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The best social media player – Tunewiki !

Posted on: Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
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Tunewiki delivers social media player including song lyrics synchronized to the music playing, a one-click music video link, music maps and charts based on actual playback count, and deliver new playback experience on PC, Google Android phone (won 1st prize in the ADC competition), an Apple iPhone/iTouch, Intel MID and a variety of other music-enabled mobile devices.

A collaborative community of users enters or corrects lyrics and synchronization information that can be shared by all, a process similar to sites such as Wikipedia.

The site launched in late December 2007 and is wildly successful, supporting more than 1.5 million downloads of is software.

Cool fact: The main TuneWiki website is powered by “MediaWiki” wiki software.

Just sexy media product? no! much more than that…

Tunewiki

It is a consumer media product that allows people to experience music with others in their social network.

TuneWiki’s social media player is the first to integrate music and video with legal, synchronized lyrics and a social network.

The lyrics, data and synchronization are contributed by the community, using wiki technology and are been licensed from the publishers.

TuneWiki MusicMap displays the approximate geographic location of people listening to specific songs and artists.

LiveCharts allows consumers to access a real-time music popularity list by country or state, and listen to music from other cultures with lyrics translation to their preferred language.

11/19/08 — Won the GSMA “Top Innovator” award for APAC

9/25/08 — Won the first prize – Google Android Competition

Source: http://www.crunchbase.com/

His Video Elegance

Posted on: Thursday, February 19th, 2009
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Oren Lavie is an Israeli Musician / Producer / Director. He did several plays off-Broadway and Of-West End, produced a music album and then distributed it through his own label “Quarter Past Wonderful”.

The video for his song “Her Morning Elegance” is climbing, slow but steady, into the hall of fame of viral videos. Beautiful and unique, matching the moody morning song, the video was created by people who worked for fracture of their usual costs. It took 4 weeks to create an animated storyboard and only 2 days of live shooting to produce the 3225 all-stills frames for the stop motion.

More info on Oren’s Myspace.

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The best social media player – Tunewiki !

11/19/08 — Won the GSMA “Top Innovator” award for APAC