Our team in Beijing sent this picture over to us…isn’t it great!

Have you passed by an Apple Store window and noticed Midomi? If so, please send us your location and your pics and I’ll be sure to post!

-CatherineG

Love Grateful Dead? Going to the Concert? Midomi is! Thursday May 14th, the legendary “The Dead” will be performing at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA.

Add Grateful Dead songs to the midomi database! Your rendition could end up being featured on midomi.com and even heard when someone searches for Grateful Dead on midomi. Choose a few of these at random:
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Alabama Getaway
And We Bid You Goodnight
Attics of My Life
Beat It On Down the Line
Bertha
Big Boss Man
Big Railroad Blues
Bird Song (Live)
Black Peter
Box of Rain
Brokedown Palace
Brown-Eyed Woman
Candyman
Casey Jones
China Cat Sunflower
Cold Rain and Snow
Cosmic Charlie
Cream Puff War
Cumberland Blues
Dark Star
Dire Wolf
Dupree’s Diamond Blues
Easy Wind
The Eleven
Estimated Prophet
Eyes of the World
Fire On the Mountain
Franklin’s Tower
Friend of the Devil
The Golden Road
Good Lovin’
Good Morning Little School Girl
Grateful Dead
Hard to Handle
He’s Gone
Hell In a Bucket
High Time
Hurts Me Too
I Know You Rider
Iko Iko
Jack Straw
Johnny B. Goode
Mama Tried
Me & Bobby McGee
Me & My Uncle
Morning Dew
Mr. Charlie
New Minglewood Blues
New Speedway Boogie
New, New Minglewood Blues
Not Fade Away
One More Saturday Night
Operator
The Other One
Passenger
Playing in the Band
Promised Land
Ramble On Rose
Ripple
Row Jimmy
Samson And Delilah
Scarlet Begonias
Shakedown Street
Sitting On Top of the World
St. Stephen
Sugar Magnolia
Sugaree
Tennessee Jed
Terrapin Station
Throwing Stones
Till the Morning Comes
Touch of Grey
Truckin’
U.S. Blues
Uncle John’s Band
Viola Lee Blues
Wharf Rat
You Win Again

TiE50 WINNERS: 50 Hottest Startups in 5 Hottest Segments!

The public loves us! The competition was fierce with nearly 1200 highly qualified companies nominated. After grueling rounds of judging and passionate public voting, only ten companies from each the five focus segments were selected as winners.  Melodis Corporation was judged to be an exceptional emerging start up in the Wireless focus segment.

Thanks fans! We owe are success to YOU!

We love bloggers and know they make the world go round, especially when they write great things about the new Midomi app.

Straight from Boston, Will checks out Midomi Ultra and is “newly in love with it”.   Read the entire blog here:  Song Identification iPhone App: Midomi Ultra 2.0

The only major suggestion that Will mentions that we include? “A feature to forcibly remove songs stuck in someone’s head!” Will, we’re working on that function now! It should be perfected in the next 100 years! Love the review buddy, now if only we can travel to Boston for a “company” meetup! I’ll submit my paperwork to HR today…..

Become a fan of Will Hansen’s blog here: http://iphoneapptalk.blogspot.com/

Everyone here from Sunny Cali, says “Thanks Will!”

Want to submit your review of Midomi? Email inquiries to press@midomi.com

http://www.tie50.net/polling/

TiE 50 FinalistsCongratulations to these 150 finalists for the TiE50 awards selected from 1,200 nominees! Each one of these companies was handpicked after a rigorous screening process led by our expert panel of industry judges.

Now, it is your turn to help. Vote below and help select the top 50 startups from this prestigious list - there will be 10 winners in each of the 5 segments.

You can pick up to ten companies across five focus segments. Once you are done, click the submit button at the bottom of the page. Voting closes on May 7, 2009.

Vote now for the hottest 50 emerging companies.

 http://www.tie50.net/polling/

Midomi is a finalist in the 2009 Webware 100 Awards. We can’t win without you.  Click on the link to vote for us…

Go Team Midomi!

Yes, your eyes aren’t fooling you. After a recent trip to the Apple Store in San Jose, I couldn’t help but notice the midomi app icon hanging from the ceiling. The public really does love the app and it shows!

Here at Melodis, we are working on many ways to improve the app and our team takes every user submitted suggestion to heart. Don’t know how to submit feedback? There are many ways!

Twitter: Melodis

Facebook: midomi 

MySpace: midomiRocks

Email: support@midomi.com

midomi Forum

And right here. Comment on midomi blogs!!

