Collaborative Playlists

Making mixes is fun, but we find making them with your friends is even better. We’ve added new functionality to our playlists on myMusic for Facebook that allow you to invite your friends to edit and create playlists with you. There’s also a new create playlist tool so now it’s even easier to make the perfect mix for a lazy sunday or your next party.

Related artists - now users choose

The related artists area on Qloud went through a major overhaul over the past few weeks. Now when viewing an an artist, users can decide who the related artists are. On the right side of an artist page there’s an area to vote for other related artists and enter in new ones. Give it a try on any artist page in Facebook!

What’s your theme song?

Do you have a theme song? Do you identify closely with Ice Cube or Whitesnake? Does the song “Shake Your Booty” perfectly describe your moves on the dancefloor? Now you can let the world know. And, if you happen to know a great theme song for your friend, you can assign one to them too. Our new What My Theme Song? application has all of this built in and more.

It’s easy to assign any friend a song. Once you do, they’ll be able to listen to the song and send some to their friends. Check it out here

Concerts are here

A commonly requested feature for our application is concerts. People want to know when an artist is touring and when a show is in their neighborhood. We took a big step in delivering this to them today with our first release of concerts. To see what we’ve done, visit any Artist page (such as the Plain White T’s) of an artist on tour and we’ll display where their next 3 shows are. You can click to “see all” to see all of their shows, and clicking “Find Tickets” will take you to a page to purchase the tickets.

This is only on Facebook now and is just the first step in our concert integration. Let us know what you think.

New and Improved Library View

Yesterday, along with our big PR release, we officially released the new My Library view. Not only did we give the library a complete user-friendly makeover (with the iTunes look-and-feel), but we also added some great functionality for our users to better view, filter, play and share their music.

Here are some of the more glamorous changes:

• Your library is now sortable by track name, artist, play count, and time of last played.
• Users can “search” their own library for easy filtering.
• Unwanted songs can be easily deleted from your library.
• Playlists can be quickly created with the “check box” and “Add to Playlist” action.
• And my personal favorite - users now have the ability to add songs from a friends’ library by simply clicking the “Add to Library” button next to any track.

So what are you waiting for? Check it out and let us know what you think.

1MM Facebook Users!

Here’s our press release on it and announcing our investors and directors:

STEVE CASE AND MUSIC LUMINARIES JOIN TO CREATE
ONLINE MUSIC SERVICE QLOUD

Qloud debuts free, on-demand streaming music service –
iTunes playlists now accessible anytime, anywhere, to anyone from any computer

Company’s My Music application built on Facebook® Platform reaches 1 million registered users – making it more popular on Facebook than Last.fm, Pandora and Imeem combined
“Supergroup” of investors and board members includes Case and former Yahoo!, Island Records, Warner Music Group, EMI Music, and AOL executives

WASHINGTON, D.C. – November 1, 2007 – Steve Case’s Revolution LLC today announced that it has formally launched a new online music service – Qloud (pronounced “cloud”). With 1 million registered users and 120 million recorded plays in less than three months, Qloud’s My Music application built on Facebook® Platform is already the second-largest music application on the social utility.

Case is joined by a number of online and music industry luminaries as investors and board members in Qloud, including the founder of Island Records, Chris Blackwell, who discovered U2 and Bob Marley and was recently inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame; the founder of Launch Music, Dave Goldberg, who most recently headed Yahoo! Music; the former head of AOL’s online music properties, Jim Bankoff, who will now serve as Qloud’s chairman; Ted Leonsis, Vice Chairman Emeritus of AOL and Chairman of Revolution Money; and music industry executives Paul Vidich, formerly EVP Strategy and Business Development of Warner Music; and Tom Ryan, formerly Global SVP of Digital and Mobile Strategy of EMI Music. Qloud was co-founded by former AOLers Toby Murdock and Mike Lewis.

The Qloud My Music application is a revolutionary music service that delivers online music to users how they want it – legal, cost-free, DRM-free, on-demand and linked to their personal music libraries – and where they want it – inside social networks where they can share music with and discover it through their friends.

For example, by simply installing the My Music Facebook application users immediately can see and legally play entire songs and videos from their complete iTunes libraries inside of Facebook for free. My Music also allows users to see and play online the iTunes libraries of their friends, view and exchange playlists with their friends, browse and play the most popular songs among their friends and social groups, and add their friends’ songs to their own online libraries.

“Although there are hundreds of music sites, Qloud provides consumers with unparalleled choice, control and convenience,” said Steve Case, chairman and CEO of Revolution LLC. “Qloud enables people to conveniently listen to the music they love while also helping them discover new music through their friends. We’re delighted to be partnering with a ‘supergroup’ of legends from the music and Internet industries to take music – and social networks – to a whole new level.”

