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Opera 10 Browser Launches
Norway's Opera Software released on Tuesday a new version of its browser, Opera 10, promising faster downloads, new design and new features. Opera battles for the spot of third-largest browser maker with Google's Chrome and Apple's Safari, but is far behind Microsoft and Mozilla Foundation. Opera said the new browser is significantly faster on resource-intensive pages ...
Hypebot Revisited: 100 Free and Affordable High and Low Tech Music Promotion Tips
As part of Hypebot's 5th Anniversary, we're bringing back some of our favorite articles. This 100 Tips post needs some updating after almost 2 years, but aside perhaps from “Infiltrating Columbia Records Site With An Anti-Label Ad", it is one of our most read and linked to posts ever. There's lots of great and simple stuff ...
Pandora Refreshes Desktop Music App
Internet radio provider Pandora on Wednesday announced that it has released the second version of its Pandora One desktop app. In a blog post, the site's CTO Tom Conrad added that the new app maintains a simple interface while incorporating come of the “most-requested features." Among the new features are the ability to view song history ...
Cradle to Grave: The Untold Story of Digital Natives
Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor Among the population of one billion youth born after 1980, much significance is placed on their “use" of digital technologies. By doing so, we have, in turn, underestimated the major “role" in which a unique combination psychological and technological obsolescence has played in their daily lives. All the while, it appears ...
Music Blog Network Mog Gets $5 Million More
Music blogging network MOG has closed a $5 million equity financing round lead by Menlo Ventures. Long-time investors Simon Equity Partners and Scott Jones have also participated to the round and will be joined on the board by Sonja Hoel Perkins of Menlo Ventures. MOG has raised $12.5 million dollars in funding to date. A number ...
amazon.com Offering Free Downloads of 30 Different "World Music" Samplers
While the term “world music" is more of a marketing turn of phrase than a useful description, there's no doubt that a lot of interesting sounds get included in the category. Now Amazon.com is trying to encourage everyone to do a bit of audio globetrotting by offering free MP3 downloads of 30 different sampler albums of ...
#Jazzlives Twitter Campaign to Draw Attention, Demonstrate Support for Live Jazz
The latest eruption of the recurring “is jazz dying? controversy, prompted in part by a recent article in the Wall Street Journal (see previous posts here and here for more) got veteran jazz journalist Howard Mandel thinking about ways to demonstrate the current vitality and diversity of jazz music.Last week, Mandel emailed an assortment ...
Site News: A New Look For St. Louis Jazz Notes
If you're reading this post directly on the St. Louis Jazz Notes site (as opposed to via RSS, email or another site aggregating StLJN's posts), you'll notice that it has a new look, and some new features as well.If only for cosmetic reasons, a change was long overdue, as StLJN has had the same ...
'Weather Channel' Changes Music Format: 'Weather Report' in the Forecast?
"Callin' out around the world / Are you ready for a brand new beat?"--Martha and the Vandellas hit from the summer of '64 (video) written by William 'Mickey' Stevenson and Marvin Gaye. Around the world, indeed--from North to South America; from France, Germany, and England to India and Australia. With the flip of a switch, the ...
#Jazzlives: A Twitter Campaign by Listeners of Live Jazz
A grass roots group of jazz journalists and broadcasters, websites, bloggers, and presenters have launched a #jazzlives campaign on Twitter, using the social networking platform to demonstrate that recent reports of jazz's demise are, in the words of Mark Twain, greatly exaggerated. According to data from a 2008 survey of audience participation in the arts released ...
