(UPDATED) Flowd  launches in the US as a social network for music. The free service enables musicians to engage directly with fans by building a customized community on its mobile platform. Here's a video of how one band is using Flowd.  We'll explore Flowd in a future post, but what do you think? 

• ONE TO WATCH: Joichi "Joi“ Ito, chairman of the Creative Commons board of directors and executive director of the MIT Media Lab joins the advisory board of restorm.com, a promising open licensing platform set to launch in the fourth quarter.
• Ex-Hello Music president John Boyle has joined the advisory board of VoxPop Worldwide.  Vox Pop is a digital distributor and new media technology holding company chaired by former WMG and Virgin exec Phil Quartararo.

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