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3 Free Tools to Track Your Buzz

Source: HypeBot
January 13, 2009

People are talking about you. Your email list is growing. More people are coming to shows. It's starting to feel like you've got buzz. But how do you know who is talking about you and what they are saying?

Measuring band buzz and all the data that surrounds an artist will be a top issue for the music industry in 2009. With so many new avenues available for music discovery and promotion, knowing where buzz is coming from and how ...

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10 Music Industry Trends and Questions for 2009

Source: HypeBot
January 13, 2009

Guest post by Kyle Bylin

1. Falling Behind - Ten years ago, The Record Industry had The CD Release Complex and knew exactly what to do. Now everyone else is taking fans to the future that they used to determine. Instead of leading the way, they're left holding the hands of innovators and squeezing tightly when they get scared. Have they been so focused on yesterday's problems that they aren't actually finding tomorrows solutions?

2.Groundswell - Defined as, “A social ...

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Microsoft May Abandon the Zune

Source: HypeBot
January 13, 2009

Recent by comments by Microsoft executives have led to speculation that Microsoft may abandon the Zune.

Microsoft CEO Ballmer declared at CES that consumers increasingly were moving away from one task devices like the Zune towards smart phones while at the same time stating flatly that no Zune phone was in the works.

Microsoft president of the Entertainment and Devices Division Robbie Bach told the press, “We have already ...

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AOL Announces Expansion of Publishing Unit with the Creation of MediaGlow

Source: All About Jazz
January 13, 2009

After a year of strong growth for its programming efforts, AOL announced today a series of significant developments that will dramatically expand, reposition and monetize its digital publishing business in 2009. Over the past year, AOL's programming unit has seen page views climb 40% year-over-year, engagement increase 20% year-over-year and its audience grow to 70 million unduplicated users.* Anchoring today's announcement is the creation of a new AOL business unit, MediaGlow, which will centralize AOL's entire publishing efforts, with the ...

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Saxophonist B.J. Jansen's Official Website Relaunches with New Features

Source: JM Creative
January 11, 2009

B.J. Jansen's official website has relaunched with many new features including a “News" RSS feed and podcast.

ABOUT: B.J. JANSEN B.J. Jansen, born January 3rd 1981 in Cincinnati, has only begun to establish himself as a charismatic and dynamic jazz performer, composer and bandleader on and off the stage. Recent performance highlights as leader have included the 55 Bar, Fat Cat, Garage and Knitting Factory in NYC: NY, Blues Alley in Washington, DC, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Mann Center ...

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Warner Adding Social Networking to Music Sites

Source: PC Magazine
January 11, 2009

After years of watching music fans flood online social networks to interact with their favorite recording artists, the music industry is starting to get serious about adding community features to its own websites. Hoping to become a big player in that effort is networking giant Cisco, which during the Consumer Electronics Show, January 8-11 in Las Vegas, introduced its Eos platform—a set of hosted online tools designed to enable media and entertainment companies to build social networking functions into websites. ...

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Video: Caldwell Explains Why Imeem is Way Important

Source: HypeBot
January 11, 2009

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TotalMusic Births Playlist Widget Tunepost

Source: HypeBot
January 11, 2009

Last year Universal CEO Doug Morris was publicly hawking a concept called TotalMusic that he envisioned as some kind of unlimited music service not unlike Nokia's Comes With Music. One idea that Moriss floated had manufacturers like Zune building the price of the service into the cost of their portable players. Then there was silence... Now it appears that TotalMusic is re-focusing on playlists under the monikor Tunepost. Former Director of AOL Music and current TotalMusic VP Of Product Management ...

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