We are sorry to notify you that Twones has closed from 9 juli 2010

The engineering team, founders and technology are now a part of shuffler.fm which will launch in a few months. If you want to reach us you do so via our music agency tone.fm

We want to give our heartfelt thanks to everyone who participated in Twones. Twones started as a friendfeed for music. We have tried several versions, iterations and models and it has been quite the ride. Now time for a clean and fresh start.  We all got to meet and know so many wonderful people through Twones and had an amazing time!  We will probably meet again in the near future.

Thanks to all of you, The Twones Crew

The main goal of Music Hack Day is to explore and build the next generation of music applications. It's a full weekend of hacking in which participants will conceptualize, create and present their projects. Music + software + hardware + art + the web. Anything goes as long as it's music related.

You can register here!

Music Hack Day Amsterdam will be held at Mediamatic on the 24th and 25th of April.

The week after MusicHackDay is The Next Web, if you're already in town maybe this could be interesting!

Participating companies include Spotify, Last.fm. Echonest, Soundcloud, Songkick, RJDJ, 7Digital, MOG and many more!

Today we launched a new and improved version of our Music Bar! We removed essential bugs, improved the usability and added some great new features.

So what’s new?

No install necessary. Without having to install anything Twones now lets you play and shuffle what’s hot on the web. 

Play pages as a playlist. The Music Bar knows which tracks are playable on a webpage and can play them to you as a playlist.

Available for Chrome. Next to FireFox our browser add-on can now also be downloaded for Chrome.

Improved sidebar. The Music Bar now comes with an improved sidebar where you can manage your online music bookmarks and browse your friends’ activity.

More speed and reliability. We achieved major improvements in the speed and reliability of music links so playing music now goes a lot faster! 

Take a look at our renewed homepage where you can browse through a selection of highlighted music sites, see what music people are bookmarking right now and discover what's fresh on the web. There are a lot of new and cool things to be released the coming months so keep watching this blog or follow the latest developments on Twitter

Today we proudly present to you the Music Bar, a light and simple browser add-on via which you can bookmark, share and discover all online music. When installed you can bookmark music on thousands of supported websites, share it with your friends in Twones or on services like Twitter and Facebook, scrobble your online plays to Last.fm and discover new sites with great hand-picked content.

'We've got two of them this week, pizza nights' StartHub Last week Twones got a visit from StartHub.nl, the website that portrays Dutch technology start-ups. StartHub got an exclusive look behind the scenes and grabbed the atmosphere in our office very well. 'It's deadly serious, but it's also serious fun'. Check out the video below (in Dutch) to get an impression of who we are, how our office looks like (sometimes) and to get a sneak preview of our next release. Rock, rock on!

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Last night, Twones got a major update! While we decided to keep this update a bit more quiet than the last one, we still would like to show you what has kept us busy the last weeks. Next to some improvements in the interface of the website we introduced some new features that definitely get us excited. How about you?

Interface First of all we improved the design of the website. We made it the website look slicker, meaner and above all improved the usability of it. Several buttons have been (re)moved to make the site look cleaner. One of the most significant changes is the introduction of the new headers. These headers let you navigate more easy through your own library and show you what’s popular at this moment. Next to this it will give you a better view on where you are on the site. Getting lost within Twones now is a thing from the past.

Better integration with other networks We have worked hard to let Twones integrate better with other platforms. We decided to improve the communication with other networks on several levels which gives you a lot of benefits:

• Find your friends: Since most people discover music via the people they know and trust we made it easier to find your friends on other social networks. From now on you cannot only search for people within Twones but also use your Facebook, Twitter and Google accounts to find even more friends to follow and to share your music with.

• Autoshare: You can now choose to share your shouts and favorites with your friends on Facebook and Twitter. This means that every time you favorite or shout a track it automatically gets shared with your friends on other networks.

• Login with existing accounts: To prevent you from having even more account names and passwords it is now possible to login with your Twitter, Facebook or Google account.

Tracker update In the past we have had some problems with our Twones Tracker not behaving like it should. That is why we have a Tracker update ready for you that will solve all of your previous tracking issues. Finally, we made several major back-end improvements. These may not be clearly visible for all users but will definitely make your Twones experiences a more stable, faster and better one. We have put a lot of effort in this release and we hope you will love just as much as we do.

As always, we like to hear what you think of the improvements so leave your feedback in the comments or on our GetSatisfaction page.

In April 2009 the first Music and Bits event was organized in Amsterdam. Because of the success, the event will see its second edition on Wednesday the 21st of October. Twones is one of the partners and is proud to welcome among others The Hype Machine, SoundCloud and Last.fm as the speakers. Music and Bits

Twones has always been about tracking the streaming web and untill now we have been concentrating our activities on tracking more than twenty big services. But the streaming web has more to offer. There is a huge amounth of music made available on blogs and starting from today, Twones will open up this music to the rest of the world. The Twones Widget Untill now, we've had no means to track all these small music blogs. But now we do! We have developed a Twones Widget that allows individual blog owners and their visitors to see what is being played on their blogs in real-time. As a Twoner, you can follow any individual blog that has the Twones Widget installed, and all your plays will be aggregated to your Twones account. But what is in it for the blog owners? All you blog owners out there can use the Twones Widget to add a social component to your site. It gives your readers the possibility to become more engaged with your site and you can become more involved with your readers too! Also, because the music on your blog is being tracked to Twones-profiles, your music can generate additional traffic to your blog. This way, the Twones gadget is not only a way to discover music, but also to discover blogs. Release We will officially release the Twones Widget late fall 2009 but untill then we have installed it here so we can test it and show you how it works. To start with, we selected some tracks that helped us through the development:

Since our latest major update halfway September, Twones got a lot of attention from the international techpress. Excited about the new beta, several sources even compared us with other successful platforms like Last.fm, Del.ici.ous and Twitter. A quick overview. Wired