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10 Years After: A Look Back at the Dotcom Boom and Bust

Source: All About Jazz
March 10, 2010

On March 10, 2000, the Nasdaq peaked at 5,048.62. Then it promptly nose-dived, never to see that level again. Here's a look back at the era that launched -- and crushed -- a million dreams.

No ecommerce company has ever made a profit. Certainly we will, and the analysts have us making a profit in 2001. Craig Winn, CEO

What the Walkman did for music, what the cell phone did for telephony, Palm will do for your ...

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Watch Rip: A Remix Manifesto Free Online

Source: HypeBot
March 9, 2010

Snag Films is an innovative site that offers 1000+ documentaries available for free streaming and RIP: A Remix Manifesto has just been added to an extensive collection of music related films.

In RIP, filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.

The film's central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. ...

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Is Apple Getting Ready to Boot "Cookie-Cutter" Apps out of the App Store?

Source: PC Magazine
March 9, 2010

Is Apple prepping a heavy hand to combat lookalike applications on its App Store? That's the rumor being put forth by sharp-eyed readers who took note of a rather interesting blog post by Mobile Roadie founder Michael Schneider. Mobile Roadie is a service based on one simple tagline, “The simple and inexpensive way for anyone to build and manage their own iPhone and Android apps." In short, wannabe developers can use the service to create template-driven applications. While there's a ...

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WBGO Launches iPhone Application

Source: Michael Ricci
March 9, 2010

WBGO Jazz 88.3FM has just launched an iPhone application that will allow jazz fans to enjoy WBGO's classic jazz, blues and R&B 24-hours a day, where ever they may roam. Available online at the iTunes Music Store at no cost, the application connects listeners to the live stream from the premier jazz station, member supported radio station, WBGO.

The application will work with both iPhones and the iTouches, and features not only live streaming of the programming on the station, ...

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Music Could Mean $300 Million to Isp's Says Study

Source: HypeBot
March 9, 2010

A new study titled “Is There A Commercial Argument For ISP Music Services" commissioned by the BPI and carried out by industry analyst Ovum, concludes that if the if the top ISPs in the UK embraced music subscriptions, they could generate new revenues of 103 million ($106M US) by 2013.

The study used a medium adoption scenario, equivalent to 41% of the total retail value of the UK digital music market in 2009. Ovum also calculates that an accelerated service-adoption ...

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Four in Five Consider Web Access a Fundamental Right

Source: All About Jazz
March 9, 2010

Four in five adults believe access to the Internet is a fundamental right with those feelings particularly strong in South Korea and China and half believe it should never be regulated, according to a global survey. A poll of 27,000 adults in 26 countries for the BBC World Service showed 78 percent of internet users believed the Web gave them greater freedom, while nine in 10 said it was a good place to learn. Respondents in the United States were ...

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China Will Punish Hackers if Complaint Filed

Source: PC Magazine
March 9, 2010

China has pledged to punish hackers who attacked Google if there is evidence to prove it, but said it has yet to receive any complaint from the world's top search engine. Google sent shockwaves across business and political circles in January when it declared it would stop censoring Chinese search results, and threatened to pull out of Chinathe world's largest online community with 384 million users at the end of last yearover hacking and censorship concerns. Google had never filed ...

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The Echo Nest Gets $500,000 Grant from National Science Foundation

Source: HypeBot
March 7, 2010

Music recommendation platform The Echo Nest has been awarded a $500,000 Phase IIB SBIR grant from the National Science Foundation.

Since 2005, The Echo Nest has been indexing and analyzing music fan activity across the web. The NSF-funded project, entitled “Automated Community and Sentiment Mining for Global Media Preference Understanding" will augment the company's existing “Fanalytics" capabilities, providing in-depth understanding of an artist's existing and potential online fan base. Commercial applications of Fanalytics include targeted music promotion, demographic and psychographic ...

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