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Twitter Will Remain Free, May Add Business Accounts

Source: PC Magazine
July 25, 2009

Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, said instead of thinking of the service as a social tool to connect with friends, he wants Twitter to be seen as a communications and information network for discovering and sharing what is happening right now. This was part of a discussion at Fortune Brainstorm Tech about the company, perhaps the most talked-about new tech startup over the past year. Stone talked about how the “level of awareness is greater than the level of engagement," ...

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News Corp.: Constraining Content Produces Piracy

Source: PC Magazine
July 25, 2009

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AOL's New Focus: Content, Mapping

Source: PC Magazine
July 25, 2009

AOL's new CEO Tim Armstrong believes the company can improve its core products and focus much more on the consumer experience, which will let the company grow and attract more advertising. In a discussion on Thursday at Brainstorm Tech, Armstrong said he is focusing AOL on content, Advertising.com, local and mapping, messaging, and AOL Ventures. Armstrong discussed how Google (where he ran advertising) built a good underlying platform behind its advertising space, and how he wants AOL to do that ...

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Myspace Music Showing Strong Growth

Source: HypeBot
July 25, 2009

Growth may have slowed for MySpace, but the same can't be said for its music.myspace.com subdomain. New Nielson figures show a 190% increase at MySpace Music since its launch in September 2008 and year-over-year traffic to the URL has increased a whopping 1,017% That's a jump from 4.2 million unique visitors to 12.1 million in June 2009. Compared to other music sites MySoace Music ranked third behind AOL Music and Yahoo! Musicand ahead of MTV Networks Music, MSN ...

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Music Widgets Come of Age

Source: HypeBot
July 24, 2009

Widgets to share and sell music began appearing as early as 2008. But with the increased focus on direct to fan channels, a widget's ability to spread virally and be updated instantly has led to greater adoption from music marketers. In addition to standalone widget suppliers, both Topspin and ReverbNation, for example, have made widgets a cornerstone of their artist empowerment efforts.

Tunecore's new widget

This week Tunecore added widgets to ...

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CEO Promises Simplified Unified Myspace

Source: HypeBot
July 21, 2009

"...simplifying and unifying our site is fundamental to our success going forward. MySpace should feel like one platform - not 15 sites loosely stitched together. We consider our diverse content offering a strength but too many logos and disorganized verticals makes the site difficult to navigate and creates confusion about our brand identity. Our users don't know if we're a social portal, a music site, or an entertainment hub." - MySpace CEO ...

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Apple Preparing iPod Touch with Camera, Microphone

Source: All About Jazz
July 21, 2009

Rumors have swirled about Apple readying a new version of the iPod Touch with a camera and microphone, which, combined with a Skype account, would pretty much obviate the need for a home phone line once and for all.

A well-connected source tells us those rumors are on the money, and that Apples factories in China are already manufacturing iPod Touch models with integrated cameras and microphones. An Apple spokesman declined to comment when reached by phone.

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Blue Microphones Turns up the Volume

Source: Michael Ricci
July 21, 2009

Making audio tools for mainstream laptop users is instrumental to its success. Apple nudged it to develop the Snowball USB mic, which became a hit with users of recording software such as GarageBand.

Blue Microphones got its start building high-end studio microphones for the recording industry, making a name for itself as a niche player. But niche no more. With a nudge from Apple Inc., the Westlake Village company built a low-cost microphone for use with music recording software.

That ...

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