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Facebook Introduces "Modern Messaging System"
(Updated) During a press conference today Facebook announced a new “modern messaging system" that combines email, text messaging, instant messages and Facebook messaging into a single stream that founder Mark Zuckerberg says goes “beyond email." Users can get an @facebook.com email address, but it is not an essential component of the system and can continue to ...
Does Litigation Drive Innovation in Media Piracy?
The harder the cultural industries drop the hammer down, the better infringers seem to get at avoiding detection and designing more robust file-sharing clients. For instance, LimeWire remained a rather mediocre service, one many sharers left years ago, and in its killing, a better and more efficient “Pirate Edition" emerged. It makes me wonder, do our ...
Grab a Free Copy of the New Rockstar Philosophy
The crew at The New Rockstar Philosophy wants you to take their book while it's still free. On November 30, they're taking the download off their site. In the meantime, they're asking readers to help them with edits, suggestions, and spelling errors, among other things. Their goal is to emerge with a physical book; one the ...
In Another Napster Moment, Industry Stalls as Consumers Embrace Music Streams
It appears that the recorded music industry may be preparing to shoot itself in the foot yet again. Even as record labels, publishers and pundits debate the pros and cons of music streaming, the consumer has already decided. The popularity of streaming in France, Scandinavia and elsewhere is clear, and the music industry is fond of ...
How Garth Brooks Harms Music Incomes of Others
The Copyright Alliance pointed me to a letter that musician Monisa Angell wrote the Obama Administration. If you want to see the arguments in the music industry painted in black and white. Her note is certainly the black. She raises the question, “Can we afford to have a country where the creator has no value?" Well, ...
Indentify Songs and Collect Them Instantly with Limili
Just when you thought your music discovery efforts were optimized to their full potential, Limili takes them one-step further. Remember that time you heard a song playing and wanted to know what it was, but hadn't the slightest clue? Well, companies like Shazam and Soundhound solved that problem. Limili is similar in concept to those services, ...
Warner Music Group Plannning $750m EMI Bid
Terra Firma's Guy Hands and EMI CEO Roger Faxon claim they have no intention of selling EMI. But its doubtful that their largest lender Citigroup agrees, and since loosing his lawsuit woth the bank, Hands may have no choice. Eager, as he has in the past to take advantage of EMI's struggles is Edgar Bronfman Jr's ...
What is Indie? An Unsigned Artist, Plain and Simple.
Recently, I spoke with Dave Cool, who is director and producer of the documentary film “What is INDIE? A look into the World of Independent Musicians." In it, he chronicles the experience of being an indie artist in the music industry and strives to define and challenge the term “indie" itself. In part one of this ...
Exclusive Video Interview with Pandora Founder
On Tuesday, I caught up with Tim Westergren, the founder of Pandora, in Grand Forks, North Dakota. He was doing a town hall tour of the nation and meeting up with listeners. It was a great experience to see Tim talk and hear listener ideas about where the company should go. After the well-attended event, he ...
We7 Users Love Radio, Not on-Demand Streams
We7, an on-demand music service, is repositioning itself as a web radio service. In January, We7 introduced a radio feature. By October, chief executive Steve Purdham reports that it accounted for “well over half" of the songs listened to on the site. In an interview with paidContent, Purdham candidly states that he thought users wanted unlimited ...