Qloud’s service features an online jukebox with unlimited, streaming music and videos played on-demand. Qloud delivers this new and exciting music experience by embedding content from licensed providers, such as YouTube, Revver and Brightcove, and then making this content available to consumers in easy to navigate locations. Qloud also features deep social networking tools and a powerful, community-based music discovery system driven by the Qloud iTunes plug-in. This plug-in recreates a user’s iTunes library in a browser and enables users to explore the iTunes libraries of other Qloud users.

“It is clear that Qloud’s My Music has already struck a chord with consumers,” said Jim Bankoff, chairman of Qloud and former EVP of AOL. “It is striking to see that My Music is now more popular than Last.fm, Pandora and Imeem combined on Facebook - especially since these music brands have been around for years and My Music became available just three months ago.”

In addition to availability on Facebook and syncing with iTunes, Qloud expects to soon announce integration with other social networks and syncing with additional media software.

“Free, on-demand content via an all-in-one interface and without the DRM hassles associated with downloads is the music experience that consumers want,” said Toby Murdock, co-founder of Qloud. “Combined with our music discovery tools, community of music lovers and the ability to take your music with you to other social platforms, Qloud is revitalizing the online music experience for consumers.”

About Qloud
Qloud delivers free, on-demand music directly from a web browser, leveraging an iTunes plug-in to connect users to others in the community with similar musical tastes, and provides a Qloud Facebook application for sharing music with friends. The company’s investors and directors include Revolution Chairman and CEO Steve Case and former AOL, Yahoo!, Warner Music Group, EMI Music, and Island Records music executives. For more information visit www.qloud.com.

Facebook® is a registered trademark of Facebook Inc.
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Media Contact
Steve Kerns
Marketing Alchemist for Qloud
415-241-9928
steve@marketingalchemist.com

See What People are Listening to with myMusic’s Charts

Wouldn’t it be great if you could see the best songs from all of your friends? Now you can! The myMusic application just added charts. You can now see the top tracks and top artists of your friends, your networks and everyone on Facebook.

On the myMusic home page, there is a short chart that shows the top 3 tracks and artists of your friends and everybody. Click the “See All” from there or click “My Charts” on the top of the page to see the full charts. From the list of songs, you can easily pop out the playlist into the Popout player and sit back and hear all the tracks that your friends love. Check it out by clicking here

Showing the tracks from your network is also a great way to see what people around you are actually listening to. If you’re in school, you can now see the top tracks of your entire campus. If you working in NYC, you can easily see the top track last week in all of New York. And, of course, each time you find a track you can play it right there, send it to a friend, or post a comment

Read the Feed

Today we launched a new version of our Facebook My Music app homepage, that includes a news feed of what your friends are up to musically.

In one glance now, you can see what’s going on among your friends musically, not just on Facebook, but in iTunes, on their iPod (and soon from other sources as well). Here are the different news feed “stories” that we include now:

• When you receive a musical poke
• When a friend send a musical poke
• When a friend receives a musical poke
• When a friend installs the application
• When a friend writes on an aritst wall
• When a friend’s top artist of the week changes
• When a friend’s top song of the week changes
• A friend’s first play of the day
• When a friend creates a playlist
• When a friend creates a power hour playlist

And we have a lot more story types in the works, too:

• Top 5 tracks and artists of the week of all friends
• Top 5 tracks, artists of the week of network
• When a friend writes on album wall
• When a friend writes on track wall
• Top track, artist of lists of friends (as soon as FB releases it)
• When a friend changes their musical status
• When a friend tags a track
• When a friend bookmarks a playlist
• One of your playlists gets bookmarked

Eventually too we’d like to have users be able to customize which stories they have in their feed, and even create specific story types (I’d like to have news on “Kayne West”).

Lastly, we can put this feed anywhere: can expose it as a RSS feed that a user can consume wherever. Would you be interested in that? Is there any other suggestions you might have?

Hope you enjoy it!

MyMusic Now Has Playlists

Listening to individual songs is great. But what’s even better is listening to a list of songs. We’ve always synched your iTunes playlists with the website, but now you can do even more. You can create new playlists, edit playlists that have been synched, add pictures, change names, and more.

It’s a great way to share songs too. Just make a playlist, give it a name and share it on your profile.

Check out the new feature by clicking HERE

More Facebook Functionality: Popout Player

As you may have realized, our facebook application is a great way to see what your friends are playing. Whether you check out the “My Friends Music” tab at the top of the application, or see the latest plays a friend is doing on his/her profile - the My Music application is working really well.

We haven’t stopped working on it though. Over the past week, we’ve been updating the application. You can now more easily listen to many tracks in a row by using our popout player where you queue up tracks to listen to.

Check it out and let us know what you think.