Technology News

Youtube Copies Twitter with 'Trending Topics'

Source: PC Magazine
October 21, 2009

YouTube is incorporating some Twitter-esque upgrades to its comments section. The Google-owned video site is launching a beta--or Test Tube--version of Comments Search, which will let users search YouTube comments in real time. “The full comment will appear on a continuously updated results page, and 'trending topics' indicates the hottest topics of conversation on YouTube at that particular moment," YouTube wrote in a blog post. Trending topics? They couldn't even come up with a different name? The idea is to ...

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Minds for the Future: Why Digital Immersion Matters

Source: HypeBot
October 19, 2009

“If we hope to head towards a bright future in the digital age, then, it begins with preparing Digital Natives and other young kids to help lead the way."

Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor

To be sure, the term “Digital Native" is misleading, because no two Digital Natives are created equal. Each of them has varying degrees of access to digital technologies, literacy skills, and participation within their peer culture. What's more alarming is the “divide" opening up between ...

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Nielson Study: Adult Women Love Music Sites

Source: HypeBot
October 18, 2009

Think that music is a man's world? As it has in many other ways, the internet is leveling the playing field, at least for female fans. A new Nielson NetView study showed that inAugust, women made up 56.1% of the traffic to music sites or 42.5 million unique female visitors.

The female traffic is not just teenage girls scouring sites for the latest on the Jonas Brothers. Women 35-60 make up about 1/3 of visitors to music sites; with women ...

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Eight Million YouTube Views and a Sonny Rollins iPhone App

Source: All About Jazz
October 13, 2009

Bret Primack is pleased to report that his YouTube Jazz Video Guy channel has passed eight million views and that he’s just released a Sonny Rollins iPhone App. On the cutting edge of technology and music since he co-founded Jazz Central Station, the first Jazz website, in 1994, Bret is an outspoken advocate for utilizing new media as marketing and distribution tool for Jazz. “To reach new listeners, as well as consolidate the existing global Jazz audience, it’s important to ...

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piracypayback.org - The Cure for P2P Remorse

Source: HypeBot
October 10, 2009

Feeling guilty about all that file sharing that you did last night? Pop on over to PiracyPayback.org and make a donation to lesson your guilt. There's no mechanism for compensating individual artists, but every quarter checks are sent to various copyright collection organizations for music, film and gaming.

“giving music away...lacks imagination and is a cop out"

Free music, the sites creators say, is not the answer. “While we agree that the nature of the music industry needs to change, ...

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RIAA Says "Couldn't Have Says It Better" on P2P

Source: HypeBot
October 10, 2009

Or maybe they could have said nothing...

From the RIAA blog:

Sometimes something is said so perfectly that it's not worth summarizing or paraphrasing. After documenting the extensive computer security and legal issues associated with illegal file sharing sites, an editorial entitled “Responsible Use of Eastern Network Every Student's Responsibility" in the Daily Eastern News, the newspaper of Eastern Illinois University, concluded:

Gainsbourg/Beck Free Download

Source: JamBase
October 10, 2009

IRM, THE FORTHCOMING CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG ALBUM PRODUCED BY BECK WILL BE RELEASED IN JANUARY 2010 / ALBUM'S TITLE TRACK IS AVAILABLE AS A FREE DOWNLOAD

Charlotte Gainsbourg When Charlotte Gainsbourg began planning her forthcoming album, she thought Beck might be a perfect producer for the musically adventurous and diverse approach she had in mind. From the first casual hours together in the studio, she recognized a shared sensibility and the potential for a collaboration that would be both ...

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Susanna Lindeborg & Ove Johansson Live Video Internet Concert

Source: All About Jazz
October 9, 2009

Welcome to a live video concert on the web with LJ Duo Susanna Lindeborg, piano, laptop Ove Johansson, tenorsax, laptop This is the first web concert produced by LJ Records, Sweden with an ambition of regularity to present new music, improvised acoustic and electronic jazz. To enjoy the concert live you can find it on: mms://videoarkivet.hh.se/gemaket Saturday October 10th, 2009 Sweden, European time 4 pm US eastern time 10 am For Mac users Window Media Player and Flip4Mac found on: ...

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