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Buzz makes it easy to share a little too much
I love the openness of Americans. It’s endearing, although it can mean listening to an extraordinary amount of information about someone for a first meeting. This can be uncomfortable when the conversation seems to have no context for such openness. In these encounters, it becomes clear that, unlike Brits, many Americans value sharing over privacy.
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Will A Revamped Attitude Make Users Reconsider MySpace?
First reported by TechCrunch and later confirmed by Billboard, MySpace’s new slogan is “Discover and be Discovered”. The strategy was reportedly revealed to employees during a meeting last week at the Los Angeles HQ. The meeting, attended by some 600 employees as well as being broadcast to other offices, was most likely a move to [...]
Muziic Versus Vevo: David and Goliath or Mutually Beneficial?
Streaming music site Muziic launched out of Bettendorf, Iowa by a father and son (who was only 15 at the time) back in February. It originally was a Windows-only desktop application for the use and playlisting of YouTube music videos. On Christmas day it launched a web-based version of the site, which garnered a fair [...]
Exclusive Service Review: ReverbNation Store
Cassandra Callais was lucky enough to be given a special pre-launch tour by Reverb Nations COO Jed Carlson along with the opportunity to review their soon to be launched ReverbNation Store service…
TMV Looks back On Our Predictions to See Where We Were Right and Where We Got It Wrong
Last year saw The Music Void make its first foray into future gazing with our bold (and not so bold) predictions for the music industry in 2009. With no pedigree of clairvoyance to fall back upon, we probably erred on the side of caution at times, but all things considered we acquitted ourselves reasonably well [...]
TMV Exclusive: MusicMetric Enterprise Service Review
MusicMetric has added a new programme to its roster, the Enterprise service, which is an expanded version of the Essentials and Professional services. MusicMetric is a new entrant into music metrics and offers a real-time trend-tracking package that organizes and analyses artists’ online presence and breaks down the online fanbase. Its unique point is it [...]
MySpace Music Is No Spotify Challenger
Mark Mulligan courtesy of paidContentUK examines the difference between the two propositions and there limits…
MySpace today launched its UK music offering, over a year after its US launch.
However tempting it is to position this as a Spotify challenger (and the BBC and many others do) it simply isn’t. It isn’t – both out of [...]
Can You Harness The Power Of Free In Your Business
Fraser Neilson examines the power of Free and how it can be harnessed to work for the music business.
MySpace Music: Going Freemium?
This past week has revealed MySpace to be in quite a slump. First, there has been speculation that MySpace is considering moving to a paid model. According to an interview by paidContent with News Corp. digital chief Jon Miller there is interest in the “freemium” music model. TechCrunch further investigated and is sure free [...]
Lala: From the Bottom of the Barrel to the Crest of the Wave
The only news of Lala in the past year was WMG’s writing down half of its $20 million investment in the site, grimly citing “lower expectations of digital music sales”. But this week introduced three new prospective projects for the streaming site; an iPhone app and deals with Facebook and Google. Lala could soon be [...]
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Billboard.biz- Vevo's Traffic Surge March 11, 2010
- Kings Of Leon Take 'Revenge' On iPhone Gamers March 11, 2010
- 'Green Day: Rock Band' Release Date Set March 11, 2010
- France’s Zimbalam Plants Flag In North America March 11, 2010
- Canadian Music Week: Ole's McCarty Tackles ISPs On Piracy March 11, 2010
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- Cornerstone OnDemand Wins a Bersin & Associates Learning Leaders Award for Its Innovative Social Networking Platform March 12, 2010
- Break the Victorinox code and win £100,000 March 11, 2010
- Enhanced Mobile-Phone Based Dog Tracking From Retrieva Tracking And ViewRanger March 11, 2010
- Twitter Makes Its Red Carpet Debut For Celebrities And Criminals March 10, 2010
- VideoEgg to Present at iMedia Brand Summit 2010 March 10, 2010
Peter Sunde, one of the founders and former spokesperson of BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay, recently debuted a new venture…one that will actually make content owners money instead of bleeding them dry. The project is in the form of a service, called Flattr (get it, like flattering?) that aims to...
Everyone is now well familiar with the story of Spiral Frog and how it buried the ad-supported download model. Reasons given for this are numerous, ranging from reports of blatant mismanagement to non-compatibility with iPods to consumer resistance to being force fed a 60 or 90 second commercial before the...