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Join "Issues Facing Music 2.0" Discussion
via hypebot by Bruce Houghton on May 14, 2008
PLUS MORE ON "VENTURE CAPITAL TALKS MUSIC"Our recent post The Top 10 Issues Music 2.0 has led to some great comments both here and from several other bloggers. Read the original post a join the discussion here.Attorney Nancy Prager would add a #11 PATRONAGE:"It takes years of hard work to develop a following as a band, touringand luck. So, what new bands really need are patrons a la Medici,...
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Creative Commons' Lawrence Lessig May Run For Congress
via hypebot by Bruce Houghton on February 20, 2008
He has decided to put his efforts behind the emerging Change Congress movement and will decide on his own run in a week or so. More @ Lessig08.org.via Daily SwarmLessig on on change in politics:
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Guest Rebuttal: The Future Of Ad Supported Music
via hypebot by Bruce Houghton on February 25, 2008
... inventory, valuation and revenue. Ad-supported downloaded music is not an Internet application – it is anew and distinct medium. Successful implementations of ad-supporteddownloaded music will dynamically integrate ads into the audio streamof music played from device memory. The Internet is merely the channelfor getting the music and ads into memory. In this way, ad-supported downloaded ...
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New Coldplay Explodes On Last.FM
via hypebot by Bruce Houghton on April 29, 2008
1 PLAY EVERY TWO SECONDS SINCE RELEASELast.fm says the new Coldplay single ‘Violet Hill’ has been listened to 10,000 times in the 5 hours since it was released this morning. That’s 1 play every 2 seconds. The last time a track was listened to this much on Last.fm was ‘15 Step’ from In Rainbows, which clocked up close to 22,000 listens in 12 hours. "It’s a pretty impressive listening...
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Qtrax Inks Universal...It's Real This Time
via hypebot by Bruce Houghton on May 07, 2008
... negotiations it's likely that ad supported P2P Qtrax paid a hefty price for North American access to the world's largest label group.Unlike the first million dollar party announcement in Cannes, yesterday's news came via a quiet release from Universal that said only, "Qtrax will now have access to the most extensive digital music catalogue of chart-topping artists in the world".
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Peter Gabriel's Server Stolen
via hypebot by Bruce Houghton on May 07, 2008
Music and music 2.o impresario Peter Gabriel didn't just have the servers that host several of his ventures hacked; he had them stolen. From his web site:The majority of Real World, Peter Gabriel and WOMAD web services are currently off-line. Our servers were stolen from our ISP's data centre on Sunday night - Monday morning. We are working to restore normal service as soon as...
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WalMart Adds WMG MP3's. Napster May Be Next.
via hypebot by Bruce Houghton on May 07, 2008
The Warner Music Group family of labels has widened its full catalog mp3 offering to include WalMart.com. Previously Amazon was the only North American based download provider with the catalog.Hypebot reported yesterday that WMG was about to broaden its DRM-free program to include other sites. Last month WalMart drop all tracks from WMG, Universal and Sony BMG and took its digital store...
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AIM Issues Digital Copyright Manifesto
via hypebot by Bruce Houghton on May 09, 2008
UK trade group, the Association For Independent Music (AIM) has published "Copyright In the Digital Age," calling for a copyright infrastructure better suited to fit current and future conditions. According to AIM: Digital is fundamentally a format shift which has changed the entire value chain - creation, production, distribution and consumption. Governments need to acknowledge this and...
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Music Sites Choosing Amazon Over iTunes
via hypebot by Bruce Houghton on May 13, 2008
Revenue Hunt & Major Label Demands Drive Partnerships Yesterday Emmis announced a pact with iTunes for downloads from its radio station web sites. The deal is part of a growing trend as music sites search for ways to monetize traffic beyond advertising. But iTunes is increasingly a second choice as Amazon appears poised to finalize a variety of partnerships. Universal mp3 compatibility is a...
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imeem Joins Google's Open Social
via hypebot by Bruce Houghton on May 14, 2008
OPEN SOCIAL NOW REACHES 300 MILLIONDuring the Google Open Social Summit today at the Googlex, imeem is announcing support for OpenSocial via their Media Platform for a third party developers. With the addition of imeem, OpenSocial now reaches over 300 million users. Developers can now port existing OpenSocial applications to imeem, the third largest social networking site in the US with over 24...
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