LocaModa and Touch Tunes are doing the nasty together and plan on having a monster love child. The idea is to hook up to 30,000 jukeboxes to social networks, allowing them to be controlled remotely by cell phones. The partnership allows users to let their handsets interact with flat panel screens powered by TouchTunes jukebox’s media server.
Social networks will display all interactions as data feeds. Online users can view and participate at their favorite locations. Is this taking social networks too far? Where does it all end? I don’t know, but it looks like that Jukebox is in the middle of a Bermuda triangle type deal. Hope it doesn’t disappear.
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cell phones, jukebox, LocaModa, Touch Tunes
Playing your favorite songs when you’re out at a bar is an inherently social activity — you and your friends are talking about and choosing music genres and selections on the jukebox (the original social network dynamic). Now add access to mobile marketing and new music information…even the chance to participate in promotions like trivia contests, design your own car, pick your favorite drink, get text message updates or find out where the closest fast food chain is…. this is social networking…community building in “Real Space” rather than just a virtual “MySpace.” Think of it as Juke 2.0 and companies like Ecast, TouchTunes and others are leveraging this familiar platform to bring new and innovative ideas to people outside of the home every day.