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Twitter Redesigns Home Page, Shows Top Tweets

April 2, 2010

The second “new" Twitter home page in just a few months adds top tweets that update every few seconds. It also highlights a random sampling of suggested sources. Hover over them to see a profile summary and their latest tweet. Trending topics scroll across the top of the page. Hovering over some of these trends will ...

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In U.S. 44% Own MP3 Players, 54% Use Them Cars

March 31, 2010

24% of all Americans over age 12 have listened to an iPod, iPhone or other MP3 player while connected to a car stereo according to the new Infinite Dial 2010 national survey from Arbitron and Edison Research. The new national study showed that 44% of Americans 12+ own an iPod or MP3 player. Among that group, ...

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YouTube Continues Page Upgrades

March 30, 2010

YouTube has been testing page design upgrades and last week added a highlights view for comments that summarizes top rated comments, uploader comments and responses that can be drilled into for more detail. YouTube also made some improvements to their new like/dislike ratings system. You'll need to opt-in to be part of the test of these ...

News: Music Industry

Prince Charges Fans for Closed Fan Club

March 30, 2010

From Our Artist/Fan Relationship Dept. To Prince, His Purple Majesty, His Royal Badness, The Dick Formerly Known As Prince: Today, a year after opening your LotusFlow3r club, you charged fans who had requested to cancel their annual memberships another $77. How do I know? Because I am one of them.

News: Music Industry

New Profits from Lyrics?

March 30, 2010

Sony/ATV Partners With Zazzle's ArtsProject For Lyric Inspired Merchandise Initiative Can music publishers find new profits from old song lyrics? On demand merchandise provider Zazzle is partnering with Sony/ATV Music Publishing to find out. Zazzle via its ARTSPROJEKT brand will power a “Lyrical Inspirations Fan Merch" initiative which allows artists and ...

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Amanda Palmer on Why Social Networking Works

March 30, 2010

“i use it to connect and to peel my brain and emotional landscapes inside out in public during the touring process (and last month, during the recording process). as if my followers are there in the room with me..." “this is not a style for everybody, but since i'm built to over ...

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How Did I Miss This Derek Sivers Created Site?

March 27, 2010

I guess MusicThoughts has been around for awhile. But somehow I missed it; and I'm a person that loves music and loves quotes. It took a tweet of a post on The Indie Connect Social Network to click through and discover it. “If you're going to sweep the floor, sweep it better than anybody in ...

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Labels Fight for #1: Hits' Q1 Market Share Report

March 27, 2010

Record industry trade Hits Daily Double dug through the Q1 major label sales numbers and found some major shifts in the label landscape. For the first time in recent memory, Sony essentially tied Universal for #1. Also striking is how much just a few releases dominate each label's overall sales. In fact, Lady Antebellum's “Need You ...

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Report Shows Big Jump in Smartphone Web Usage

March 27, 2010

Mobile ad delivery platform AdMob has released a report that shows that smartphones accounted for 48% of its worldwide traffic. That's up from 35% in February '09 fueled by heavy app usage on iPhone and Android devices. Mobile internet devices experienced the strongest growth, increasing to account for 17% of traffic on AdMob's network. Although the ...

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Spotify Targets 3rd Quarter for U.S. Launch

March 27, 2010

Online music service Spotify is targeting the 3rd quarter of 2010 for a U.S. launch. “We're buying server space in random parts of the states and there are licensing discussions too," Spotify Senior VP Paul Brown told Bloomberg. “But they are going fine because we're in a long-term partnership with the labels and publishers." The company ...