Youphonics: Aidan Nulman launches e-jam software

Aidan Nulman is one busy young man, or should I say entrepreneur? Developer? Highly-followed Twitterer? Whatever the term, remember his name: pretty soon you’ll be hearing it everywhere.

Following the break-up of his band as a consequence of his travels and subsequent move to Toronto, Nulman hatched a plan. His goal? To develop a software that would enable musicians to jam miles apart via a cloud-based server, where users would first upload clips ("stems" in Youphonics language) and wait for bandmates, friends or strangers to collaborate by adding more stems to the original sound clip.

As of July 1st, his vision became reality. Youphonics.com launched at the beginning of the month and has been receiving rave reviews from tech nerds and gadget websites worldwide. While writing this piece, I found links to articles originating as far away as Saudi Arabia. The multitude of positive critiques are hailing Nulman as the Mark Zuckerberg (founder of Facebook) of the musical social-networking world and are comparing Youphonics to Google Wave in terms of streaming online collaboration.

The software is still in it’s start-up stages, but Nulman has great hopes for Youphonics. The site already has a strong community feel with social profiling, comments and "like" options. Its creator only plans on adding more social integration options and having the software grow.