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Film 72 Musicians Released Using Topspin Platform

Source: HypeBot
February 27, 2010

Could the Topspin direct to fan music marketing and sales platform also serve as a launchpad for indie film and other digital media? 72 Musicians was shot in Kansas City and asks the eternal question, “Why the hell do we chase this music dream, anyway?".

72 Musicians was made and released by Topspin's VP of Product Design Bob Moczydlowsky; so, the partnership is an obvious fit. Following the usual Topspin model, the film has been released in bundles ranging from ...

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iPad Apps Could Put Apple in Charge of the News

Source: All About Jazz
February 26, 2010

Publishers should think twice before worshipping the iPad as the future platform for magazines and newspapers. That is, if they value their independence from an often-capricious corporate gatekeeper. The past weeks controversy swirling around Apples retroactive ban of sexy apps in the App Store seems trivial, but the implications of Apples arbitrariness should be disconcerting to members of the press and those who rely on the media for unbiased information. Apple last week began removing thousands of apps containing overtly ...

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Motorola Wants to Mash-up Phone and TV Functions

Source: All About Jazz
February 26, 2010

Motorola Seeks Tighter Link Between Phones, TV Boxes. Barcelona Spain, Motorola Inc. plans to bring a new email and social-networking function to its television set-top boxes, an early move to share features between its cellphone and home-product divisions. The two divisions long made products that were treated separately, but they will start moving closer now that Motorola plans to spin them off together into a new company. Sanjay Jha, the Motorola co-CEO who will head the new entity.

Motorola lobbed ...

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Italy's Google Verdict Launches Debate over Internet Freedom

Source: All About Jazz
February 26, 2010

It was one of those Internet links that triggers the same morbid instinct that makes motorists slow down to stare at a highway accident scene: Bullying: disabled boy abused in school. The three-minute clip, which was posted to the Google Video platform in 2006, showed four youths in the Italian city of Turin teasing an autistic classmate and throwing tissues at him. At least 12,000 people clicked on the video before Google took it down following a formal complaint to ...

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dropcards.com: New Look, Even Better Tasting!

Source: HypeBot
February 26, 2010

Kyle Bylin (@kbylin), Associate Editor

In January, Dropcards unveiled their new download card platform.  Then, late last week, they held a short webinar to take people through a tour of the new features they added.  I was in attendance, and while I was not familiar with the inner workings of their previous site, I became quite impressed with their rather neat and current offerings.

It goes without saying, that for any artist, the detailed redemption reporting and interactive graphs that the staff over at Dropcards has ...

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Sellaband Saved, May Be Back Online Today

Source: HypeBot
February 26, 2010

After declaring bankruptcy in Dutch court earlier this week, fan to artist funding site Sellaband has been saved by a German investment group who are moving the site to their home country and promising to have it back online today.

Exactly why the site went dark and how the new owner plans to change SellaBand is unclear. But CEO Johan Vosmeijer is out; replaced by Michael Bogatzki. “We will continue to advance this fantastic platform while acting in the spirit ...

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Google Begins Indexing Facebook Pages

Source: PC Magazine
February 26, 2010

It took a while, but Google is now indexing Pages from Facebook, Google said today via a tweet on its official account. Unlike individual profiles, Facebook Pages were designed for organizations, businesses, celebrities, and bands to provide updates. Now, those will be part of Google's real-time search results, which were first announced in December at its real-time search event. Other social feeds Google said it would index include MySpace, FriendFeed, Jaiku and Identi.ca; most have taken a bit of time. ...

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In Defense of Adobe Flash

Source: PC Magazine
February 26, 2010

Flash is going through a pretty tough time right now. Apple's Steve Jobs, reportedly, hates it. Consumers seem to think it's bloated and unsafeat least that's the commonly held wisdom. For me, though, Flash is one of the Web's more sublime technologies, one I've known and used for more than 15 years. It was 1994 or 1995 and I was attending Internet World in San Jose, CA. Back then it was a tiny show, with embarrassingly small booths. In one ...

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