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Eliot Van Buskirk posted some kind words about myZOOZbeat at Wired’s EPICENTER blog.  Check it out.

ZOOZ Mobile Introduces Global Music Sharing, Dances to New Latin Beats

The press release:

Atlanta, GA – ZOOZ Mobile, Inc., developers of the first mobile music studio, ZOOZbeat, today announced the availability of myZOOZbeat.com and ZOOZbeat Latin as part of a major upgrade to its popular ZOOZbeat product family.  myZOOZbeat.com enables users to save the music they create with ZOOZbeat on the iPhone and iPod Touch as MP3s, and share them using Facebook® and Twitter®.  Users can also listen to songs uploaded by their friends, and to special featured and recent songs from users around the world. The company also announced the availability of ZOOZbeat Latin, which allows the creation of songs with Samba and Tejano rhythms, just in time for Cinqo de Mayo.

ZOOZbeat is a gesture-based mobile music studio, simple enough for non-musicians and children to immediately become musically expressive, yet rich enough for experienced musicians to push the envelope of mobile music creation. The new offerings are the next generation of the company’s integrated web and mobile music studio for creating, manipulating and sharing music.  ZOOZbeat Latin lists on the iTunes™ AppStore for $0.99; version 2.0 of ZOOZbeat Classic, containing Pop, Hip-hop and Techno beats, lists for $2.99.

“Our early users requested new Latin beats, plus the ability to save their music as MP3s,” said Dr. Gil Weinberg, ZOOZ Mobile’s Founder and Chief Technology Officer.  “We spent the last several months creating the new beats, improving responsiveness, and building myZOOZbeat.com. Now users can save their music as MP3’s and share it with their friends on Facebook and Twitter.”

”The company’s first products were made available on the iTunes AppStore in November, 2008,” said Scott Geller, the company’s new CEO. “Since then there have been over 1,000,000 downloads of ZOOZbeat products.  Response to the highly acclaimed music applications and content has been wildly enthusiastic.  So we’re excited to introduce our next iteration, which is better than ever.  We’re sure this version will encourage adults and children, musicians and non-musicians alike to express themselves through music, right from their mobile devices.”

Scott Geller to Head ZOOZ Mobile

The press release:

Atlanta, GA – ZOOZ Mobile, Inc., developers of the first mobile music studio, ZOOZbeat, has added Scott Geller to its executive team.  Mr. Geller, one of Atlanta’s leading entrepreneurs, took the reins of the company as CEO and made an investment in the company at that time. His goal is for the company to broaden its audience and product portfolio in order to achieve its vision of enabling everyone, anywhere, to express themselves musically.
In addition to being a musician in his own right, Mr. Geller is a 25-year veteran of the technology industry and a serial entrepreneur with a highly successful track record for growing companies and providing superior investor returns.  He was most recently CEO of Invistics, a venture-backed software and services company.  Prior to that he was a co-founder and the first CEO of TechBridge, a non-profit organization helping Metro Atlanta nonprofits utilize technology to improve operations.  Mr. Geller was also Founder and CEO of 2order.com, a developer of web-based sales software, and of Business Systems Design, a systems integration company.  He started his career in the consulting practice of Ernst & Young after receiving an MS in Computer Science from UCSD and a BS in Economics from the Wharton School.
“Atlanta is the perfect place to build the next great new media company,  as it’s a center for  hip-hop and contemporary music and the home of Georgia Tech’s Center for Music Technology,” said Mr. Geller. “There is amazing technology and a brilliant team behind this compelling application and content delivery platform. Anyone can use it –it’s so accessible, so fun.  And it really brings out the creativity in everyone, from professionals to music enthusiasts, and even children.  There’s a great future for ZOOZ, and I’m excited to be part of its growth and success.”