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Music Not Apps Still Dominate iTunes

Source: HypeBot
September 2, 2010

Despite the invasion of iPhone, iPod Touch and iPhone apps on iTunes, music still dominates the services. According to NPD re search, virtually all iPhone or iPod Touch users have downloaded a free app. But 82% report purchasing music and more than half (56%) of iTunes buyers purchase music exclusively. A majority of iTunes user search time are also focused on looking for music. “Sales growth in digital music has been slowing, and some of that decline might be related ...

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Twitter Followers Get News from Today's Apple Music Announcement First and What to Expect

Source: HypeBot
September 2, 2010

Steve Jobs will take the stage for Apple's big music announcement at 10AM PT / 1PM ET today and Hypebot will be tweeting the news as it happens (@hypeot, sign up here). When Jobs concludes, we'll post a summary on Hypebot. What will Apple announce today? Anything anyone writes about today's announcements is guessing based on rumors and a few insider hints from outside of Apple (i.e. labels that would have to grant rights, etc.) But it's likely that Apple ...

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My Top 4 Picks to Become Head of Google Music Plus a Dark Horse Candidate

Source: HypeBot
September 2, 2010

(UPDATED) The net has been filled with rumors about who Goolgle might choose to head its new music initiative. I have no illusions that Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin and Larry Page pay any more attention to what I think than Tila Tequila does to writing meaningful lyrics, but I couldn't help but offer my own list of candidates. My Top Picks To Head Google Music (in no particular order) Ted Cohen - One of the recorded music industry's first digital executives, ...

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The Apple Wrap-Up: All New iPods; Ping, a Music Social Network; and iTunes 10 Released, w/ New Logo

Source: HypeBot
September 2, 2010

1. All New iPods 2. Ping, iTunes Social Network 3. iTunes 10 Released 4. New iTunes Logo, Something Missing. Click to find out the rest below... (UPDATED) I was lucky enough to catch a Ustream of the Apple event today; much better than watching a live blog. As always, Steve was super-interesting and engaging. There were four big announcements pertaining to music; all new iPods are being released, iTunes now features a social network ...

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Seven Unconventional Ways to Use Twitter

Source: We All Make Music
September 1, 2010

[Editor's Note: This post is by Jonathan Ostrow (@miccontrol), the co-founder of MicControl, a music blogging network based on a social networking platform.] Discussing Twitter, its advantages and disadvantages and how it should be properly used by musicians is obviously not a new subject. If you want to learn more about the basics, check out the 3.24 Million Google results on the subject, or check out the above image to figure out where you fall on its continuum. Even with ...

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MySpace Now Syncs Updates to Facebook

Source: HypeBot
September 1, 2010

While it's quite nice of MySpace to extend users the ability to sync their pages with their Facebook profiles I'm not sure if Facebook will be extending them the same gratitude anytime soon. In a series of moves to ease the use and relevance of their social network, MySpace is now letting users update their Facebook and Twitter accounts at the same time as they change their status on MySpace. Course, the smart readers of this blog are likely using ...

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DRM Tech Provider Intertrust Buys Seeqpod Assets

Source: HypeBot
September 1, 2010

DRM technology provider Intertrust Technologies Corporatiohas has acquired all the software and patents developed by SeeqPod. via a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy proceeding. Intertrust has not acquired the Seeqpod domain name. Seeqpod shut down its then popular music search and play site in 2009 after several major labels and rightsholders filed lawsuits alledging copyright infringement. The search algorithms in SeeqPod were originally developed for searching medical research databases at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories. According to Intertrust they have broad applicability for ...

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Why Stevie Nicks is Still Wrong (Part Two)

Source: HypeBot
September 1, 2010

Let's review: Last week, famed Fleetwood Mac front-woman Stevie Nicks said a few provocative statements about the impact of the Internet on rock music and expressed her concern about how the proliferation of digital technologies has robbed our children of their social graces and driven them to no longer hang out. As we found out, even under minor scrutiny, her statements failed to hold any validly and, for the most part, proved to be quite ill-founded. No surprise there. Now, ...

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