Twitter Music Chart: A Billboard Hot 100 for Twitter?

There are a ton of ways to rank and share music via the ubiquitous microblogging platform Twitter – the best ones can be found in our recent post, 10 Ways to Share Music on Twitter. Since so much music is shared on the microblogging service, it’s possible to use this data to figure out which songs are attracting the most buzz, much like Twitter’s trending topics.

Pandora CTO Tom Conrad On Streaming Royalty Rates And New Funding

MG Siegler and I ran into Pandora CTO Tom Conrad on Saturday evening at dinner gathering in San Francisco. He was still glowing from all the good news at his once troubled startup: a reasonable settlement around online streaming royalty rates quickly followed by a healthy round of funding that should take the company to profitability sometime next year.

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