That much wouldn't be a big deal, but Apple recently announced podcast support in the new version of iTunes, and they announced a million new podcast subscriptions in the first two days. Podcasting was already getting fairly big on its own, but Apple officially kicked it into the mainstream. It is officially the next big thing on the internet.
That's pretty cool for the podcasting community, but they're about to get some help from an unlikely player. Along with RSS, tagging (in the folksonomy sense) is reaching critical mass this year, and, like podcasting, it's getting some help from another major player — Yahoo! has launched a new public beta of a tag-based social bookmarking community called "MyWeb."
Social tagging can help fans connect with other like minded people to share music that they're enthusiastic about. Combine social tagging with RSS, and you get a community-based music suggestion list that points you to podcasts that you might enjoy.
Netlabels are poised to take advantage of all these recent developments, because they already employ podcast technology to stay connected with their audience, and most of their audience is already net savvy, and likely to become early adopters. All great news for independent musicians.
Some Quality Netlabel Resources
- Bevlar Music
- KahviCollective
- Phlow Netlabel Catalogue
- Knobtweakers: Free Mp3 Blog (full disclosure: Knobtweakers.net is owned by the author)
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Article comments
1 - Temple Stark
Great great post. I'm going to be contacting more of these netlabels. Already have a few (for another site of mine).
In fact they could be incorporated here, as well.