April 2009
What's Wrong with Facebook? When Strategy Fails to... →
Over the last few weeks, Facebook has been rolling out its latest redesign. Within days of the first changes, a polling application on Facebook showed that 94% of the 634,484 users who took the…
Dealzmodo: 1'46" of Silence By John Cage, Free... →
I’d like to kiss whoever at Apple decided to do this: today’s free iTunes “discovery download” is the first movement of avant-garde composer John Cage’s 4’33”, which is to say, it’s 1:46 of
Analysis: Mixing Downloads With Streams →
Combining a streaming service with a paid download store is more complicated that simply adding one product offering to another.
The 6 stages of Twitter media coverage hell →
The mainstream media drags us all through 6 stages of coverage hell with every truly major Internet phenomenon. It happened with the Internet itself, then e-mail, then the Web, then the tech bubble,…
Stealing Music: Is It Wrong Or Isn’t It? →
Music used to be so simple. You listened to it on the radio for free, but you didn’t get to say what would be played, and there were lots of commercials. If you went to a concert, you paid. And…
Rick’s Picks 5th Anniversary is today
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Rick’s Picks 5th Anniversary is today
Today is March 31, 2009 and it is our 5th anniversary. I’m proud of what we’ve done in this time and so excited about what lies ahead. In a few days,…
Why Google's free music deal in China is so... →
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I have mentioned Google’s music-related activities in China a few times during the past 2 years; and just yesterday this topic seems to have heated up…
Welcome to Digital Music 2.0 →
There have been many engaging conversations around Nettwerk these past few months about artist web pages. Some of them have been ironic due to the topic being centered around control of content and…
Troubled SeeqPod Files For Bankruptcy Protection →
SeeqPod, the popular “playable media” search service that many music sites use as the foundation for their core offering, has filed a petition for Chapter 11 yesterday with the U.S. Bankruptcy…
March 2009
MusicMetric Launches MuZoid Twitter Music App →
Music industry analysis firm MusicMetric has launched MuZoid, a Twitter music exploration application. Send a tweet with the name of a band or artist to twitter.com/muzoid and in…
"Free" Thinker: Tuncore's Jeff Price →
As part of a week long exploration into the meaning and value of
“free”, Hypebot asked some of the music industry’s most forward
thinkers about the value and future of free music and…
Google Starts Music Service In China With WMG,... →
In conjunction with Chinese music site Top100.cn, Google has launched an online music service in China. Users can download and save free songs from Warner Music Group, Sony,…
The Ning Controversy Reflects Why Web Platforms... →
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MusicMetric Launches MuZoid Twitter Music App →
Music industry analysis firm MusicMetric has launched MuZoid, a Twitter music exploration application. Send a tweet with the name of a band or artist to twitter.com/muzoid and in seconds…
"Free" Thinker: Tuncore's Jeff Price →
As part of a week long exploration into the meaning and value of “free”, Hypebot asked some of the music industry’s most forward thinkers about the value and future of free music and it’s…
Lala Gets A Fresh Coat Of Paint, Still Rocks →
Tonight music-streaming service Lala will be rolling out a number of improvements to its homepage and integrated music player. While the site has had a clean feel since its relaunch last…
Skype for iPhone: It's Real, and It's Spectacular →
I had about 3 story options on my plate to write about tonight. But I found myself constantly returning to the iTunes store and searching for Skype, over and over again. Finally, there it…
Industry Moves: Twitter Hires Google's Head... →
When Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Design Lead Douglas Bowman quit in somewhat of a huff two weeks ago, he hinted that he had something else lined up. Turns out, according to a report by Spencer Ante,…
Google Ventures officially sets sail →
So it looks like the recent rumors were right — Google just officially launched its highly-anticipated venture capital fund, Google Ventures. The new entity, in the works for a while now,…
3 Free Ways to Geolocate By IP →
Dating websites don’t have anything on you now. Convert an Internet user’s current IP address (like 208.75.242.38) to a city name, or even geo coordinates with these IP lookup APIs. And do it…
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COTT To Collect For EMI Music Publishing UK →
The Copyright Music Organisation of Trinidad and Tobago (COTT) has reached a deal with EMI Music Publishing UK to become its collection society on the islands.
Sean Moriarty Resigns From Ticketmaster... →
Nearly two months after Ticketmaster Entertainment and Live Nation announced plans to merge, the fate of Sean Moriarty, president and CEO of the Ticketmaster division, has been revealed. The company…
Lighting: Handblown Wall Sconces →
From Janet & Francesca:
For the design voyeur, or for those who collect light fixtures as art pieces: two of our favorite glass artists have come out with handblown sconces.
