Just the other day wedeclared2011 “The year of social audio”, and new figures fromSoundCloudtoday seem to bear that out. The audio sharing platform has announced that it has reached 3 million registered users. On its own, that sounds like a large number, but when you factor in that user numbers have grown by 1 million in under 100 days, that’s some growth spike for the startup that was founded in August 2007....
Social audio platformSoundCloudhas launched what amounts to an audio version of Formspring, and it’s pretty slick. Takes Questionsis an experimental Web app is designed for everyone from celebrities to everyday Joes and Josephines to engage with others via the intimate medium of sound. The service gives you a minimal, customisable homescreen with a prominent ‘Ask’ button. Visitors can record a question as audio right from the browser. The page owner can then answer the questions from a browser, iPhone or Android phone....
SoundCloud’s 4m+ registered users can now sell tracks easily, anywhere across the web and directly from within the browser. How? Well,SoundRainis a platform developed byMinnoabout, a micropayments system set up by former Google employees Noah Ready-Campbell and Calvin Young. SoundRain itself was created a mere eight days ago atMusic Hack Dayin San Francisco, where Minno’s founders were given the opportunity to integrate Minno with SoundCloud’s API. The result is an interface that allows music creators to connect their SoundCloud account with SoundRain which enables the creators to select which tracks they wish to sell for a one-off payment of 99 cents per download....
SoundCloud’s 4m+ registered users can now sell tracks easily, anywhere across the web and directly from within the browser. How? Well,SoundRainis a platform developed byMinnoabout, a micropayments system set up by former Google employees Noah Ready-Campbell and Calvin Young. SoundRain itself was created a mere eight days ago atMusic Hack Dayin San Francisco, where Minno’s founders were given the opportunity to integrate Minno with SoundCloud’s API. The result is an interface that allows music creators to connect their SoundCloud account with SoundRain which enables the creators to select which tracks they wish to sell for a one-off payment of 99 cents per download....
David Noëlis the Community Evangelist for the popular audio sharing siteSoundCloud, and when he found out that his friend Amit was diagnosed with Leukemia, he decided to use what he knows best to help him out. SoundCloud. Today, David has set up this page on SoundCloud using its Dropbox integration to help give his friend Amit a vote of confidence for his upcoming battle with Cancer. You can read hisblog post about Amit here, originally posted by Amit’s friend Chrysanthe Tenentes, Community Manager atFourSquare....
