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If any photographers/musicians are interested in trying out the private beta, PM me and I'll happily dish out the invite links :)
Please buy Soundcloud. They have a great product that hasn't made many improvements in the last couple years. Hopefully an acquisition by Twitter would give them the resources they need to thrive, without too much negative oversight. (Vine is an example of a very successful Twitter acquisition.)
I don't think Twitter would buy SoundCloud for audio Tweets or podcasts. Rather, I'd argue that SoundCloud is the #1 source of up-and-coming music on the Web today. Between play and upload information from SoundCloud and mention and trend information from Twitter, Twitter could easily become a content-discovery powerhouse. Information about the "next big thing" will always hold value for marketers, and access to the…
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> [SoundCloud hasn't] made many improvements in the last couple years. What, do you think, needs improvement? I use the application for recording and storing occasional riffs I come up with as private tracks, and to listen to new music from people I follow occasionally. As far as I've experienced, they need not make a big improvement over the site as it is now, but given that I'm not a power user , I might have misse…
The one that annoys me the most is playback. Songs will often stop playing randomly. It only seems to happen with the web client, not the iOS app, but it happens on a lot of different computers and people I have talked to.
I don't recognize that many from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...
Except for Dabble DB (Smallthought Systems) and Posterous:
http://blog.dabbledb.com/2010/06/140character-dabbling.html
http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/30/4281780/posterous-is-shutt...
I hadn't realize how extra-cruel the dabbledb thing was until I read this:
https://blog.twitter.com/2010/more-dabbling
"Up until about a year ago, we[twitter] used an online database called Dabble DB to track and share information about our projects internally. While we’ve since moved that project management tool in-house (...)" [In other words: we realize this was a great product, and we still killed it, because, meh profits for twitter?"]
For those that didn't know what DabbleDB was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wZmYMWKLkY
So, while an acquisition might be great for the owners of soundcloud, I'm rather terrified as a user...
I don't think Twitter would buy SoundCloud for audio Tweets or podcasts. Rather, I'd argue that SoundCloud is the #1 source of up-and-coming music on the Web today. Between play and upload information from SoundCloud and mention and trend information from Twitter, Twitter could easily become a content-discovery powerhouse. Information about the "next big thing" will always hold value for marketers, and access to the…
Reminds me of MySpace.
Please buy Soundcloud. They have a great product that hasn't made many improvements in the last couple years. Hopefully an acquisition by Twitter would give them the resources they need to thrive, without too much negative oversight. (Vine is an example of a very successful Twitter acquisition.)
I love SoundCloud, although it has deteriorated slightly in the past year (even little things, like the site going from truly fluid to having several fixed breakpoints, seem to indicators of them become more risk-adverse or "normal" — IMO). I think a change internally would cause some excitement and innovation within the company, and Twitter coming into it would not bring the right kind of change.
Uh-oh. Are there any other companies than Whisper System that had an actual end-user product that Twitter has acquired -- and then not killed off? I don't recognize that many from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio... Except for Dabble DB (Smallthought Systems) and Posterous: http://blog.dabbledb.com/2010/06/140character-dabbling.html http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/30/4281780/posterous-is-s…
* Summize -> search.twitter.com
* Tweetie -> Twitter for iPhone
* TweetDeck
* Vine
* Crashlytics
* MoPub
* Gnip
Please buy Soundcloud. They have a great product that hasn't made many improvements in the last couple years. Hopefully an acquisition by Twitter would give them the resources they need to thrive, without too much negative oversight. (Vine is an example of a very successful Twitter acquisition.)
> [SoundCloud hasn't] made many improvements in the last couple years. What, do you think, needs improvement? I use the application for recording and storing occasional riffs I come up with as private tracks, and to listen to new music from people I follow occasionally. As far as I've experienced, they need not make a big improvement over the site as it is now, but given that I'm not a power user , I might have misse…