topics for review at Hypebot, please contact: clyde(at)fluxresearch(dot)com.
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When we started the design and code of Reelr.tv, we knew we had a cool idea. Long are the days since we started reading Mashable’s new series Spark Of Genius and we wondered if someday we would be featured on it.
Well, all the effort we have made in 9 month’s we’ve been developing Reelr.tv has paid of with one of our goals achieved. Being featured in a cool publication such as Mashable.
We give thanks to Sarah Kessler to write such an amazing review on us.
You can read the original post by going here:
Almost 2 months ago we launched MTweeV as a service for everybody to enjoy music-video content and for everyone to have the most easy way to create broadcasts.
Maybe naively we thought of a cool name that remembered what was to watch videos for some and blended it with the main source of content for the playlists.
MTweeV mixes music, tweets and videos. Of course, phonetically speaking it collides way too much with MTV (Music Television), although we had “charte blanche” while registering the trade mark, there had been opposition from the fellows at MTV to our name. Being them the pioneers, and being our service essentially enjoying and broadcasting video-music we don’t want to engage in a fight that most likely we will loose (and frankly we think it would be really quick!!).
That said, we do think that we can peacefully coexist with MTV and the folks at Viacom and decided to bury the name and head towards a new and cool one such as REELR.TV.
Thanks to the early adopters who enjoyed staying at MTweeV. We hope the change does not cause much trouble!
LONG LIVE REELR.TV
Today, we have launched mTweeV, an easy way to check what your friends and thousands of other VJ’s and broadcasters around the world are playing.
The idea we had in mind for starting the product development was to use social networks (Twitter in our specific case) the way around other players were doing it, not just passing info to showcase some text of what was happening in the environment but to use the social networks as the data source of what would happen in mTweeV.
Basically, we recognized that people around the world were using Twitter to expose their taste and beliefs and particulary in the music scene tell everybody the tracks and songs they liked while appending the nice hashtag #nowPlaying.
There, the idea was born. The #nowPlaying data helps us to go the way around we mentioned. Create a broadcasting engine with the huge and still growing YouTube video database mixed up with the short messages from the Twitter users so you could have a music channel to show to your friends and followers for them to have a good time and not just read what you like, but actually have a place where to watch the videos related to a simple song and artist.
So, just by tweeting songs you become an mTweeV VJ or Station.
There will be a lot of work to do from now on so we can flag out the current BETA mode, give everybody an accurate music expereince and help broadcasters to make mTweeV the best tool around to easily reach thousands if not millions of people around the world.
We also have to mention something really important that serves as the foundation of our company. mTweeV is a place made by music lovers for everyone who shares our passion about music.
We really hope you all like it and invite you to enjoy it at www.mtweev.com www.reelr.tv
We are very excited about the launch of the plattform.
MTweeV is an engine that will redefine how we enjoy and share musical content on the web.
If you want us to let you know the minute we launch, please contact us and send your email.
Thanks for your interest, we’ll be on air in no time!
The MTweeV staff!