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The Little House, is a community hall that myself and others have been working on, over the last few years to provide a space for artists and community groups we work from an old school hall in Hounslow West London, we provide muti-media equipment to community groups and provide space for bands to rehearse and play as well as record, for the bands they need this space so they can develop and learn how to use a studio before they go and use and pay money for studio time. Community groups need the  space for thier projects and with most do not allways have the funds to pay for space, so we try to do as much as we can for them.

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On Monday, I posted the question, How Can Nonprofits Use Pandora?  I wanted to share with you the response from Pandora's Community Manager.  They're doing some pretty great stuff!

I do know that teachers use Pandora stations and our musicology podcasts to educate students. And indie musicans are making better livings via their exposure on Pandora, which is a great source of pride for us.

Source: NetSquared, a project of TechSoup.org blogs

I finally set myself up on the personalized Internet radio station, Pandora, and I LOVE it.

I'm wondering, is there a way that something this awesome could be used to help nonprofits, especially ones that support the arts?

The thought must be in the air because recently Lucy Bernholz of Philanthropy 2173 wrote a post, Pandora, Pop Culture and Philanthropy.  In it she says,

• Google launches its Official Traditional Media Blog
• Google Apps save One million pounds for UK construction firm
• Google now “captures” Flash Content
Source: Tech Bytes at Use Bytes

Last.fm has become interesting. Atleast for Squeezebox owners.

If you are making music would you be comfortable to sell without a record label ?

Would you like Wal-mart to sell your music directly ? How do you like buying Wal-mart branded music ?

It doesn’t matter because it is already here since long(?)

I found this at pda.

I came through a short, but interesting, post from Simon Judge over at Mobile Phone Development.

Simon makes a very good point. When you have a brilliant idea for a mobile service you may find yourself engaging so many partners asking for slices of the pie that makes the whole service not appealing for each of the single partner on the venture.

From Tuesday, 12.15 pm UK time for one week only you can come here to download a free copy of a new song Violet - 4:11

Guess 4:11 is the track length not some chapter & verse

So? How many guys are going to be behind Radiohead ?

1) Cold Play

[British art-rock band Coldplay is releasing its new single on its Web site free of charge today, the latest band to experiment with new distribution models made possible by the Internet.]

2) Metallica

-or- How I got a Grooveshark account

I caught a blurb about Grooveshark Lite this morning and decided to give it a look (see, Twitter can provide value). While I know very little about Grooveshark itself, I have to say that the Lite version is very cool!

Oh God ! Another Music site.. LA Times reports that - [A Santa Monica company whose investors include actor Will Smith is launching a website Wednesday that offers 10,000 high-quality music videos and concerts for free.PluggedIn Media Corp. has the backing of three of the four major music companies: Universal Music Group, EMI Music and Sony BMG. The site has raised more than $2 million from its founders and from Overbrook Entertainment, a production and management company whose principals include Smith.]