At a London conference back in June, The Next Web caught up withSoundCloud Co-founder Alexander Ljungto get this thoughts on the role that audio plays on the Web. “If you’re ever scared during a horror movie, try muting the TV rather than shielding your eyes”, said Ljung. “You’ll find it has a much greater effect. Sound really taps into our emotions.” Alex revealed the vision of SoundCloud was to “unmute the Web” and make audio a key facet across cyberspace....

It was only last week that we asked “Why is the Web so quiet?” and now this has landed in our inbox.SoundControlleris a Flash-based tool that aims to make audio interactive much more interactive on the web. Built by creative music consultancyHear No Evil, SoundController is aimed at developers who want to create immersive audio experiences in the browser. Users can adjust elements of the audio, such as instrumentation, panning and effects, and the app makes sure it all happens smoothly in time to the music....

3 years ago, if you saw someone in a coffee shop holding an iPhone 3G up to a speaker you would’ve been very confused. But in 2008,Shazamlaunchedits sound recognition app, which quickly gained notoriety and created this new user habit. That person in the coffee shop is not crazy, they’re just curious. One year later, a California based company calledSoundHoundlaunched an ambitious competing app that trumped Shazam’s recognition quality and its accompanying content....

While there are plenty of apps that let you stream music on the go, not many of them are particularly social.Soundtrackeris different in that it’s designed from the ground up to let you discover the music that other people are listening to, and a new update released for the iPhone version of the app is out today. Available for iPhone, Windows Phone 7, Symbian (via the Nokia Ovi Store) and Samsung Bada, at first glance this app is similar to Last....

Within thepast three days, open-source community and project hosting networkSourceForgehas been attacked, its operations team detecting a targeted attack at the sites developer infrasctructure. As a result of the attack several SourceForge.net servers were exploited, leading the team to shut them down to safeguard user accounts, software projects and protect other services operated by the network. The shutdown has meant that its CVS Hosting, ViewVC (web based code browsing), New Release upload capability and Interactive Shell services were switched off, preventing any further compromise....