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MySpace’s Mistake

MySpace recently made a strategic move by starting MySpace Music. This upgrade of MySpace now allows users to access free streams of music by all the major labels and most of the independent labels. To obtain the music from the major labels, MySpace had to sign deals with the labels, giving them roughly 40% ownership [...]

MySpace Mobile

MySpace has revamped their website so that videos will show up on most mobile devices, including the BlackBerry Bold, Palm Centro, Motorola Q9, LG Voyager, Nokia N95 and Samsung Instinct. However, it still will not show up on the Apple iPhone. The other phones have the capacity for streaming videos, which MySpace now allows, but [...]

Pirates

Here is a potentially game-changing technology. A company called Auditude has developed a patented technology that indexes videos across the web and finds the ones that are copyright-infringing. It then places an advertisement on the advertisement so that the content provider and owner can actually make money when someone uses their material without permission. Think [...]

MySpace Ads

MySpace keeps making it easier & easier for small bands to get their names out there. MySpace has now launched a MyAds program that will allow bands to advertise to specific MySpace users based upon location and demographics. Bands will create banner ads and basically compete monetarily against other bands to obtain coveted spots. Another [...]

Myspace Music

MySpace Music is supposedly being launched within the next few weeks. MySpace Music will be a new direction for the well-known music discovery website and will include ad-supported on-demand streaming playlisting. It will also include DRM-free (digital rights management) downloads powered by Amazon that will allow the downloads to go right into iTunes. MySpace Music [...]

MySpace Artist Deal

Here is a story about a brilliant move on the part of MySpace. MySpace Records is about to sponsor their first artist for a nation-wide tour. The artist is Kate Voegele and the deal connects MySpace with Kate Voegele and the University of Phoenix. The way the deal will work is that the University of [...]

Facebook vs. Myspace

Last month, I blogged about the user numbers between Myspace & Facebook. I don’t think looking at the numbers is all that necessary since it is quite obvious that Facebook is quickly taking the cake from Myspace, but nonetheless, it is interesting. Here are the numbers for Facebook and Myspace for the month of June [...]

MySpace

I went to a BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) sponsored event in Atlanta a few nights ago. It was organized by a good friend of mine who works at BMI. There were 5 bands that played at this particular showcase. Before each act would start playing, my BMI friend would come up to me and say [...]