Watch out world, midomi just might be on every handset in existance!

KDDI Corporation, Japan’s leading mobile carrier, and SOCKETS Inc., an integrated service, database and embedded solution provider for mobile communications services, will integrate MELODIS’ midomi singing search into LISMO, KDDI’s au mobile music platform. Mobile users will freely sing and accurately and quickly search and discover music using this platform. SOCKETS will coordinate the midomi singing search integration into the LISMO platform.

Yasuyuki Nakajima, Ph.D., General Manager, Media Service Planning Business Department of KDDI, said, “KDDI’s au customers will now have a better way to search for the music they enjoy that’s quick, accurate, and entertaining. MELODIS’ midomi singing search is independent of key, tempo, language, or singing quality, which means our users do not have to be great singers in order for the search to work accurately.”

“The depth and breadth of MELODIS’ music search expertise will enable SOCKETS to integrate and present the industry’s most innovative digital music solution to the Japanese population,” said Kuni Kawashima, Corporate Officer of SOCKETS. “By integrating MELODIS and a slice of the midomi technology into KDDI’s platform, we will provide users with an advanced wireless experience that includes accurate music searches, convenience, and ease of use.”

Fast and Accurate Music Search

midomi singing search is powered by the MELODIS proprietary multimodal adaptive recognition system (MARS), which allows users to easily and intuitively search and discover songs, by singing or humming, in the company’s music database. This technology identifies pitch variation, rhythm information, location of pauses, phonetic content and speech content in user queries, and matches these with songs in the midomi database. Designed to be exceptionally user-friendly, midomi returns highly accurate search results even if the user sings or hums off key, or mispronounces the lyrics.

“We are pleased to be a selected partner for KDDI and SOCKETS, and we see this dual partnership as a stepping stone for creating exciting industry growth and developing new consumer products. MELODIS’ award-winning music search and sound recognition application, midomi singing search, is an ideal product for KDDI, which is also a leading provider of mobile music,” said Keyvan Mohajer, chief executive officer for MELODIS Corporation. “Music search and discovery continues to engage high user participation, and the midomi application can be fully integrated with a carrier’s music strategy to cross market ringtones and music-on-demand services.”

About KDDI Corporation:

au/KDDI is the second largest mobile network in Japan with over 30 million mobile phone subscribers, and a global leader in many areas of technology and services. Based on leading edge technology, KDDI pioneered a variety of wireless services and business models in Japan: mobile music, location-based services, and more. Being the first to introduce flat rate data plans, KDDI forced the competitors to change their business model strategies. KDDI continues to set the agenda in Japan’s hypercompetitive mobile markets. In the fixed line sector, KDDI is one of the first telecom operators globally to convert completely to IP-based operation over a national optical fiber infrastructure. KDDI offers “triple play” (phone, broad band internet and TV) over FTTH, and IP phone over leased copper lines to attack incumbent NTT’s core business models and core income streams. For more information, visit www.kddi.com.

About SOCKETS Inc.:

Established in June 2000, Sockets (formerly Media Socket) is one of the leading companies providing internet service, developing embedded application and database on mobile platforms in Japan.

There are many ways to keep in touch with us at midomi, and now there is one more way. Twitter with us! You can find us at twitter.com/melodis. Become a follower and even respond to some of our Twitter updates! Now keeping up with midomi and Melodis is now easier than ever!

Twitter has just been midomified!

Being able to work at midomi means I get to listen to music all day long. Whether it is finding the next up and coming band to feature, adding user renditions to my very own playlist, or adding new content to midomi.com, my ears drums are constantly dancing to a beat.

Recently I joined the gym along with my sister and my mom.  We lift weights, run a couple miles, and just have fun.  The biggest motivation that keeps me going while working out is a having a great music playlist to listen to.

I like everything from pop music to hard core rap to slow jams. Here are some song suggestions that keep me going and keep me having fun!

Poker Face by Lady Gaga

Sexyback by Justin Timberlake

Blame It by Jamie Foxx

Gasolina by Daddy Yankee

Kiss Me Through the Phone by Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em

That’s Not My Name by The Ting Tings

Womanizer by Britney Spears

Crack a Bottle by Eminem

Walk This Way by Aerosmith

Don’t Phunk with My Heart by Black Eyed Peas

And my Favorite:

Let It Rock by Kevin Rudolf

Remember all of these are available to download from iTunes and Amazon. Start your workout today with these great hits!