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Echo Nest to Enhance MOG's All Access

Source: HypeBot
November 5, 2009

The Echo Nest will help power MOG's All Access music offering when it launched near the end of this month. Echo Nest is a proprietary machine learning platform that listens to and reads about music across the web to power better music search, recommendation and interactivity.

According to David Hyman, CEO of MOG, “MOG All Access will use Echo Nest in combination with other tools to create a revolutionary listening experience that will forever change how you discover music." That's ...

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Forrester: Online Holiday Sales to Grow 8 Percent

Source: PC Magazine
November 5, 2009

U.S. online sales are expected to rise 8 percent this holiday season, with mass market retailers who can offer discounts performing best, according to Forrester Research Inc. The research firm said on Monday it expects online retail sales in November and December to reach $44.7 billion this year, up from $41.4 billion a year ago, providing a bright spot to a retail industry that could see total sales fall. “Despite the lingering effects of the global financial crisis, the online ...

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NARM Invites Hypebot Readers to Online Music Consumer Behavior Seminar

Source: HypeBot
November 5, 2009

The National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM) is inviting Hypebot readers to attend an online seminar this Thursday, November 5th that will examine the results of a recent study of U.S. music consumer buying habits. Membership in NARM is not required.

Under President Jim Donio and Bill Wilson, Director Of Business Development & Digital Strategy, the trade group has worked take a leadership role in the digital music industry. This OnSite Research survey, sponsored in part by NARM, looks at ...

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Use Lala and Myspace to Improve Google Results

Source: HypeBot
November 5, 2009

Along with Lala's new deal to provide enhanced music search results for Google alongside MySpace and others comes word that indie artists and label will be able to control and improve the content of their search results according to Matt Rosoff on CNet's “Eventually, artists will be able to use Lala's platform to ensure that specific content, such as a new song, shows up in the music search results at Google... (they) will also be able to work with Lala ...

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Indie Maximum Exposure 100 Now in Web Form

Source: HypeBot
November 5, 2009

Hypebot recently published the Indie Maximum Exposure 100 by music marketing guru Ariel Hyatt of Ariel Publicity and her friends as a pdf. It was a collaborative effort, bringing together a team of industry experts who, like Ariel, are in the trenches with independent artists every day. Her dream team included Derek Sivers (Sivers.org), Jed Carlson and Lou Plaia (both from Reverb Nation), Tom Silverman (New Music Seminar & Tommy Boy ), Emily White (Whitesmith Entertainment) and musician Jonathan Coulton. ...

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Mobbase D.I.Y. iPhone Apps

Source: HypeBot
November 5, 2009

(UPDATED) Fostering the artist to fan connection is the current mantra and iPhone apps the preffered cutting edge delivery device. But to date only iLike has offered indie artists an affordable way to join the mobile party. Now the team behind MixMatchMusic are adding to the d.i.y. iPhone app toolbox with MobBase, a service that enables artist created custom iPhone apps. These affordable robust apps can share music, photos, videos, tweets, news, show info, merchandise and other content.

While in ...

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Google Wave Explained Pulp Fiction Style

Source: HypeBot
November 5, 2009

Currently in beta, Google Wave could change artists to fan communications...again. Hypebot even named it to our recent 5 New Tech Trends That You Can't Afford To Ignore. But understanding what Google Wave is (part conversation and shared document with text, photos, videos, maps and more) and how it works is not easy. To the rescue comes one of Samuel Jackson's most infamous and threatening scenes from Pulp Fiction delivered Google Wave style. ...

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Site News: STLJN Goes Mobile, Plus a Map of St. Louis Jazz Venues, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
November 2, 2009

It's a new week in a new month, and with it come some new features on this site:* If you'd like to read St. Louis Jazz Notes using a iPhone, Blackberry or similar gadget, there's now a version of StLJN formatted especially for mobile devices available at http://stljazznotes.mofuse.mobi/. (I'll also be adding a permanent link for the mobile service over on the right sidebar, below the “Subscribe to StLJN" section.)Essentially, it takes the RSS feed of ...

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