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Ning Abandons Free Service, Lays off 40% of Staff
Ning has announced that it will phase out its free custom social networks in favor of an all paid model. Ning is popular with musicians and marketers building custom fan communities. “Existing free networks will have the opportunity to either convert to paying for premium services, or transition off of Ning," said new CEO John McDonald. ...
For Chinese, Web is the Way to Entertainment
The daily Web habits of a typical 18-year-old college student named Li Yufei show why American Internet companies, one after another, have had trouble penetrating what is now the worlds most wired nation. Li Yufei, an 18-year-old student at Shanghai Maritime University, finds Korean television shows online, plays video games and has 300 Web buddies. Gary ...
Hands on New 4G iPhone
Gizmodo has managed to get its hands on the next-gen iPhone, and has posted videos and photos of the new handset. At this point were pretty much certain it is this summers new model. Our good friends at the Giz have had the handset for a week, and despite not being able to get past the ...
Print from iPad, Cellphones with 'Google Cloud Print'
After the lack of Flash support and the “missing" camera, one of the biggest complaints about the iPad is that you can't print from it, with or without a wire. Google is about to solve this problem with cloud-printing, which will send your documents from a mobile device to any web-connected printer. I tend to view ...
Rolling Stone's Archive Going Online... for a Price
For the first time Rolling Stone is inviting its readers on the long, strange trip though the magazine's 43-year archive, putting complete digital replicas online along with the latest edition. But you'll have to pay to see it all. With a new site launching Monday, Rolling Stone will become one of the most prominent magazines to ...
As Apple Barricades Flash, HDTV Embraces It
Everyone from Steve Jobs to a member of the Mozilla team we spoke to at SXSW blames Adobe Flash for crashing their technology, and the lack of support for it on the iPhone OS Even for apps that began their lives as Adobe creations has sparked controversy all over the web. Adobe even says Apple's ban ...
Myspace Launches Events and Ticketing Platform
How does MySpace plan to stop the outward flow of traffic to Facebook and Twitter. Apparently, by connecting with them and an ongoing series of launches rather than a single splashy makeover. And today's announcement might have actually given artists and music marketers a reason to keep their MySpace profiles more up to date. Late on ...
How to Use Twitter to Promote an Album or Tour
3 Rules & 2 Tools For Twitter Success There's no denying that Twitter use is exploding (even @hypebot has 6400+ fans) or that it should be a part of an viral music marketing campaign. But beyond tweeting what you had for lunch to your 37 uber-fans, how do you build a following on Twitter and best ...
What's a Facebook Fan Worth? Study Says $3.60
What is the true value of all of those Facebook fans you've been collecting? Some social media specialists have done the math and it turns out that on average each fan is worth about $3.60 a year. The study does not specifically look at bands or fans of music, but its' clear that not all fans ...
Please Twitter, Don't Kill Tweetdeck
Twitter is about to become a much more robust platform for doing, well, whatever it is we do on Twitter every day. I usually call it “micro-blogging," but it's really so much more than that. It's my random thought register, a place where whatever notion is flitting through my mind--no matter how brief or unusual--is often ...
