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No Online Presence
What happens when a company, band, artist, etc. does not maintain an online presence? Well, let’s look at what happened just last week. Most people have seen the musical sensation of Susan Boyle as she sang on “Britain’s Got Talent” and amazed a skeptical crowd. The performance was all over YouTube and estimates are that [...]
Twitter Quitter?
A recent report by Nielsen Online stated that Twitter may have some trouble in the near future. The trouble may come in the fact that Twitter only has a one-month retention rate of 30-40%, meaning after users have signed up, only 30-40% are still using the service by the following month. This contrasts with a [...]
MySpace Playlist Sharing
A new development out of MySpace will have big implications for musicians. MySpace is now allowing artist to publish and share their playlists on a number of different social networking sites. Some of the majors include LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. Artists can also spread their album cover pages to these sites, as well as to [...]
Facebook vs. MySpace
Facebook is really starting to take off internationally. I’ve noticed it just in friend requests I have recently received from contacts in Poland, Mexico, Egypt, and Peru. In total, Facebook now has 200 million users around the world. This compares to 130 million users around the globe for MySpace. MySpace continues to boast a larger [...]
South American Music Downloads
There is some interesting news coming out of Argentina and Brazil regarding music downloads. In Argentina, a wireless carrier has just begun selling song downloads wirelessly and on their website. In Brazil, a website called Discografa was taken down because it had over 1 million users illegally sharing music files. But here is the really [...]
Social Networking vs. Email
Are you noticing more and more of your time being spent on Facebook as opposed to Gmail? If so, you are not alone. A recent study from Nielsen concluded that Social Networking Sites have participation levels of 67% compared to email’s 65%. This is the first time that social networking sites have overtaken email’s importance. [...]
MuxTape Re-emergence
MuxTape, who shut down under pressure from the RIAA late last year, has re-emerged in a “legal” format. MuxTape hit the industry by storm by offering the ability to create “mixed tapes” online and share them with friends. The site would gather songs located around the internet to supply content for these mixed online playlists. [...]
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 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 [...]
Mind the Gap
The United Kingdom retailer HMV has just released the beta form of a site called Get Closer (www.getcloser.com). What this site does is allow you to upload your entire iTunes collection and then the site will tell you what you are missing in order to complete your collection per artist. To fill in the gap. [...]
