Epicenter (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
In this Wired.com video segment, Topspin Media’s Ian Rogers explains that while it’s a good idea for bands to sell their wares through iTunes, it’s pure folly to send customers away from a band’s website to buy the songs elsewhere. The website for the popular band MGMT, for example, includes “buy” links on iTunes, Amazon, and [...]
The Closet Grandmaster (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Chess may be said to be the "gymnasium of the mind", but P.E. grads teaching chess? Commenting on this piece of news ( "Azerbaijani chess schools lacking coaches: deputy education minister" ) in today's Sun Herald, GM Ian Rogers writes: While Australian Education Departments are notorious for using humanities teachers to cover for the shortage of maths and science teachers,...
Our Bewcastle Ancestry (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
... Shawhead Robert was John's son. This tradition has continued into the present. My uncle Frank Rogers, the son of Maggie Goodfellow Story, became a stonemason, as did his son, my cousin Ian Rogers. This adds up to six known generations of stonemasons in the Story line. There was a gap in my grandmother's generation, as her brother Willie worked in the grocery business and Robert became...
Music Ally (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
... Daniel, R2G/Wa3.cn * Daniel Ek, Spotify * Loic Le Meur, Seesmic * Alexander Ljung, SoundCloud * Ian Rogers, Topspin * Anthony Volodkin, Hype Machine Apply HERE Who should apply? * Your company must be relatively new (i.e. it should not have been operating commercially for more than approximately three years) * Your company’s technology and/or business model should demonstrate genuine innovation...
Feld Thoughts (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
... Foundry Group spot . That’s one (very effective) way to get my attention. Music Hack Day Boston : Ian Rogers, the CEO of Topspin Media point this out to me. It’s happening on 11/21 and 11/22 in Boston at Microsoft NERD and includes plenty of friends (such as Harmonix, Sonos, and Boxee). If you are into music + tech don’t miss it. GoogTweetBing: Yeah, you read it hear 3,412,413th. Google+Twitter...
Epicenter (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
An obscure sharable playlist file format called XSPF (pronouned “spiff”) has led to the development of Playdar, a “music content resolver service” with implications for everything from how much Pandora and Spotify have to pay record labels and how fans share music with each other. A group of programmers and digital music heavy hitters including Ian [...]
Chess news by ChessVibes (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
... sake: they always serve to enrich the portrait that Sosonko paints.” — Hans Ree , ChessCafe Or as Ian Rogers of The Sun Herald has put it: “ Every word in Russian Silhouettes rings true “
Wired: Underwire (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
... ‘too serious’ hip-hop, [with] intentional variety, unusual song structure and topics, etc.,” said Ian Rogers, head of Topspin Media, in an e-mail to Wired.com. Topspin is handling the release of Uzi Does It , which will be available for pre-order Oct. 27 and will hit digital retailers Nov. 10. I’m not 100 percent up on the latest beats, but some of this sound is mostly new to me. Take a...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
... and CEO of Seesmic (France/USA); Alexander Ljung, founder and CEO of SoundCloud (Germany/UK); Ian Rogers, CEO of Topspin (USA); and Anthony Volodkin, founder and CEO of Hype Machine (USA).
 
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