Trouble Updating Mac Plug-in

It’s been brought to our attention that some users are experiencing a problem updating their Mac plug-in. If you are encountering errors with the update messaging please download the latest version of our iTunes plug-in. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Talkin’ OpenSocial

Here’s a chat on OpenSocial I had at Google:

Finally Tamed the Leopard

A week and a half ago Apple released Leopard. There have been many known problems with Leopard. Among them has been the fact that it broke our plug-in. And our plug-in in turn broke users iTunes.

We have been working on this since the release, and today we finally released a new version with all of the bugs killed.

Please download this new version if you are a Mac user. We apologize for the problems we’ve caused, thank you for your patience, and hope you enjoy the new build.

Qloud, Google & OpenSocial

We were excited to be invited early on into Google’s OpenSocial effort. It has been great working with them and getting to know them over the last two months. Our Orkut app is fantastic and will be open to users as soon as the Orkut platform is. Y’all should look forward to it.

I spent last week out in California at Google and then the Campfire One event. OpenSocial is going to be great for the Internet and for us. We’re so excited about it that, now that everything is public, we had to do a press release. See below.

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Social Music Service Qloud to Support New OpenSocial APIs

Common APIs for Building Social Applications on the Web, Launched by Google, to help Support the Widespread Adoption of the Qloud My Music Experience on New Platforms

WASHINGTON, D.C. – November 5, 2007 – Qloud, backed by Steve Case and a “supergroup” of Internet and music luminaries, today announced that it is fully embracing the new OpenSocial APIs launched by Google as a fundamental step toward quickly and easily making the web more social.

The Qloud My Music application is a revolutionary music service that delivers online music to users how they want it – legal, cost-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. By supporting OpenSocial, Qloud will dramatically expand its availability on social platforms and accelerate adoption of its popular music service.

Qloud is one of the first companies to participate in the OpenSocial initiative. Its feedback and development efforts helped craft the OpenSocial API. Qloud My Music’s application is now running in the developer sandbox provided on Orkut.

“The OpenSocial programming model developed by Google is a breakthrough step toward maximizing the social potential of the web,” said Mike Lewis, co-founder of Qloud. “OpenSocial is providing a fast and efficient way for Qloud and other innovators to deliver compelling social applications.”

OpenSocial is a set of common APIs, launched today by Google, for building social applications on the web. Common APIs mean that developers only have to learn once in order to start building social applications for multiple websites, and any website will be able to implement OpenSocial and host social applications. OpenSocial will bring more powerful and pervasive social capabilities to the web because developers will be able to develop and distribute their applications more easily. Users will be able to enjoy new social features faster and in more of the websites, web applications, and social networks they use. More information is available at code.google.com.

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.

Google, Orkut, and OpenSocial are trademarks of Google Inc.

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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