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Flickr Offers Video Hosting to All Users, Adds HD

Source: PC Magazine
March 5, 2009

Last spring, Yahoo announced that it had added YouTube-like video hosting to its Flickr photo-hosting site—but only for paid users of the Pro version. The company has announced that now even users with free accounts can put their videos on Flickr. The service has also been enhanced with high-definition video quality, but only for members with paid Pro subscriptions. Free users will be limited to two video uploads per month, and each video is limited to 90 seconds in length ...

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Grateful Dead Ebook iTunes App Available Now

Source: JamBase
March 5, 2009

GRATEFUL DEAD eBOOK IS RELEASED IN iTUNES APP STORE

Mosaic Legends, LLC, a digital media company focused on turning digital assets into marketable consumer products & services, partners with San Francisco based rock photographer Jay Blakesberg to create the first interactive electronic book of the Grateful Dead. Available exclusively at the Apple iTunes App Store, this eBook utilizes over four hundred photographs and original text to create a content rich experience.

“The Grateful Dead are the perfect subject for our ...

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Prosecutor, Hollywood Demand Prison for Pirate Bay Crew

Source: All About Jazz
March 2, 2009

STOCKHOLM — Three entertainment lawyers and a Swedish prosecutor demanded jail time Monday for the four defendants in The Pirate Bay trial, though they couldn't agree on how much. The prosecution is seeking a year in prison for each, while Hollywood is leaning toward the maximum two-year terms.

Defendants Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundstrm face prison and fines as high as $180,000, for alleged contributory copyright infringement. In addition, motion picture and record companies are ...

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Avid Brings 3-D Without Blinders

Source: All About Jazz
March 2, 2009

Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience has earned the second-best opening weekend for a concert movie -- right behind Hannah Montana's own 3-D film a year ago. The feats are even more impressive when you consider that the films' editors couldn’t always see what they were doing.

Michael Tronick cut the Jonas Brothers’ movie without the benefit of 3-D playback in his Avid. “It would have been extremely useful to be able to look at an edit of a song ...

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Disc Shelf: A Place to Release Albums Online

Source: All About Jazz
March 2, 2009

Recently a service for musicians was opened. The service is called Disc Shelf and allows musicians to upload their music and present it to their listeners in form of albums: singles, EPs, LPs, promo discs and WIPs (work in progress). Each album receives a unique URL for distribution. The whole idea of the project is to have works online that would have no ratings, comments, no weird menus and without it looking like a web page. ...

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The Beatles’ Experimental “Revolution 1 (Take 20)” Surfaces

Source: All About Jazz
February 27, 2009

Beatles fans still patiently waiting for Paul McCartney to release the band’s 1967 sound collage “Carnival of Light” were surprised by an even better gift this weekend as a 10-minute version of The White Album’s “Revolution 1″ leaked onto the internet

Giving fans a never-before-heard listen of what the White Album sessions must have been like. The track makes it clear why seemingly unrelated “Revolution 1″ and the maniacal “Revolution 9″ sound collage share the same name: In “Revolution 1 ...

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Ticketmaster Ceo Cries Uncle

Source: All About Jazz
February 27, 2009

CEO Amenable to Sale of TicketsNow Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc would be amenable to selling troublesome subsidiary TicketsNow, Ticketmaster Chief Executive Irving Azoff told a congressional panel, which seemed skeptical of a proposed merger with concert promoter Live Nation Inc.

Azoff, who came to Ticketmaster four months ago, had previously said he disagreed with the decision to buy TicketsNow.

Fans of Bruce Springsteen who signed on to Ticketmaster earlier this month to buy concert tickets were told that ...

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eMusic Connects Fans to Facebook, Launches New "Free Music" Toolbar

Source: HypeBot
February 26, 2009

eMusic has launched a new marketing campaign rebranding itself as the “internet's corner music store" where music discovery is enhanced by community and word of mouth. Integration with Facebook Connect and a free download widget help power the intiative.

With links added to its site, eMusic subscribers using Facebook Connect can publish their eMusic activities onto the popular social networker. With a single click users can post album ratings, reviews, and artist links to their Facebook profile and friends' Facebook ...

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