 RAIN 8/29: Meet more of the experts who you'll hear speak at RAIN Summit Chicago ·Aug 29, 11:30 AM EXPERTS FROM TARGETSPOT, AOL MUSIC, MEDIA AUDIT TO JOIN US AS PANELISTS AT 9/13 EVENT We’re just two weeks away from RAIN Summit Chicago, this year’s early-fall edition of the Internet radio industry’s premiere conference.
AOL Music Network Vice President Lisa Namerow (right) will join us too, as part of the “Give Listeners What They Want” panel. It’ll offer a look at how experts use programming features like on-demand streaming, Phillip Beswick (lower-left), The Media Audit’s Executive Vice President of Media Group Sales, will appear on the panel “Sizing up Your Audience.” That panel will examine the strengths and weaknesses of each streaming online audience measurement RAIN Summit Chicago 2011 is sponsored (in part) by Liquid Compass, AirKast, TuneIn Radio and MoFuse.
iPHONE APP SHOWS WHAT RADIO STATIONS ARE PLAYING RIGHT NOWWhat’s On Air is an iPhone app that shows — as its name implies — what’s currently playing on radio stations across the world. The app not only lets users search for stations currently playing specific content, but saves the searches and alerts the user when a station starts playing matching tunes.As Billboard notes (here), the app could even be “helpful or amusing if you’re in the biz.” Find the app here. ANDROID-POWERED, NET RADIO-STREAMING CAR STEREO COMING IN OCTOBEROne of the most interesting Internet radio-capable car receivers at CES 2011 was the Android-powered Parrot Asteroid (RAIN coverage here. Now the device finally has a release date and price tag: October for $350.
The Asteroid sports a number of built-in apps, including TuneIn Radio, but can link up with Android smartphones and — surprisingly — iPhones via Bluetooth to stream any app of your choosing. Plus, Parrot has released an SDK for the Asteroid which should allow other developers to build specialized dashboard apps. CNet has more coverage here. INSIDE PANDORA’S COMEDY GENOME PROJECTPandora recently gave Fast Company an inside look at how the Net radio giant analyzes comedy. To build the Comedy Genome Project, Pandora’s staff of five in-house comedians score tracks based on a range of more than 100 characteristics including Delivery (“Angry/Hostile,” for example), Format (“Anecdote”) and Comic Hook (“Bait & Switch”).
Fast Company found that some “genes are scored along an axis that runs between two opposing traits,” such as “Deadpan” (Steven Wright) to “Animated” (Robin Williams). You can read Fast Company‘s full article here. Pandora branched into comedy in May, starting with 10,000 tracks by 700 comedians (RAIN coverage here). share: del.icio.us.  Reddit  Digg  Yahoo  Wink  Windows  Google  Newsvine 
CommentCommenting is closed for this article.  Other stories RAIN has upgraded (and moved)! RAIN 9/13: RAIN Summit Chicago takes place today! RAIN 9/12: First Summit in RAIN's hometown takes place tomorrow RAIN 9/9: Summer holidays, "doldrums" impact July Webcast Metrics, but audience up over last year RAIN 9/8: Clear Channel launches new customizable iHeartRadio beta; RAIN goes hands-on RAIN 9/7: Meet more speakers you'll hear at RAIN Summit Chicago in less than a week RAIN 9/6: Clear Channel taps The Echo Nest to take on Pandora RAIN 9/2: RAIN reviews Spotify's radio-like product Artist Radio RAIN 9/1: UK online radio aggregator Radioplayer campaigns b'dcasters to create "all radio" ratings RAIN 8/31: Execs from Merlin, Triton Digital, jacAPPS and more to appear at RAIN Summit Chicago |
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