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Why You Should Start Using Flattr

Source: HypeBot
January 15, 2011

This guest essay is written by Robbert van Ooijen. He recently studied online music and music piracy at the master level at New Media & Digital Culture at the Dutch University of Utrecht. Van Ooijen also blogs at HaveYouHeard.It. Last December I integrated the micropayment tool Flattr into my blog, Have You Heard It ,and started with tipping other people who had integrated the tool into their website as well. Since then, I became a big fan of the Sweden-based ...

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Music Sales Launches Blues Writer iPhone Application Designed for Songwriters.

Source: Free Energy Media
January 15, 2011

Creative companion and high quality recording for the iPhone New York, NY—Music Sales group has launched Blues Writer, an iPhone app for both the professional and aspiring songwriter. Rock, folk, indie and blues musicians can all benefit from this application which encourages the creative process. With a built in rhyming dictionary and instrumental backing tracks, the app is designed specifically for songwriters and musicians. When at a loss for words, double click and Schirmer's Complete Rhyming Dictionary, the industry standard ...

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Get Spotify for Free in North America in 5 Steps

Source: HypeBot
January 14, 2011

This is a guest post by Voyno of The New Rockstar Philosophy. Have you heard the rumors? Spotify is available in North America. Yes THE Spotify, the service that was supposed to save the industry. While I'm not so sure about saving the entire music industry, I can attest to how slick and user friendly Spotify is. But how? How did I get this amazing Europe-only music service as a land locked North American? Well Business Insider has a quick ...

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Chart: Top Reasons Some People Aren't on Facebook Plus 2 Lessons for Artists and Marketers

Source: HypeBot
January 14, 2011

Despite what the media would have you believe, everyone is not using Facebook. And, believe it or not, the top reason is not a a fear of losing their privacy. Most who don't use Facebook, do so because they think its a  a waste of time. The chart below is based on a survey of 2,500 over the age of 18.  Interestingly, there were more people that said they weren't on Facebook because it's a waste in November than in ...

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Break Through the Noise or Be the Noise - Your Last Tweet Was 1 out of 25 Billion Others

Source: HypeBot
January 14, 2011

As an artist, it's easy to lose confidence and convince yourself that you're lost in the mix. Why bother?  No one is paying attention anyways. Last year, that tweet you sent out was just 1 out of the 25 billion others sent. Your newsletter was 1 out of 107 trillion emails that landed in people's inboxes. Your website, with its beautiful landing page, is 1 just out of 255 million. There are 1.97 billion internet users worldwide. Are they your fans? ...

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Moontoast Impulse: A New Social Commerce, Music Application for Facebook [launch]

Source: HypeBot
January 13, 2011

Moontoast Impulse is a new music app for Facebook that let's fans listen, share, and buy without leaving the site. The entire song transaction occurs within Facebook. The app lives on an artist's Facebook page; it has a customizable interface. Fans can share individual songs and post them on their wall for their friends to see. On the back-end, the Moontoast Impulse app lets artists look at top plays, top downloads, and top sales, as well as, who brought what ...

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Seth Godin's Five Ingredients of Smart Online Commerce

Source: HypeBot
January 12, 2011

It depends. These five ingredients of smart online commerce might apply to you. They may not. Marketer Seth Godin analyzed why companies like Penguin Magic and ibex succeed at selling things online. Here are five things, according to Godin, they do that make them successful online: 1) They sell a product you can't buy at the local store. This is easily overlooked and critically important. Because it's unique, it's worth seeking out and talking about. Just because you built a site ...

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CES: Tablets, Tablets Everywhere

Source: Moses Supposes
January 11, 2011

The future is clear. It will be a world of tablets. Tablets in the kitchen, the hall. Tablets in the kid's room, the bathroom, the car, you name it.

And to keep them safe, ergonomic and efficient there are literally over 50,000 companies that are making accessories to facilitate the tablet revolution. The vast, vast majority were for iPads, suggesting to me that Samsung, Intel and other tablet makers stand little chance of surpassing Apple's dominance. If you can not ...

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