Welcome to the Rocketsurgeon Blog - Dissecting the Latest in Music 2.0 and Digital Entertainment
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Rocketsurgeon is a Chicago-based experience design firm with an expertise in digital music and entertainment. We use our deep knowledge of emerging market models and ability to create engaging experiences to help artists, labels and entertainment properties transform their business into the music 2.0 world.
This section has been officially transformed into the Music 2.0 Directory. Instead of a static list of links, allows you to browse companies by categories. Additionally you can rate companies and post comments for each one.
The Music 2.0 Directory is a comprehensive listing of all the companies and tools that are participating in the new music revolution. Directory categories and companies are listed on the sidebar. Subscribe to the RSS feed to keep up current with the latest submissions. Have a suggestion for a listing? Contact us.
Vastfm.com is a UI for songs on YouTube. Basically, we take the artist that you select, and go get their discography from an open online music directory. Then, we take whatever song you choose, and search for that song on youtube. Then, we just play the video, and you hear the music.
Ffffoundtape.com is the lovechild of Ffffound! and Muxtape, where you find missing mp3s and share playlists from around the WWW. Find an mp3 that you would like to share. Use the bookmarklet (FFFF!) or ffffound it directly from this site. You could save the favorite mp3s and create a playlists. Customize the image album as well.
Jogli lets you search for artists, albums and songs and provides the ability to listen to everything you find and embed songs and playlists on web pages.
MusicRambler is a mash-up of Google Maps, Last.Fm and Flickr.
When you listen to music with Audioscrobbler, MusicRambler will collect images and events related to the artist you are listening to and will show them on a handy map
TuneChimp is the easiest way to discover the best music from any artist! Listen to top tracks from your favorite artist or quickly get a feel for a newly discovered artist. Learn more about them through videos, photos, bio, news, and lyrics. Keep coming back to discover what’s hot and listen to your favorites!
Big Book Search helps you find exactly what you’re looking for! Browse books, CDs, DVDs, and more, by their cover. High resolution cover images provided by Amazon.
Search for songs, browse charts or use your last.fm or pandora account to create full streaming mix tapes you can embed on your blog, profile or website.
Animoto, a web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos using their own patent-pending technology and high-end motion design. Each video is a fully customized orchestration of user-selected images and music. Produced on a widescreen format, Animoto videos have the visual energy of a music video and the emotional impact of a movie trailer.
Kalabo is an online service that allows musicians of all skill levels to collaboratively mix and modify each others original work. Download original free tunes from around the world, mix the tunes or record your own tracks over them and share the tunes with others to mix themselves.
ZonTube is an Amazon/YouTue mashup. You can search Amazon’s catalog acrosss the US, UK and Japan stores. The album detail pages provide thumbnails of matching videos for each song.