Above:…
Google Launches Free, Legal Music Downloads in... →
Wired is reporting that Google has a launched a new music download service in China to better compete with the leading search company there, Baidu.com. Offering some 350,000 songs, a number set to…
Turn off shuffle: 25 albums best played from start... →
There’s reason behind the order a talented record producer places an album’s tracks, and here’s twenty-five great examples of why in some cases, it’s best to leave ‘shuffle’ off.
Announcing Digg Dialogg with Trent Reznor →
I’m honored to announce music icon Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails (NIN) as our next guest. I will be asking him the top questions as submitted and voted on by the Digg community. Submit and vote for…
Radiohead Collectors Edition Albums →
If you somehow have managed not to grab a copy of one of Radiohead’s first three albums, or are simply a completist super-fan, you’ll want to check out these new… Visit Uncrate for the…
The Pirate Bay adds file sharing to Facebook →
The Pirate Bay is setting its sails toward Facebook. The Swedish peer-to-peer file sharing site now offers a link allowing users to share their downloads on the popular social…
Coldplay, Beasties, Tool Headlining All Points... →
Coldplay, Tool and the Beastie Boys will headline the second annual All Points West Music & Arts Festival, to be held July 31- Aug. 2 at Liberty State Park in New Jersey, just across the Hudson River…
BMI Unveils Mobile Music Predictions →
Performing rights group BMI has released 2009 sales predictions for the mobile music market.
Google Launches Free, Legal Music Downloads in... →
Wired is reporting that Google has a launched a new music download service in China to better compete with the leading search company there, Baidu.com. Offering some 350,000 songs, a number set to…
Canon Adopting dSLR Chips for a New Pro Camcorder?... →
There’s a rumor afoot suggesting that Canon will be ditching CCD and adopting CMOS chips for a new pro-level camcorder. Digital cameras and camcorders never been so indistinguishable. If the…
Google Starts Music Service In China With WMG,... →
In conjunction with Chinese music site Top100.cn, Google has launched an online music service in China. Users can download and save free songs from Warner Music Group, Sony,…
Canon Adopting dSLR Chips for a New Pro Camcorder?... →
There’s a rumor afoot suggesting that Canon will be ditching CCD and adopting CMOS chips for a new pro-level camcorder. Digital cameras and camcorders never been so indistinguishable. If the…
EMI is screwed. Utterly screwed. →
An article on All Things Digital caught my eye this morning. At face value, it’s just another one of those reports about people coming and going at the top end of the major record labels. Douglas…
Google Launches Free, Legal Music Downloads in... →
BEIJING (Reuters) - Google on Monday launched free downloads of licensed songs in China, while sharing advertising revenue with major music labels in a market rife with online piracy. Lee Kai-Fu,…
The Classicist: Hackett & Aston Martin Race to... →
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This is a big year for both famed British auto marque Aston Martin and one of our favorite brands, classic …
Skype for iPhone Arrives Tuesday [IPhone] →
First a rumor, now a confirmed launch—Skype is bringing its VoIP client to the iPhone (and iPod touch) App Store tomorrow, with BlackBerrys following in May. Big drawbacks—only works…
Google China Signs Big Music For Free MP3 Search... →
Google China has taken the beta label off its dedicated, free MP3 search engine now that the local Google branch announced deals with all four major music labels (Warner, Universal, EMI and Sony)…
Streamzy Done Streaming, Up For Sale On eBay →
Now that popular music streaming service SeeqPod has decided to sell its source code to developers to spawn more clones, one of the media search startups that built upon its API is apparently…
How Would You Respond to an RIAA/MPAA Warning? →
How Would You Respond to an RIAA/MPAA Warning
Could laid off Microsoft workers spark a new... →
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Report: Spotify to sell music downloads via... →
An article in the Financial Times this morning claims that streaming music service Spotify is looking for a new way to make money - selling downloads. It’ll be via a partnership with download…
Skype May Be The Biggest Winner From The Web 2.0... →
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Music video jukebox powered by Tweets →
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-3-29) →
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Jimi Hendrix (1)
The Jackson 5 (1)
Jerry Butler (1)
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Spiceworks Adds Social Media Widgets To IT... →
IT software maker Spiceworks has developed a set of customized plugins and widgets in a variety of categories for the Spiceworks desktop. Spiceworks’ ad-supported, free IT management…