{"id":2084,"date":"2008-01-07T13:48:52","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T18:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/01\/07\/can-ian-rogers-help-save-music\/"},"modified":"2008-01-07T13:48:52","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T18:48:52","slug":"can-ian-rogers-help-save-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/01\/07\/can-ian-rogers-help-save-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Ian Rogers help save music?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can Ian Rogers — who left grad school to tour with The Beastie Boys<\/em>, and then later helped to run the company behind Winamp — turn Yahoo Music into something worth paying attention to? A tough assignment, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed, based on the presentation he gave<\/a> at a music-industry confab in Aspen. The Yahoo Music executive has already made it clear that he has big ideas, and Mike Arrington says that he thinks something big<\/a> could be coming from Yahoo.<\/p>\n

If you read the entire post, however — and I encourage you to do so if you care about music online, even though it is fairly long — it becomes obvious that Rogers is talking about something more than just making Yahoo Music suck a little less (something he wrote about fairly eloquently in an earlier post<\/a>, also based on a presentation he gave). It’s clear that he envisions a kind of open-source approach to music standards online, and that means not just doing away with DRM, but making it easier for music to be found and identified — and sold — wherever it exists.<\/p>\n

In that context, Ian mentions a guy I have recently gotten to know: David Gratton, a Vancouver entrepreneur who founded Project Opus<\/a>, a social-media venture that is working on an open music-identification standard called JAMM. (David is also the guy behind the MixxMaker music-sharing app for Facebook, which I wrote about<\/a> yesterday). David’s vision seems to be the same as Ian’s: in a nutshell, make music of all kinds easier to find, tag and share online. Here’s hoping that one or the other (or both) of them succeed.<\/p>\n

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Can Ian Rogers — who left grad school to tour with The Beastie Boys, and then later helped to run the company behind Winamp — turn Yahoo Music into something worth paying attention to? A tough assignment, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed, based on the presentation he gave at a music-industry confab in Aspen. … <\/p>\n

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