Building Blocks of a New Economy for Music
Backfed is a conspiracy to rewire the Music Economy.
Backfed is building an open fan-to-artist payment platform and API that will enable music fans to pay (backfeed) any amount, to any artist. On this platform, we (and hopefully others) will build applications that will enable backfeeders to support their favorite artists, contribute to their career, assuage their download-guilt, and brag about it across their social media presence. Ultimately we want the Backfed ecosystem to grow and become building blocks of a Music Economy where artists stop selling units of content and start selling context, and where fans stop being consumers and can collectively become patrons of their favorite artists.
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Music for Nothing and the Fans for Free http://t.co/unLTkDiS
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RT @techdirt More Evidence That If You Give People A Reason To Buy, They'll Spend More http://t.co/pgUNqp1I
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How Much Does A Band Earn From Each Music Platform? http://t.co/UBRB8FY
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RT @bandzoogle: Ownership, access, enjoyment. Monetizing music. New post on the @bandzoogle blog http://bit.ly/jMJwo1 by @DavidDufresne
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RT @fauxbrizio: Don’t Quit Your Night Job: Musicians moonlight at regular jobs http://is.gd/jU1glB
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Must see ! @RT @techdirt: How Neil Gaiman Went From Fearing 'Piracy' To Believing It's 'An Incredibly Good Thing' http://dlvr.it/GMNch
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Hype for @bandzoogle CEO's SXSW panel ! RT @sxsw Music Panelist Spotlight: @daviddufresne. http://tinyurl.com/4t8cca5
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Can open source reinvent the music business? http://oreil.ly/faqrfg
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RT @bandzoogle: Take 1 min. to nominate your favorite music tech company for the FlashFwd Awards at SXSW http://www.soundctrl.com/flashfwd/
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RT @indierockgirl: Harvard scholar shows illegal file sharing helps sell concert tickets http://bit.ly/i9CApn
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RT @guguchu: Indie Musician And You Tube Star Charlie McDonnell Explains Why File Sharing Is Helping His New Release http://bit.ly/h3BX1W
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Less Than 30,000 Artists Are Actually Earning a Living... http://bit.ly/dc9kgy on @digitalmusicnws
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Great post by @jonaswoost Imagine a law, which would allow your mailman to open all your letters http://bit.ly/a6IJLt
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Super smart analysis: Superfans: They Love You First. They Book You Shows. It Gets Complicated http://bit.ly/a3Gmu7 Thx @hypebot
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New technology is scary. 2020 report on music video from 1980 http://youtu.be/7Vz7Z42Fl9s
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RT @bandzoogle: Interviewed by Smart People... @bandzoogle CEO @DavidDufresne gets interviewed by @zeitgeistnyc http://bit.ly/9SSROs
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Bad Moon Rising: The Practical Lessons of Sonic Youth http://bit.ly/8XgDIl on @pitchforkmedia
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RT @TheEconomist In the supposedly benighted music business, a lot of things are making money: http://econ.st/bixwDf
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RT @DavidDufresne: Do Fees Rationalize/Incentivize Communal-Culture Ecommerce? http://bit.ly/dAGmWa on @disquiet