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Daily D.I.Y. - Building Personal Brand Within the Social Media Landscape

Source: HypeBot
February 11, 2009

Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor This is a transcription of a presentation given by Gary Vaynerchuk at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York. I've watched the video many times and wanted you share it with you, because I think he says some very important things. There's always going to be a day where you don't want to answer another email, solve another captcha puzzle on MySpace, write a blog post, or God forbid, we write about another social network or ...

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Peoples Music Store Rewards Viral Sales

Source: HypeBot
February 11, 2009

(UPDATED) The UK People's Music Store empowers fans to set up music stores and choose from more than 250,000 songs, write reviews, and market their store online. Storekeepers earn points for everything they sell, which can be used to buy more music.

I met two of the People's Music Store team at Midem and was pleased to learn that they have avoided all of the mulit-level nonsense that doomed some previous attempts to moneitze fan sales; and by their sincere ...

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Indie Label Asthmatic Shares "What is Working?"

Source: HypeBot
February 11, 2009

In an ongoing series Hypebot has been asking indie professionals: “In this fractured media landscape, what is working? What outlets and tools are helping your artists build an audience? “ Today Michael Kaufmann, John Beeler and the team at indie label Asthmatic Kitty (Sufjan Stevens, I Heart Lung, Welcome Wagon, Castanets, Half-handed Cloud) share their philosophies and methodology. MARATHON RUNNING - The temptation is the glory hogging sprint, the sweaty pride of a blast out of ...

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Video: Seth Godin on Why You Need a Tribe

Source: HypeBot
February 11, 2009

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The Day the Music Biz Changed: Parsing the Live Nation / Ticketmaster Press Release

Source: Michael Ricci
February 10, 2009

It's almost done. As first reported last week by the Wall Street Journal, a plan to merge industry giants Ticketmaster and Live Nation was announced this morning. And if it goes through, don't expect the music business to ever be the same again. Billboard's Ray Waddell sums up the size of this new corporate powerhouse: “The merger would create the most powerful and influential entity the music business has ever known. As manager, ticketer, venue operator, merchandiser and ...

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Digital Music Forum East Takes Shape

Source: HypeBot
February 10, 2009

Digital Music Forum East has chosen its speakers and topics for its annual gathering to be held on February 25-26 in New York. “Recent industry developments, such as iTunes and the labels' abandonment of DRM, have liberated the music industry to begin an era of innovation and experimentation to try new business models that engage consumers and move the industry forward," said Ned Sherman, CEO and Publisher of Digital Media Wire.

The event includes a keynote interview with Dalton Caldwell, ...

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Ticketmaster Faces Scalping Lawsuit in Canada

Source: All About Jazz
February 10, 2009

Ticketmaster Faces Scalping Lawsuit in Canada, Blames Glitch For Springsteen Debacle

Hours before Live Nation and Ticketmaster revealed final merger plans, an Ontario man filed a class action lawsuit against Ticketmaster in Canada after he was maneuvered to the secondary ticket site TicketsNow while trying to buy seats for a Smashing Pumpkins show in November 2008.

In a situation eerily similar to the one that plagued Bruce Springsteen fans last week, the $410 million lawsuit alleges Henry Krajewski was redirected ...

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Burden of Twitter

Source: All About Jazz
February 10, 2009

NYU lecturer and Wired correspondent Clay Shirky notes in his 2008 book, Here Comes Everybody, that sharing personal information on social networks is not the same as broadcasting. It's more like dishing with close buddies in a mall food court.

Guilty. I feel guilty that I have a blog and haven't contributed to it for seven months. Guilty that all my pals on Facebook post cool pictures, while the last shots I uploaded were of Fourth of July fireworksfrom 2007. ...

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