Local Web Start-Up Amie.St to Demo at July 12th Geek Dinner
Posted by Jack
Providence Geeks regular and Amie Street CEO Elliot Breece and his partners will be presenting their brand-new (pre-beta, baby) and very promising social network/music distribution service at the July 12th Geek Dinner. Don’t miss it! (RSVP here)
Amie Street is a social network that empowers musicians to release, and fans to discover, new and independent music in a marketplace where the community decides the price. Our company is built on two fundamental beliefs: first, the long tail of the market for digital content is best mediated by a community pricing mechanism; and second, online social networks, with the proper functionality, serve as ideal mechanisms for discovering and flagging relevant media. The company’ s first product is an online community and marketplace for music (including ring tones generated from music in our marketplace) in which song prices start out at zero and are then determined by their demand among members. We address the difficulties inherent in sorting through the vast array of user-provided content available by a system of “RECs,” units of recommendation, which encourages and facilitates the flagging of the best of our content.
