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Lime Wire Adds CD Baby's 240k Indie Artists

Source: HypeBot
July 6, 2009

Lime Wire is adding CD Baby's catalog of 240,000 independent artists to its digital the LimeWire Store. The CD Baby catalog includes topsellers from Regina Spektor, Gary Jules, Joe Purdy, Ingrid Michaelson, Melissa Ferrick, Charlotte Martin, Colin Hay and Stan Ridgway, and this deal brings the total number of licensed tracks on Lime Wire to 3.5 million.

Elderly Like to Twitter, Too

Source: PC Magazine
July 6, 2009

Celebrities and hip adults aren't the only people flocking to Twitter, the social-networking site. Even centenarians have learned to tweet. Three percent of U.S. centenarians questioned in a new survey said they use the service that allows users to send short text messages, or tweets, of up to 140 characters at least once a week to keep in touch with their friends and family. Another 10 percent sent emails to stay connected, 12 percent shared photos on the Internet and ...

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Explosions in the Sky: Take Better Fireworks Photos

Source: All About Jazz
July 3, 2009

Is your city puting on a massive pyrotechnics display this weekend? Or maybe just your neighbor Carl? Either way, you can learn how to capture the moment in all its noisy, exploding glory with a digital camera.

Ideally, it pays to use a camera that offers some level of manual control over the settings. That way, you can dial in the best exposure, aperture and focus settings to achieve the best results.

But you can still take good photos of ...

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Open the Gate and Flood the Valley CD Release & Concert

Source: All About Jazz
July 2, 2009

Joe Albano's first album as a leader, Open the Gate and Flood the Valley is set to release on July 5th, 2009!!!

You can check out Joe's music at www.albanothemadman.com. The concert will be featuring a cast of stellar musicians including:

Joe Albano - Reeds Steve Ruel - Reeds Aki Ishiguro - Guitar Jim Robertson - Bass Tyshawn Sorey - Drums

The Concert will take place at Solo, 1502 Cortelyou Rd. Brooklyn, ...

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Judge Overrules Jury Acquits Lori Drew in Myspace Cyberbullying Case

Source: Michael Ricci
July 2, 2009

A federal judge tentatively decided today to dismiss the case against a Missouri woman who had been convicted of computer fraud stemming from an Internet hoax that prompted a teenage girl to commit suicide.

Lori Drew of Darden Prairie, Mo., was convicted in November of three misdemeanor counts of illegally accessing a protected computer.

The decision by U.S. District Judge George H. Wu will not become final until his written ruling is filed, probably next week. Wu said he was ...

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Global Gaming Buys the Pirate Bay

Source: All About Jazz
July 1, 2009

STOCKHOLM Swedish vidgame company Global Gaming Factory X has bought file-sharing website The Pirate Bay, whose founders were sent to jail earlier this year for being accessory to copyright infringement.

Global Gaming paid Swedish kroner 60 million ($7.7 million) for the company, which it intends to relaunch as a legal download site.

Global Gaming CEO Hans Pandeya said the company had bought The Pirate Bay because it was a global brand with more than 20 million visitors and more than ...

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Jazz, Fine Wine and..... Kayak?

Source: All About Jazz
July 1, 2009

Elegant Hand-Crafted Wooden Kayak Outperforms High-Tech Peers

When you see a pile of wood strips, you probably think tinder. Crown molding at best. But Nick Schade of Guillemot Kayaks envisions an elegant boat that, though handcrafted using the oldest of techniques, outperforms its newfangled peers.

Guillemot's vessels are so striking that the New York Museum of Modern Art has one in its permanent collection. Despite their vintage looks, these kayaks have hulls that are stronger than fiberglass and as tough ...

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Overloaded with Data? Trendrr Launches Pro

Source: HypeBot
June 30, 2009

A First Look & How It Compares

Information and trends spread across the global net with lightening speed. Bloggers and fans love a show, hate a single, publish a photo, share an impression. Each of these “events", whether they are on the rise or decline and where they are coming from all come together to create buzz.

Digital marketing agency Wiredset, who works with Last.FM, Capital, Sony BMG and Universal, as well as, tv networks, book publishers and brands, created ...

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