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Twitter's Revenue Plan: Tools, Not Ads

Source: PC Magazine
May 19, 2009

Twitter is working on various ways to make money from its fast-growing microblogging service, but advertising is an option that is not currently being considered. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said on Monday that the company is developing various add-on tools and services for the businesses and professional users of Twitter, which could create a revenue stream for the company. He said Twitter plans to introduce some of these tools by year end. But Stone dismissed the notion of selling advertisements ...

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Top 15 Most Popular Music Sites

Source: HypeBot
May 18, 2009

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Pirate Bay Bias Charge: Random Judge Assignment Wasnt

Source: All About Jazz
May 15, 2009

Pirate Bay Judge Tomas Norstrm is under fire again. New allegations questioning the legitimacy of The Pirate Bay trial surfaced Friday when lawyers for the four file-sharing defendants accused the Swedish courts of secretely streering the case to a hostile judge.

The latest ethics charges in the aftermath of the April conviction of the four founders of the worlds most notorious BitTorrent tracker alleged that the judge who presided over the trial wasnt chosen at random, as is required under ...

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Hands on with imeem Mobile

Source: PC Magazine
May 15, 2009

imeem Mobile for iPhone hit the App Store Wednesday, and I had a chance to take the app for a spin just as it was launching. imeem specializes in music streaming, and though it's not the first iPhone app to stream music, it certainly has a lot to offer. The interface is simple, with just four buttons across the bottom of the screen: Featured Artists, MyMusic, Favorites, and Search. Featured Artists is where imeem spotlights artists and songs for the ...

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Thumbplay Eases Mobile Sales for Indies

Source: HypeBot
May 14, 2009

Mobile entertainment provider Thumbplay is introducing OPEN Pro, an online marketing tool that enables artists, labels, managers and media companies to sell digital content to mobile customers. From the new integrated interface, users can manage online and mobile marketing campaigns for multiple artists across multiple websites and get detailed traffic and sales reporting. Thumbplay has also added the Widgetron widget maker, an automated tool that enables the creation of widgets in custom sizes, colors and playlists. ...

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More Friction Between Springsteen and Ticketmaster

Source: Michael Ricci
May 14, 2009

Hundreds of concertgoers who thought they bought tickets for a recent Bruce Springsteen show from Ticketmaster but instead purchased seats from TicketsNow, a resale service owned by Ticketmaster.

Fans will receive reimbursements or tickets to another of Mr. Springsteens shows, The Washington Post reported. More than 300 fans said that they were misled when they bought the tickets to Mr. Springsteens show last Monday night at the Verizon Center in Washington.

In February, Ticketmaster said that it would change its ...

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"The Death of the CD-Release Complex" (Part 2)

Source: HypeBot
May 12, 2009

Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor -- (Read Part One) At its peak, the CD-Release Complex drove sales and represented the symbiotic relationship between the fans and the specific mechanisms they relied upon to discover new music. Everyone involved benefited from the structure of the system that was in place and could be counted on to do their part. The Recording Industry financed and produced music that they in turn promoted through these particular mediums. Then, those who ...

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Komuro Given Suspended Sentence for His Part in Copyright Scam

Source: All About Jazz
May 11, 2009

Tetsuya Komuro, once Japan's most popular music producer, whose hit tunes built media conglom Avex into a powerhouse in the 1990s, has been handed a suspended sentence for a copyright sales scam. On Monday, Osaka District Court handed Komuro a three-year sentence, suspended for five years.

In August 2006, Komuro, who had fallen on hard times after the hits stopped coming, inked a 1 billion ($10 million) deal with a buyer from Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, for the rights to 806 ...

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