Imeem gets some funding, looking for more
Venturebeat.com
Download revenue could get a boost, TechCrunch hears today, because the company is moving away from selling songs through Amazon and Apple’s iTunes to its own service, Snocap. MediaMemo reported in late March that Imeem had successfully ren...
Pillaging The Desks After The Layoffs
Forbes
When a round of layoffs took place at Snocap, a provider of digital licensing services, Rusty Rueff, then the chief executive officer, tried to snag a newly empty Aeron chair. He arrived too late. "Someone else got it," says Rueff, co-autho...
The Social Network Difference
InternetNews.com
MySpace partnered with Snocap in September to provide digital-music retail tools. And Multiply and Friendster released new versions with their own photo-, video- and music-sharing services. Those types of services are popular with social-ne...
MySpace launches karaoke service in Japan
PhysOrg
Mar 16, 2007 | not rated yet | 0 Word of an announcement from SNOCAP, the music technology/online distribution company, was brewing earlier this week, and today they finally let the cat out of the bag: SNOCAP is ...
Troubles At Imeem, But Company Says No Shutdown Imminent
TechCrunch
That’s exactly what imeem offers, 50% of the ad revenue goes to the artists, 50% to imeem, if you sign up as an independent artist through snocap then that’s the deal you’re offered. Now, that may not be much, but you should remember that t...
Why MySpace Music Won't Succeed
Village Voice
Worse yet was the project's alignment with Snocap, the little start-up that served as the engine running the MySpace "store." "Snocap was very poorly implemented," recalls Aram Sinnreich, a media analyst. "Not only was it clunky, but it som...
Why the New MySpace Music is So Damned Disappointing
Mashable.com
Myspace music has some great initiatives, especially the fact that you it collaborates with Amazon to allow consumers to buy music directly on myspace (which I believe was the downfall of SnoCap). But average people do NOT distinguish betwe...
Original Napster gone, but Internet effect isn't
Akron Beacon Journal
After Napster folded, Fanning founded another company, Snocap, a digital music retail firm that was acquired in 2008 by San Francisco social networking site Imeem. He also co-founded Rupture, a cross-platform social network designed for vid...
Why MySpace Is Really GeoCities 2.0
Gigaom.com
Their deal with Snocap was totally ineffective. They should have embraced a technology strategy with iTunes. Instead they wanted to compete with iTunes. Myspace started off with high potential. Then got greedy and controlling. They have a l...
Imeem Mobile Streams Your MP3s to Your (Android) Phone
Wired
As for this MyMusic feature, it should please the imeem faithful and attract new users, while having the beneficial side effect of increasing the site’s catalog (assuming the company’s SnoCap database confirms that the copyright holder allo...
Free Vanity
Phoenix New Times
While CDBABY, Tunecore, and SnoCap have given millions of Protools-equipped artists nationwide an almost-false sense of empowerment, we are learning time and time again that the key to jumpstarting an artist-fan relationship is giving your ...
Universal teams with TuneCore to discover talent
PhysOrg
Mar 16, 2007 | not rated yet | 0 Word of an announcement from SNOCAP, the music technology/online distribution company, was brewing earlier this week, and today they finally let the cat out of the bag: SNOCAP is ...
Is Warner Music Killing Music Startups?
Gigaom.com
The list of failed investments is long – SNOCAP, IMEEM, SPIRAL FROG , RUCKUS (if you only met the boy genius associate at Battery Ventures that pushed this investment – you would be scratching your head too). Let’s have a fair discussion of...
