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New Product For Musician Enhances Learning
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James Todd
Video Surgeon is the ultimate teaching and learning tool for musicians who use video. It can transform ordinary video footage into a valuable learning tool, thereby speeding your learning. Video Surgeon is a form of video analysis software. It enables users to perform video slow motion, zooming, and looping - and it can do ALL of these at the same time. And that's just the beginning, Video Surgeon enables you to do frame-by-frame review and analysis, it allows you to ...
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5 Expert Tips for a Faster, Stronger Music Website
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HypeBot
By Damian Burke, web developer and editor of The Doughnut, from the Sonicbids Blog. This third installment is aimed at musicians who have a basic understanding of SEO, access to their hosting and content management system (e.g. Wordpress, Drupal), and don’t mind getting their hands dirty with a little bit of code. If you’re new to this series on search engine optimization (SEO), you may want to check out An Intro to SEO for Musicians Part 1 and Part 2 ...
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Bandzoogle Upgrades Music Websites with Unified Store and New Design Options
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HypeBot
Bandzoogle continues to release new upgrades to their website building and hosting service for musicians. Having migrated to a totally new platform in recent months, users are now seeing the fruits of that labor. In particular, a unified ecommerce store is available and new design options are appearing to update the look of sites as well. If this keeps up Bandzoogle has a strong case for being the leading one-stop-shop for musicians' website needs. Bandzoogle's been on the renewal train ...
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Venzo Digital's Free iTunes Distro Adds Music Videos, Passes $2 Million in Artist Payouts
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HypeBot
Venzo Digital focuses exclusively on providing free digital music distribution to iTunes taking a 20% revenue share. This week they announced the addition of music video uploads to iTunes in addition to music, ringtones and mobile apps. Venzo also debuted Intranet Voice, introducing voice navigation to their site, and payouts now reaching over $2 million to musicians. Last week I spoke with CEO and Founder Kevin Rivers about the news as well as future plans for Venzo Digital. Venzo Adds ...
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Heartbleed Bug: A Musician's Guide to the Web's Biggest Security Threat
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HypeBot
Ideally you've already heard of Heartbleed and are acting accordingly. If not, you need to know that a “crypto bug" in OpenSSL has been identified that, if exploited, “allows attackers to eavesdrop on communications, steal data directly from the services and users and to impersonate services and users." Yeah, yeah, sounds scary but what's a musician to do? It's time to start changing passwords on such services as SoundCloud, Gmail, Tumblr and Facebook. Then be prepared to repeat the process. ...
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Twitter Redesign-in-Progress Offers Fresh Music Marketing Potential
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HypeBot
Yeah, the extra photos and tagging that Twitter recently introduced are definite boons to music marketers. But they're not stopping there. Things are getting all crazy, Facebook-ish, “media forward" some people call it. Lots of new marketing potential emerging on Twitter but writers invoking Facebook helped me realize how Twitter, too, may already be curtailing organic reach. Latest Changes Focus On Your Twitter Profile Yesterday Twitter announced a “whole new you, in your Twitter profile." The most noticeable change to ...
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Twitter's New Music Strategy: Vevo Music Videos, Beats Music Ads, Soundcloud Partnership
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HypeBot
It seemed to be a widespread conclusion that the Twitter #Music App was essentially dead long before the announcement that it was being pulled. Though critics continue to address the topic from time to time, focus is now moving on to Twitter's future plans. According to two writers for WSJ.com and their sources, Twitter will roll out a new music strategy this very week. It's claimed they also met with Beats Music, want to work with SoundCloud and are adding ...
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10 Point Plan for Growing Your Web Presence
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HypeBot
By Chris Bolton, reposted from the HostBaby Blog. Building your web presence means you want to be in as many places as you can. After all, you want your fans to easily find you on their favorite social networks. But just being on a social network is not enough. In order to ensure that you are easily found, and that your fans can easily connect with you, you need to make sure that you fill out your social profiles completely ...
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