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YouTube Sets Its Sights on Independent Musicans
YouTube wants to rock MySpace. The Google-owned video site is expected to announce Wednesday a new program, dubbed Musicians Wanted, to lure independent musicians to its social- networking site. The program targets independent artists, offering them an easy way to create their own home page, or channel, on YouTube and share in the ad revenues generated ...
Spotify: The Savior, or the Destroyer of Music?
Daniel Ek, chief executive of the music streaming service Spotify, spoke to a crowd of 2,000 SXSW attendees on Tuesday - virtually none of whom are legally allowed to use his service. Until it successfully navigates the lions den of U.S. licensing laws, the largest music market in the world will be closed to Spotify. Judging ...
Google's Traffic is Giant, Which is Why It Should Be Your ISP
Everybody knows Google is one of the net's big kids, but how big is it exactly? Well, as Arbor Networks measures it, if Google were an ISP it would be the third largest in the world and the fastest growing -- if you are measuring the amount of traffic passed from its network to another. Arbor ...
Venezuela Denies Plans to Censor Internet
Venezuela is not planning to censor the Web or to shut down social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook, officials said on Monday, after President Hugo Chavez called for regulation of the Internet. Opposition leaders, bloggers and media freedom groups are worried Chavez's socialist government is preparing to clamp down on the networking sites or ...
Google Appears to Drop Censorship in China
Internet giant denies change, but famous Tank Man picture now accessible. Once censored, the picture could be seen over the Internet in China Tuesday. Web sites dealing with subjects such as the Tiananmen Square democracy protests, Tibet and regional independence movements could all be accessed through Google's Chinese search engine Tuesday, after the company said it ...
Tech Industry Cheers for FCC Broadband Plan
The FCC's national broadband plan has arrived. After 36 public workshops, nine field hearings, 31 public notices that produced 75,000 pages of public comments, 131 blog posts, and 335,000 Twitter followers, the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday finally released its 376-page plan for providing the country with broadband service. The document--which was mandated by last year's ...
How Privacy Vanishes Online
If a stranger came up to you on the street, would you give him your name, Social Security number and email address? Yet people often dole out all kinds of personal information on the Internet that allows such identifying data to be deduced. Services like Facebook, Twitter and Flickr are oceans of personal minutiae -- birthday ...
MOG's Hyman: Subscription Music's Time Has Come
Most of this video form paidContent's 2010 conference panel “The Truth About the Subscription Business" is an informative look at print media's struggles and plans with paid subscriptions. But starting at about 7 minutes in, MOG CEO David Hyman explains why now is the time for subscription music and reveals that MOG will soon add seamless ...
'Dot Com' Domain Celebrates 25th Birthday
Monday marked the 25th anniversary of the .com domain, according to VeriSign. On March 15, 1985, Symbolics.com was the first domain to register via a “.com" address. Though it took another decade for .com to really catch on, there are now 80 million .com Web sites, including 11.9 million e-commerce and online business sites, 1.8 million ...
Your New Facebook Friend May Well Be the FBI
The Feds are on Facebook. And MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter, too.
