Press
October 8, 2008
Seeq and destroy
"They’ve been king of the hill for a while, but SeeqPod’s new playlist function — users can create their own playlists or search for ones they might like— would have been a Muxtape killer anyway."
September 12, 2008
MindKit Reads Your Mind
"From what I've seen, this is a must-have tool for any media freak."
August 7, 2008
The Weekend Guide
"Make online playlists of all your favorite music, no downloads necessary. And it’s legal."
July 22, 2008
Three Hot Mixtape Services That Are Remaking the Art Form
"[Favtape] is powered by the Seeqpod API, which must be one of the most popular APIs on the web lately."
July 16, 2008
Daniel Goldbloom's "Click Here" webpicks: SeeqPod for music and Nirvana The Band The Show for laughs
"The Internet is full of sites that stream music and videos, but nobody does it better than SeeqPod."
July 9, 2008
Berkeley Lab Wins Four Prestigious 2008 R&D 100 Awards for Technology Advances
"Four of R&D Magazine's prestigious R&D 100 Awards for 2008, which recognize the 100 most significant proven technological advances of the year, have gone to researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and their colleagues [including SeeqPod]."
July 6, 2008
Listening Post's Top 10 Hottest Music Sites
"Imagine a big, invisible net that could haul in all of the fish that are hiding under various rocks and crags of the world's oceans ... except the fish stay just where they are, despite the fact that you get as many fish as you want... That's basically what SeeqPod does for music."
July 3, 2008
SeeqPod Offers Daily Lists for Discovering Web Audio
"Roaming today's Web for video, music, and podcasts can seem overwhelming. . . SeeqPod says it feels our pain. The site now offers suggested play lists for Web audio that it calls 'PodLists'. At the top today is 'Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Rock Songs of All Time.' It's the magazine's list of timeless hit songs, and a click on each title starts it playing. Much fun."
June 30, 2008
Seeqpod and Songza, the first ASE podcast!
"The topic was music alternative search engines, and we selected two of the best. We discussed Google vs. alternative search engines; why use these search engines for your listening needs instead of just going to the big 'G?' Is Google always better for music searches?"
June 27, 2008
Multimedia Search Engine Created in Lawrence Berkeley Labs Shows Dramatic Growth
"Seeqpod CEO Kasian Franks recognized the need for a multimedia search engine and applied it to music and video. Seeqpod's search results, or discovery results, can be watched, listened to, and read."
June, 2008
Robert Scoble on the Best iPhone Applications
"Try SeeqPod.com to find some interesting new music. It works great on my iPhone and is fun to play with."
March 15, 2008
DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT: SEARCH WARRANTED?
"Capabilities like these have generated SeeqPod 'millions' of search queries per month, according to CEO Kasian Franks. The company provides the back-end technology to other music search engines like Songza and Songerize, and its iPhone plug-in is one of the more popular music applications for the device."
March 12, 2008
Seeqpod provides playable event guide for SXSW
"The SXSW music and media conference showcases hundreds of musical acts from around the globe on over eighty stages in downtown Austin. Seeqpod is there and is providing a playable search event guide for those of us not able to attend!"
March 6, 2008
Web Tools to Free - Your Inner DJ
"Music search engines work like Google and Yahoo, except that they look specifically for audio recordings on Web sites, including personal pages and blogs. Examples include SeeqPod..."
February 18, 2008
Major Label Fights Google-ization of Music With SeeqPod Lawsuit
"SeeqPod's easy because you go to the website, type in the band name, and a bunch of songs pop up,' says Sarah Shvil, a self-described 'music fan 24/7.' She adds: 'You can figure out instantly whether you like the band or not.'"
July 2, 2008
SeeqPod, 'playable' music search
"Combining the elements of music search, recommendation, and playability sets SeeqPod apart from recommendation engines like Pandora and Last.fm."
January 21, 2008
SeeqPod IPhone Button Allows Instant Access to Free Music
"... the addition of the SeeqPod icon -- which can be dragged around the iPhone screen to wherever you want it -- really drives home the notion that SeeqPod lets you turn the entire internet into your own personal iPod."
January 18, 2008
Songza Adds More Songs With Help From SeeqPod
"Today Songza just got bigger by embracing one of its rivals. The music-search engine is incorporating song search results from SeeqPod..."
December 18, 2007
Seeq and ye shall find
"So, streaming music-much of it you actively seek by title, artist, or album-delivered for free to your Internet-connected iPod touch, iPhone, or computer. Very cool."
September 2007
Blender's 'Hot 100' Number 27. Killer App - SeeqPod
"You're strolling through the park with your new love (by which we mean your iPhone) and you desperately need to hear some live Arcade Fire - but you don.t have any loaded. Not to fret: Just surf on over to SeeqPod.com, an MP3 search engine with a slick iPhone interface, and let the streaming begin."
August 29, 2007
Website of the Day: SeeqPod
"searched for the most random songs and it found all of them, providing tons of results for each search query! You can even watch related videos, ringtones, artist profiles, concert tour dates news and more."
August 29, 2007
Is a niche search engine the right choice?
"The technology used to conduct the searches is also available to ad networks and social networks to improve the user experience by better targeting what they want."
August 9, 2007
Eight (and a half) free Web music players
"Since it's casting a wide net, SeeqPod provides the best results of any of the programs in this list."
"The intuitive interface and speed of SeeqPod are what sets it apart..."
July 26, 2007
SeeqPod Music and Recommendation Search Engine
"The homepage is reminiscent of Google's original unadorned page with just a simple search form. The vital difference, is that SeeqPod also displays a sample of current music being indexed by its engine. These songs are meant to draw you in, and succeed at it. There's something mesmerising about watching track after track scroll by."
July 12, 2007
Play The Internet's Hidden Music on your IPhone For Free
"David Byrne has more than just good song titles, he also has some interesting thoughts on digital music, DRM, and search..."
"A site called SeeqPod could be the part of the genesis of what Byrne's talking about (although it's free to use)."
June 15, 2007
The Search Engine of the Day: SeeqPod
"They have embraced the term 'Playable Search'. They decided to apply their sophisticated technology to music and video search so that anyone, anywhere, can search the Web for media that is publicly available, yet not always easy to find."