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Music Still Dominates Youtube

Source: HypeBot
September 16, 2009

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Google Unveils Fast Flip for Newspapers and Magazines

Source: Michael Ricci
September 15, 2009

Google, which has been likened to “parasites" and “tapeworms" by editors who resent the company's efforts to aggregate news on the Web, this afternoon offered an olive branch to publishers of newspapers and magazines.

Unveiled by Marissa Mayer at a TechCrunch 50 event in San Francisco, Fast Flip is actually more of a carrot than an olive branch, because it offers publishers a potential additional revenue stream.

Here's how it works.

Readers can rapidly browse articles much like flipping through ...

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Facebook Says It's Making a Profit

Source: Michael Ricci
September 15, 2009

Facebook is bringing in more money than it's spending. The social networking site says cash flow became positive during its most recent quarter.

Facebook says it is now bringing in more money than it is spending. The social networking site had previously said it expected to achieve this goal sometime next year. The company also says its users have grown to 300 million worldwide. In a blog post on Facebook's website Tuesday, founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg wrote that ...

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The Steady Decline of MySpace

Source: HypeBot
September 15, 2009

MySpace's sloppy layouts and big brother corporate ownership has made it an easy target. But its hard to deny that for the last few years MySpace has been one of the most useful sites for garnering new fans and general band to fan interaction.

But things are changing. Slowly but steadily page views and unique visitors to MySpace are dropping even as the numbers at Facebook, YouTube and elsewhere continue to grow. The August auto-tune shut-off may have ...

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3 Major Labels Resist Unlimited Download Model

Source: HypeBot
September 12, 2009

ISP Virgin Media and Universal announced an unlimited download service that would allow subscribers to keep the tracks. But Sony Music and EMI are now signaling that they don't believe in the model and WMG has yet to decide.

The fear is that an unlimited download service will be most attractive to heavy downloaders who are already paying for tracks and hoping to pay less for more. “We want to work with Virgin Media as a partner but any deal ...

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A Tale of Two iPods: Why the Touch Has No Camera

Source: All About Jazz
September 10, 2009

Apples decision to not include a camera in the new iPod Touch is somewhat surprising. After all, there is already a perfect camera for the job, and it sits inside the iPhone.

That Apple included a video camera inside the iPod Nano makes this more inexplicable still the Apple of today is clearly happy to put cameras into its media players (unlike the first iPhone, whose camera was so poor we thought it was just a petulant capitulation to cellphone ...

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Pirate Bay Purchase Sinking

Source: All About Jazz
September 10, 2009

The company planning to purchase The Pirate Bay was de-listed from its Swedish stock exchange after concluding Thursday it duped investors and regulators in the $8.5 million deal. Threat Level has repeatedly questioned Global Gaming Factorys intentions of turning the worlds most notorious BitTorrent tracker into a legitimate, pay-to-play site. Now, exchange AktieTorget permanently barred the Swedish-based software concern, casting doubt on how company chief Hans Pandeya would pay for the Bay. Most investors (if there were any) backed out, ...

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Watunes Wants to Become the New Myspace

Source: HypeBot
September 9, 2009

“WaTunes to Become the New MySpace?" is the headline of the press release, but we'll all have to wait until after Sept 28th to learn more more. That's when the free online music distributor launches WaTunes New Experience.

The company does say that the upgrade includes Skype integration which enables artists and fans to communicate directly and engage in social activities like listening to music, buying ringtones, and watching videos. “By integrating their technology into our social platform, we've opened ...

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