SoundCloud is now allowing users to edit music and video on the fly through their computer or through your mobile phone. Up until now SoundCloud has done a pretty incredible job of attracting well known artists to its platform such as The Foo Fighters, Kylie, Deadmau5, Moby and Caribou, who have used it to effectively socialise their music. But today Soundcloud releases the ability to record sound direct via the site, and via it’s updated iPhone app. That puts it into the realm of pure audio sharing platforms such as Cinch and Audioboo. In other news SoundCloud has also passed two million users.
Alexander Ljung, CEO and founder of SoundCloud is cleary aiming for a much bigger market than musicians when he says “SoundCloud gives them the platform to create and share anything from personal audio messages and blogs, to poetry, comedy and the sounds of the world around them.”
Over the past couple years we have heard that the cloud is the future of productivity and savings for everyone. Today, Google is launching a brand new plugin for Microsoft Office called Cloud Connect. Cloud Connect will tie Google Docs directly into the ubiquitous productivity suite, free of charge.