MusicLink

Web Hosted Streaming Music Service

Tristan Harward, Prescott Nasser

Sherman Lee, Christopher Fan

What Our Service Provides

Web Hosting for MP3 Music Upload MP3 audio/music content to the web Our service maintains the backend requirements

Web Streaming Music Player Seamless integration into an existing homepage High fidelity music streaming player Full music player playback features

Key Services

Song Sharing Mechanism Share key song information (lyrics, artist, album) Associate uploaded songs with songs of similar

Artists/Genres/Types through social tagging

Music Player Visual Customization Select from pre-designed music skins Visually incorporate music player into homepage Fully customizable skin designer for advanced

users

Target Audience Demographics

Age: 15-30 Language: English Technology Familiarity: Basic knowledge of

html and webpage building skills Web Presence: Has a personal

homepage/website or would like to create one Motivation: Have musical content they wish to

share through their webpage Example: A local band has a personal

webpage used to publicize their music

Meet Ted

What’s so special about Ted?

Technology Familiarity: Basic knowledge of internet interactions Uses some website services like MySpace,

facebook, flickr, etc. Has an iPod and is familiar with iTunes interface for

uploading music from the computer to the portable player

Frequently rips MP3s from CDs He’s the lead guitarist of the band “Ruby’s Pearl”

Ted’s Key Motivations

Limited knowledge of Web Programming

Ted depends on his friend Joe to maintain the band’s website

Goal: Ted would like a more active role in customizing the appearance and the content available on his band’s website

Ted’s Objectives

Ted has uploaded two of his favorite songs

The songs currently have no annotations, and Ted would like to provide missing information such as the album name, the performing artists, key lyrics etc.

Ted would also like to provide his personal commentary about what is so special about the songs

Ted finally wants to share the songs he has uploaded with other songs having similar tags

Manage Songs Page

Adding Song Annotation

Adding Song Commentary

Sharing Songs through Tags

Sharing Songs through Tags

Home Screen

Thank You

Questions?