Ingenious: Free Music If You Talk About It on Facebook or Twitter
After hearing about CASH Music's new web apps, which allow artists or labels to give a free song to anyone who tweets or posts a Facebook update about their music, we're wondering why nobody thought of this before. CASH Music, founded by Throwing Muses' Kristin Hersh and fellow musician Donita Sparks, then put together a Facebook version of the code, and released both of them as open-source software, free for the taking. "You can require the user to tweet a specific phrase, follow you or not, and the download can be sent via straight HTTP or secure using Amazon S3," reads CASH Music's announcement. Using either tool requires a bit of technical know-how, but given how powerful they are, we expect many artists and labels to take advantage of them -- and for this concept to spread beyond music.
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