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TechDirt's Mike Masnick on Records, Reznor and Giving Fans a Reason to Buy

Source: HypeBot
May 3, 2009

TechDirt's Mike Masnick recently keynoted the Digital Music Leadership Summit sponsored ironically by the RIAA. He about new models of the music industry and who Nine Inch Nails gets it right by giving fans a reason to buy his music instead of grabbing on a file sharing network.

Leadership Music Digital Summit 2009 - Mike Masnick keynote address, 3/25/09 from Leadership Music Digital Summit on Vimeo.

7 SEO Tips for Musicians and Labels

Source: HypeBot
May 3, 2009

Using Search Engine Optimization To Get Your Music Discovered

Most musicians want their band to be discovered. Not by a Universal Music talent scout maybe - that would be so 2005. Nowadays musicians need to be discovered by their fans and using a search engine like Google is the top way that people find out more about anything they're interested in, including music.

But when a fan “googles" Ten Ton Rock Machine do they find a great band ...

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French Pols Reconsider Piracy Bill

Source: All About Jazz
May 2, 2009

French legislators reconsidered a bill Wednesday that would punish people who illegally download music and films by cutting off their Internet connections.

The bill was rejected in a surprise move earlier this month. Record labels and film companies had looked to the measure to boost ever-shrinking profits in the face of online file-sharing, which lets people swap music files without paying.

But they couldn't rally the needed support for the vote earlier this month, and it was rejected in a ...

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Learn About Your Fans Using Youtube Insight

Source: HypeBot
May 1, 2009

Who are all those people watching your videos? Why do they seem to love one video and not another? YouTube Insight launched a year ago offering useful analytics. Whether you want to know how old your audience is, how many times your most viewed video was rated last week, or which minute of your clip is most engaging, YouTube Insight provides the answer.It's reached via a small link on your ...

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Amazon: Send Your Own Docs to Your Kindle

Source: PC Magazine
May 1, 2009

Amazon on Wednesday announced a couple of changes to Whispernet for the Kindle. Users can now send DOCX (the proprietary Word 2007 format) and RTF files to be read on the device. The company also introduced a new--and potentially more expensive--fee structure for docs sent over the network. Rather than simply charging a 10-cent-per-document fee, the company has begun charging by the megabyte.Documents will now run users 15 cents per megabyte, rounded up to the next megabyte. “If you would ...

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Time Warner to Spin off AOL

Source: Michael Ricci
April 30, 2009

The Internet service's plunging revenue has been dragging down the media company that it acquired in 2000. In 2000, America Online Inc. used its soaring stock price to gobble up Time Warner Inc. and create the world's largest media conglomerate. Nearly a decade later, it's Time Warner that's spitting out AOL. Time Warner said in a regulatory filing Wednesday that it intended to spin off the struggling Internet property, whose advertising revenue plunged 20% in the first quarter. AOL's decline ...

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Top 10 Twitter Tools for Musicians

Source: HypeBot
April 30, 2009

Great Tools For Fans Too SONG.LY - Type in a song title or mp3 link to tweeT and your followers get a short link to a page allowing them to play the song right in the browser without having to download it. TWITTERFEED - Use this free service to have your RSS feeds and blog posts automatically posted to your Twitter account TWI.BZ - Every letter counts and this url shortener has special features designed specifically for ...

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Experts Warn Internet is Running Out of Bandwidth

Source: All About Jazz
April 30, 2009

Internet users face regular “brownouts" that will freeze their computers as capacity runs out in cyberspace, according to research to be published later this year. Experts predict that consumer demand, already growing at 60 percent a year, will start to exceed supply as early as 2010 because of more people working online and the soaring popularity of bandwidth-hungry Web sites such as YouTube and services such as the BBC's iPlayer. It will initially lead to computers being disrupted and going ...

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