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Whose on Your Email List? Flowtown Will Tell You.

Source: HypeBot
March 18, 2010

You've got hundreds, even thousands of emails on your mailing list. But who are they?

Many email programs use ISP addresses to pinpoint with some accuracy the email address owners location to about the zip code level. But Flowtown goes farther. The new service trolls the web and can often also find out the name, age, gender, occupation and all the social networks of the fans that signed up for your email list.

It all sounds a little bit like ...

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Youtube Adds Paid Partner Program for Indie Bands

Source: HypeBot
March 18, 2010

YouTube is using the SXSW 2010 spotlight to expand itsYouTube Partner Program to more indie musicians with a Musicians Wanted campaign. Not every artist will be accepted to the program, but starting today YouTube staffers are on the lookout for more d.i.y. and indie artists for the Partner Program so they can profit from what they've already been doing uploading and promoting their videos.

“Our goal in all these partner programs is to help people get to that ...

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Canon First in Line for Its Own Top-Level Domain, .Canon

Source: All About Jazz
March 18, 2010

Canon announced Wednesday it intends to be the first company to say goodbye to .com and buy its own top-level domain, taking advantage of ICANNs decision to broadly widen the number of top-level names. If or rather when this starts happening, web address conventions may never be the same. If successful, the global electronics giant, perhaps best know for its digital SLR cameras, will open the .canon global Top Level Domain, or TLD, as soon as late 2011. And then ...

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Outgoing FTC Commissioner Dings Google, Internet Companies on Privacy

Source: Michael Ricci
March 18, 2010

Actor Marlon Brando once said: “Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite."

He probably would not have appreciated how the Internet is peeling away the last vestiges of privacy.

And neither apparently does outgoing Federal Trade Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour, who said Wednesday that Google, Facebook and other major U.S. Internet companies need to better protect the privacy of their users or face stiff penalties.

The views she expressed were her own, and not ...

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Canon to Buy '.Canon' in New Domain-Name Land Rush

Source: PC Magazine
March 18, 2010

We're entering a brave new era in the world of domain acquisition. After decades of hampering the creation of new top-level domains, the ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the international body that governs such things, opted to loosen restrictions. Thus it has opened up the Web to a potential deluge of TLD registration in 2010, when the rules take effect. Naturally, corporations have seen the opening as a brand-new Internet land grab. And while most have yet ...

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YouTube Sets Its Sights on Independent Musicans

Source: Michael Ricci
March 17, 2010

YouTube wants to rock MySpace. The Google-owned video site is expected to announce Wednesday a new program, dubbed Musicians Wanted, to lure independent musicians to its social- networking site.

The program targets independent artists, offering them an easy way to create their own home page, or channel, on YouTube and share in the ad revenues generated by their videos. Until now, YouTube has offered the revenue-sharing option only to artists who have contracts with record labels or who have special ...

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Spotify: The Savior, or the Destroyer of Music?

Source: PC Magazine
March 17, 2010

Daniel Ek, chief executive of the music streaming service Spotify, spoke to a crowd of 2,000 SXSW attendees on Tuesday - virtually none of whom are legally allowed to use his service. Until it successfully navigates the lions den of U.S. licensing laws, the largest music market in the world will be closed to Spotify. Judging by the response Ek got at SXSW, Apple had better hope that day never comes. “I believe that if music could legally be on ...

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Google's Traffic is Giant, Which is Why It Should Be Your ISP

Source: All About Jazz
March 17, 2010

Everybody knows Google is one of the net's big kids, but how big is it exactly?

Well, as Arbor Networks measures it, if Google were an ISP it would be the third largest in the world and the fastest growing -- if you are measuring the amount of traffic passed from its network to another. Arbor sells network control and monitoring equipment to the net's biggest ISPs and networks, and knows as much about global network traffic as anyone does. ...

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