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.

Qloud now on Hi5

We’re very happy to announce that we’re live on Hi5 networ. For those of you who don’t know, Hi5 is a social network that has over 70 million users. Similar to Facebook and Bebo, they have opened up their site to allow applications to integrate into it. We are happy to be one of the first two to be on this platform.

An interesting difference about Hi5’s platform is that it supports Google’s OpenSocial API. All our profile boxes and canvas pages are built using the Widget API. It’s great to see that the Social has begun and to be part of it.

Our application inside Hi5 initially is just the Library view, search functionality, and Favorites. Favorites is one of our newer features that allow users to select which artist and tracks are their fav’s and place those on their profile. Over the next couple weeks, we’ll be adding more and more features to the service to make it more fun to use and easier to share with others. Stay tuned.

As always, send us comments to feedback@qloud - we’d love to hear what you think of the application

louie

Bebo Launch Press Release

Here’s our Press Release on our Bebo launch.

Sure, read the release. But most importantly, go have fun with the app!

Qloud Delivers My Music to Bebo Media Network

Deployment of music discovery service introduces unlimited music and social discovery to 40 million users on the Bebo media network.

Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) December 12, 2007 — Qloud, a social music service that allows users to listen to music inside of social networks, today announced that it has launched its My Music application on Bebo’s social media network.

The Qloud My Music application is a revolutionary music service that delivers online music to users how they want it - unlimited, 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 Bebo’s Open Application Developer Platform, Qloud will now deliver the My Music experience to Bebo’s well-established international user base of 40 million.

“Qloud’s My Music application is proving that unlimited, on-demand content is the music experience that consumers want on social networks,” said Mike Lewis, co-founder of Qloud. “Bebo’s platform has made it easy for us to develop a rich and social music experience inside of their network, and we’re excited to leverage this platform to bring My Music to Bebo’s 40 million users.”

By simply installing the My Music Bebo application, users can immediately see and legally play entire songs and videos from their complete iTunes libraries inside of Bebo. 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.

“We’ve had great traction with the My Music application. More than two million registered users are demonstrating how My Music has created a unique and powerful music experience for social networks,” added Lewis. “We look forward to bringing our My Music application to Bebo’s users and to monitoring the response it generates in markets like the U.K. and Ireland where the network has a strong presence.”

About Qloud
Qloud delivers the music experience that consumers want– unlimited, on-demand content — where consumers want it — inside their social networks where they can discover and share music with their friends. Over two million registered users across three social networks have recorded 300 million plays in the last four months. 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.

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MyMusic is now on Bebo

Today we announced that we’re launching our popular MyMusic application on the Bebo network. Bebo’s the 3rd largest social network in the world behind Facebook and MySpace and we’ll be one of 5 music applications that users can choose to use on their service.

Similar to our facebook application (which is approaching over 2 million installs), the Bebo application will have a Library page, a page displaying My Friends Music, and a Charts page. The applciation will also have a new game called “Name that Artist” which will challenge you to name an artist in 10 seconds based on a short clip of their music and part of their Wikipedia information.

To check out the application, click HERE.

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.