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Tonight at the Web 2.0 NYC meeting, Jonathan Vanasco from FindMeOn announced the launch of "Social Media Standards" which is apparently a non-profit group looking to create new standards that we can all use. He talked about Facebook and MySpace and Data Portability and a variety of programming languages. I’ve embedded his demo below and while it was WAY over the five minute length, I honestly have no idea what this group plans on doing. Jonathan spent the majority of his presentation talking off slides that had way too many words on them and it seemed to keep moving round-and-round without moving forward. And for some reason, he kept pointing out that he was the most arrogant person in the room. What I’d suggest is that Jonathan film another video explanation and if he does, I will update the video below with the new video.
He says that 40 Interactive shops, startups, developers and non-profits have already signed up to be a part of SMS but then noted that there are some legal issues with getting involved. Again, very confused.
Here’s how Jonathan describes this new Social Media Standards group:
What is SocialMediaStandards? We’re aligning Social Media producers - startups, advertisers, agencies, non-profits, brands - into an open community to define and mandate standards for Social Media Websites.
While DataPortability is concerned with the formats of transferring data, SocialMediaStandards are concerned with standardizing:
- Legal & Privacy Policies
- Backend Architecture
- Client Supported Technologies
- Industry Best Practices
- Common code base + integration points across technologies
Our standards will be open, Our processes are open, Our discussion is open, Our shared code is MIT/BSD (do what you want!)
Here’s his demo video:
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Back at Techcrunch40 last year, Musicshake launched their music mixing application. It was by far the crowd favorite and my overall favorite for the entire event. Unfortunately they didn’t win the grand prize.
Tomorrow they will announce the launch of the newest version of the Musicshake application. The new system features over 400,000 music modules created by real musicians. The modules are all types of different sounds, instruments and other musical elements. In this new version, Musicshake has also added 80,000 new electronica music modules.
They call the system the "Mubot" for music robot and it helps you to automatically harmonize the various elements of the track so you always sound (and look) like a rock star. Musicshake is a downloadable application as opposed to most Web applications.
Musicshake has also upgraded their social capabilities which include the ability to email and embed any track. You can also insert your music into Facebook and MySpace.
Honestly this is one of those apps that you just need to try. But only do it when you have time to play - this is not an app you will leave after a few minutes. If you do create any music, leave a comment so all of us can check it out!
Here’s an example song from their top 50 list of the top rated songs that users have created (it looks like the embed only works in IE!):
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