(New to Me) I can’t remember where I saw Jamdowndigital but it caught my eye. I’ve been so tired of seeing music and entertainment sites that throw free music videos and free songs your way with no true road to sustainability i.e..profitability. Hence it was damn refreshing to see someone offering a service and charging for it.The well thought and designed site is a contender and yes a competitor to PuKSHOP.
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If you are a music lover like I am, I’m sure you’ve heard of iTunes™, Spotify, LaLa, Pandora, Jango and eMusic but you may not have heard about PUKSHOP, the newest addition to the list of software based online digital media stores.
PUKSHOP, “a Caribbean rhythmic website for music lovers” (according to the website) went live on September 11, 2009 and is being described as a one-stop-shop that streams videos, podcasts, live events and music via its download site or jukebox application while allowing music fans (using either Mac, PC, mobile handsets and IPTV) to:
• search for and legally download songs either as singles or entire albums;
• purchase CDs
• download ringtones;
• store downloaded songs on their computer hard drives;
• purchase event e-tickets
• purchase Caribbean and Latin American carnival costumes and merchandise
• Caribbean-themed books
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MusicPassNetwork.com is a site where you go to download the reggae singles you bought using the equivalent of a top up phone card. We first got the preview of this online music product at Kingston Beta on April 28th by its lead pitchman Lloyd Laing. MusicPass.com the reggae music card and MusicPassNetwork.com are products from Riddim Jamaica a Kingston-based company that’s also spawned the Reggae News Agency. Watch Lloyd tell you in 3 mins what is MusicPass, MusicPass Network and why it’s important for the Reggae music and Caribbean music industries. He talks about the cost, when it will be launched and what they are doing now.
Then have a look at what the card looks like:
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Twittermania has gripped the world and the Caribbean and Jamaica are no different. Last week I wrote a post on the Top 12 Caribbean Twitterers, now I’m going country specific for a hot minute. Again, I used wefollow.com, which is a user-powered Twitter directory to track how many twitterers we had under the Jamaica tag/category. WeFollow.com has grown to become pretty much the Billboard Chart for Twitter follower standings, the current industry standard and most influenftial Twitter directory.
The top 12 Jamaican Twitterers list was developed by using this single directory with the sole determinant being- how many followers/subscribers does each Twitterer have. What I found was that the top 12 people/sites/individuals/companies with the most followers in the Jamaica tag/category are:
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I said it on Facebook and I have to say it again here. *Jah, take the wheel*. Reggae.com the domain name was wisely registered for ten years back in 1995. The thing is, that since I’ve been surfing on over there, maybe once or twice a year for the past number of years, it looks the same- a hellish mish mash of things stuck on a page hoping the lover of reggae music will tolerate wading through the madness to get to where they want to go. Hope does spring eternal for this site owner.
But come on, Reggae Music is such a global cultural tour de force, don’t you think it deserves a professionaly design site that makes it easy for lovers of reggae globally to go there and connect with some of the obviously really great audio and text content that’s there?
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Is Jamaica Ready for Music 2.0 ?
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I have a friend who’s steeped deep in the music industry here in Jamaica. As a studio engineer she’s worked with everybody really from Shaggy, Sean Paul, Toots to others emerging. We’ve had many conversations as had certain players in the industry as to why Reggae music is not selling, what infrastructure is needed to set up the industry for future success. I happened on this blog post by a colleague of mine GERD LEONHARD over at mediafuturist.com, so I had to share.
1. Truly collaborate to arrive at sweeping and effective solutions: the music industry has been notorious for in-fighting, wide-spread distrust, clubbiness and ludicrously fragmented business procedures and licensing rules. We need an industry-wide innovation initiative that looks at new business models from a global joint perspective of labels and publishers, artists and managers, agents and promoters, startups and societies. We need to rethink our traditional business rules and put the cards on the table – or that very table will start to burn down while we’re sitting at it.
2. Watch and listen to the kids i.e. the digital natives, and then offer business models that will serve them in the way they want to be served, not as we would prefer them to be served. This is seriously ingrained problem in the music industry: all too often, we are assuming the ‘consumer’ aka user to be different than they really are, and / or we are thinking of them to act like we do. This is a deadly mistake, as it will be those very same 15 year old kids that do Facebook, Twitter, Loopt, Spotify, Songza or Youtube that are our future customers. This ignorance has cost us billions already so let’s stop acting like we can control them or tell them what to do. MORE
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