Apple and Google made major music announcements this week. Apple finally rolled out iTunes Match and Google made Google Music available to everyone and opened up a Music Store. Amazon started shipping the Kindle Fire.
Google Music
- Google Music is open for business (The Official Google Blog)
- How To Properly Set Up Google Music (Lifehacker)
- Don’t be too disappointed by Google Music’s lackluster debut (TechCrunch)
- Google Music Q&A on Quora
The introductory video from Google:
 iTunes Match
- iTunes Match: Thousands of songs with a couple of hitches (NPR – All Songs Considered Blog)
- iTunes Match: What you need to know (Macworld)
- Secrets & Features of iTunes Match (iLounge)
- Check your music’s iCloud status (Macworld)
- How to use iTunes Match with very large libraries (> 25,000 songs) (MacRumors)
- iTunes Match Q&A on Quora
iDownloadBlog.com created this iTunes Match Ultimate Walkthrough.
Kindle Fire
Amazon shipped the Kindle Fire earlier this week. Kevin Tofel from GigaOm has a good write-up on the mixed reviews for this product.
Positive reviews:
- Kindle Fire review: Yes, it’s that good (MSNBC)
- Kindle Fire is no iPad killer but it’s a killer device (Any Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times)
- Amazon Kindle Fire Review (Engadget)
Negative reviews:
- Is this really the tablet everyone’s talking about? (WIRED)
- A human review of the Kindle Fire (Marco.org)
Other news this week
- Google’s Lab of Wildest Dreams (a.k.a. Google X)Â (New York Times)
- Google+ Pages can now be managed with 3rd party apps (Mashable)
- Netflix to resurrect Arrested Development in 2013 (The Next Web)
- Skype desktop app now makes Facebook video calls (CNET)
- Facebook employees go nuts as Zuckerberg tells them the IPO is coming (Business Insider)
- No one’s noticing Twitter’s ad experiment, which is a good thing (Atlantic Wire)
- Amazon KindlePhone for 2012? (All Things D)
- How Facebook is ruining sharing (Molly Wood/CNET) and Robert Scoble’s rebuttal: The Facebook Freaky Line