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MySpace faces rejection, internal dissent in hiring music venture CEO (Tech Confidential - The Note)
MySpace Inc.'s search for a new CEO to run the MySpace Music joint venture has hit a number of snags, not the least of which is that its preferred candidates have declined the job.
Y Combinator's Popcuts Pays You To Find Good New Music
For example, the band My First Earthquake has decided to pay out 30% of its revenues to its fans. The earliest adopters (say, the first dozen people to buy the song) will break even after the song has been purchased by around 25 other people.
Dell Planning New MP3 Player, Subscription Service
One specific thing made me wince when I read that Dell is working on a new MP3 player (a second stab at the market). I'm fine with a new Dell player. There is certainly room for more MP3 players, although I think the odds that Dell is going to either grow
50 Steps to Establishing a Consistent Social Media Practice
You’ve told the boss that you’re going to implement social media stuff for your organization, and in your mind, you’ve decided that means an account on Twitter and a blog.
Long Tail... of Love
As usual Seth brings clarity and illumination to this often misunderstood notion. He recently posted a dissection of the three "profit pockets" within the Long Tail, which he illustrated like this
Startup Entrepreneurship links
Page of great links to entrepreneurship articles
£30 annual ‘tax’ for unlimited music downloads in biggest attack yet on internet pirates | Vladd’s view of the World
Moves to revolutionise music downloading were unveiled today, including a plan for an annual fee for the right to copy unlimited tracks from the internet.
Songness Tests Your Hit Potential
New music discovery site Songness attempts to predict how users will rate a song.
Approaching the Zettabyte Era [Visual Networking Index] - Cisco Systems
"Approaching the Zettabyte Era" is part of the Cisco Visual Networking Index, an ongoing initiative to track and forecast the impact of visual networking applications.
Universal, Sky to Offer Music Subscription Plan
Universal Music Group (UK and Ireland) and British Sky Broadcasting, the satellite television operator that also offers broadband Internet access, will launch by the end of the year an unnamed venture that will offer music subscriptions to Sky customers
Digital Media Insider Podcast: One Glorious Note
In many ways, music technology has become a silly numbers game. Today's digital instruments are sold on gigabytes of samples, kilohertz of frequency response, and ever-rising bit depth, polyphony, and even more esoteric specs.
Record Labels Are Not Venture Capitalists
Venture firms and record companies invest their time and money into a third party with the intent of making a (large) return on their investment. However, there are more differences in their traditional approaches to investing than similarities.
Napster: Worth More Dead Than Alive?
Its stock? How does a 95 percent nosedive in the last six years grab you?
The Day the Music Dies
This fall customers of the now-defunct MSN Music Store, Microsoft’s abortive attempt to compete with iTunes, will be in for a nasty surprise: They will no longer be able to transfer their music to new computers.
Techdirt: EU Plans To Extend Copyright; Turns Copyright System Into Welfare For Musicians
Just as we feared, the EU has now approved copyright extension of performance royalties from 50 years to 95 years. This is basically an approval to steal from the public.
Radiohead "House of Cards" and Creative Commons
Exciting for Creative Commons is that the data (although not the music) used to produce this music video are being made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License on the Google Code site
New music markets to trounce CD sales
AS CD SALES PLUNGE, the mobile device music market soars according to a new report by research outfit Emarketer which claims that music on mobile devices will be a $7.3 billion industry by 2011
NARM Calls For Fixed Release Dates
NARM has issued a strong call for common release dates across digital and physical retailers in an attempt to protect its core brick and mortar membership. [Idiots - Dubber]
New Music Strategies: How TPM can lead to DRM
Very interesting article from Bill Thompson about how TPMs - Trusted Platform Modules - which are aimed at making your computer more secure from viruses and theft at a hardware level - may end up restricting what we can do with the media on our PC.
Find a Place to Crash, That's Better Than the Van
If you recall services like Couchswap, then you’ll appreciate a new, similar service called Better Than the Van. It’s a niche “couch swap” search engine that’s designed for band members on tour.
Weezer write song online with fans
Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo has written a new song, 'Turnin' Up The Radio'', with the help of fans
Warner Bros. LP+CD Bundle a Clever Twist
he new album by the reunited early '70s band that features Tom Petty, Warner Bros. has released two versions. The CD package will contain an album remastered for the "realities of the marketplace," which means it has the sort of loud, compressed sound tha
The Shins set to self-release next album
After three albums released through Sub Pop, The Shins are going out on their own to put out their fourth LP.
Illegal downloads: the solution
Young people are prepared to pay for the music they love - but only if offered the services they want. Here's how the industry can change
EMI Grabs Priceless BBC Archives; Two-Way Deal
The RIAA has quietly dropped a two-year file-swapping lawsuit, a development that intensifies questions related to its methods for identifying and prosecuting individual file-sharer
RIAA Quietly Drops a Suit; "Making Available" Questions Linger
The RIAA has quietly dropped a two-year file-swapping lawsuit, a development that intensifies questions related to its methods for identifying and prosecuting individual file-sharer
Canada to get tough on digital piracy
Legislation introduced in Canadian Parliament on Thursday would fine consumers about $500 in Canadian dollars for owning bootleg copies of digital music and up to $20,000 for posting copyrighted music to the Internet or giving away an iPod with music on i
New AC/DC Album To Be Wal-Mart Exclusive
AC/DC's next studio album will be exclusively sold at Wal-Mart stores in the United State
Spiralfrog.com to offer downloads from EMI artists
SpiralFrog Inc., which operates an ad-supported, free music and video download Web site, said Monday it will soon begin offering content from Coldplay, Keith Urban and other recording artists as part of a new licensing deal with EMI Music.
Some kind of online subscription model
Metallica have embraced the internet - and to celebrate they're selling $125 lithographs
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