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Saynow Connects Artists to Fans Via Voice Mail and Text Messages

Source: HypeBot
May 29, 2009

Our Call Katy Perry Now post last week led us to service provider SayNow. This free service connects bands with fans via voice mail and text messages. Rapper Soulja Boy regularly connects with 2 million opt-in fans via SayNow.

message and connect with other fans. The only costs are regular mobile use charges. ...

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A Simple Strategy to Increase Your Band's Twitter Followers

Source: HypeBot
May 29, 2009

The graph below highlights a simple way to get Twitter Followers - start Following! This graph, for a particular artist we work with, vividly illustrates the effect of adding Followings - people followed tend to reciprocate. The obvious criticism of this approach is what is the value of the Followers? However, this is balanced by the fact that the people we select to Follow have either mentioned similar artists or the specific artist in their previous posts. (via Million Music ...

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Mobile Music $'s to Hit $5.5b by 2013, but Ad-Supported Could See Shortfalls

Source: HypeBot
May 28, 2009

Despite the global recession, revenues from streamed mobile music services and full-track downloads are expected to exhibit strong growth over the next 5 years, according to a new report from Juniper Research. Combined revenues from these services are expected to more than double from $2.5 billion in 2009 to nearly $5.5 billion in 2013. The report, however, found that those music services launched using an ad-funded model face a potential shortfall of as much as 50% ...

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People Not PC's Pick Playlists on Play.FM

Source: HypeBot
May 28, 2009

On the recently relaunched Play.fm website users can select from more than 12,000 DJ mixes, radio shows and live recordings sorted by style, popularity and other criteria.

Unlike Pandora or Last.fm, people rather than an algorithm choose the music on Play.fm. DJs can upload their mixes and view listener stats. The Paly.fm audio player displays the mix as a wave form and lets users set markers in order to ask ...

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Google Hoping Web Surfers Will Ride Its 'Wave'

Source: Michael Ricci
May 28, 2009

Google Inc. is hatching a new species of e-mail and instant messaging, but the Internet search leader first wants the hybrid service to evolve even more with the help of independent computer programmers. The free tool, called “Google Wave," runs in a Web browser and combines elements of e-mail, instant messaging, wikis and photo sharing in an effort to make online communication more dynamic. Google hopes Wave simplifies the way people collaborate on projects or exchange opinions about specific topics. ...

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Facebook Valued at $10 Billion Via Investment

Source: PC Magazine
May 27, 2009

Facebook sold a 1.96 percent stake for $200 million to a technology investment firm, valuing the largest social networking site at $10 billion, the two companies said on Tuesday. Digital Sky Technologies, based in London and Moscow, bought preferred stock, according to the joint announcement. Digital Sky also plans to buy at least $100 million of Facebook common stock from existing stockholders to provide liquidity for current and former employees with vested shares of Facebook stock. Facebook Chief Executive Mark ...

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Jazz Pioneer Set to Forge 1st Jazz Twitter Nation!

Source: All About Jazz
May 26, 2009

Ever wonder what happens in a day in the life of a pioneer jazz master, who's worked alongside some of the top names in music history, including famed band leaders Count Basie, Lionel Hampton, Duke Ellington and countless other legends of jazz and American popular music such as Dizzy Gillespie, Quincy Jones, Aretha Franklin, Sarah Vaughn, Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald in a career spanning several decades? Noted jazz pioneer Benny Powell is utilizing Twitter.com to bring long-time jazz fans, ...

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Protecting Cultural Norms: How We Project the Present onto the Future

Source: HypeBot
May 25, 2009

Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor Let's be clear... In our discussions regarding the traditional album and its future, one might come to the conclusion that some of us think that there will no longer be albums or, at the very least, if you were actually reading, that it's not apparent to some of us that the album can continue on forever as it is now.

The problem, as Harvard Psychologist Dan Gilbert explains in his release ...

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