midemblog roundup : This week’s top posts

Martyn Davies: midem hack day wants your ideas! Want your fab app/site/service idea created by a crew of top developers at midem? Hack Day coorganiser Davies picks 5 top examples

Neil Vineberg: How ThingLink is reviving the album cover. Acclaimed startup ThingLink is putting album art back in the spotlight, by making it interactive. CMO Vineberg explains why.

Interview with Brenden Mulligan: The making of Onesheet. This summer, entrepreneur & midemblog regular Mulligan created an "insanely simple" D2F tool for artists. He tells all, here...

Martin Frascogna: The 4 keys to D2F success. For entertainment lawyer & midem speaker Frascogna, four guidelines are to be respected to make money from direct-to-fan projects.

Meet midemlab’s 2012 finalists! Part 1: Music Discovery, Recommendation & Creation. Here are the 10 finalists of our startup competition's first category. The next Soundcloud, Songkick or Discovr could well be in here...

Kristin Thomson: The New Power Trio: Bands, Brands and Revenue. The Future of Music Coalition recently asked 5000 artists how they make money. An exclusive heads-up before the data is revealed at midem.