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Post Music to Twitter Using Soundcloud
The guest post is by Dave Haynes, OpenMusicMedia founder and UK manager for SoundCloud. You can also follow him on Twitter @haynes_dave. There have been a number of services crop up recently to allow you to post music to Twitter. But did you know there's three different ways to do exactly the ...
The Kind of Music Startups One Venture Capitalist Would Like to Fund
And His Unusual Way Of Turning Them Into Businesses Y Combinator a revolutionary venture firm that speciializes in funding early stage startups. 40 or so young entrepreneurs spend months together boot camp style developing their ideas into businesses. In addition to support from each other, they are surrounded by advisers and visited by experts who help ...
Study: Twitter Users Want to Discover and Will (Gasp!) Actually Pay for Music
According to a new NPD Group study, Twitter users are much more likely to be interested in discovering and engaging with music than the average internet user. And in some good news for the music industry, they are also far more willing to pay for it. According to NPD's consumer tracking, 33% of Twitter users reported ...
Youtube Uploads Soar After iPhone 3g S Ships
uploads to YouTube jumped 400 percent last Friday, the day that Apple released its iPhone 3GS, which contains a video recorder function and easy sharing features. In the last six months, meanwhile, the Google-owned video site has seen mobile uploads increase by 1,700 percent, the company said in a blog post. “This growth represents three things ...
Myspace Cuts 66% of International Staff
In a second wave of major restructuring, MySpace announced this morning that it will cut 300 of its 450 international staffers and close at least four overseas offices.. The moves on the heels of Facebook passing MySpacein both visitors and page views in the US and worldwide and just a week after the social networker reduced ...
Youtube Rolls out 6 Incremental Improvments
Rather then a big splashy make-over, YouTube has been rolling out an ongoing series of changes and improvements that marketers and uses should pay attention to. Download MP4 Files of Your Own Videos: You no longer have to panic when your computer crashes and you lose the original files of videos. Find the video you ...
Twitter Growth Slowing Despite Huge Yearly Gains
Twitter grew 1,448 percent from this time last year, but its growth is slowing as the year goes on, according to Monday data from Nielsen. The micro-blogging site logged 18.2 million unique visitors in May 2009, up from 1.2 million in May 2008, and up 7 percent from April 2009. Those stats make Twitter the fastest ...
Google Ordered to Block Porn into China
China's Internet watchdog on Friday ordered Google to stop overseas websites with “pornographic and vulgar" content from being accessed through its Chinese-language search engine. The China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center had told Google to “make immediate changes" and clean up the content available through its search engine (www.google.cn), the official Xinhua news agency reported. The ...
Tech Giants Again Defend Data Collection Policies
Can you anonymously surf the Web and peruse social networks without consequence, or are today's top tech companies compiling a FBI-like file on your behavior? More than likely, it's somewhere in the middle, according to Thursday testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Representatives from Facebook, Yahoo, and Google appeared on Capitol Hill to once ...
Senate Passes Webcaster Settlement Act 2009
The U.S. Senate has passed the Webcaster Settlement Act of '09. A similar bill passed the House several weeks ago. If signed by the President, the bill would suspend controversial royalty rates set by the Copyright Royalty Board while online broadcasters negotiate with labels, publishers and other rights holders. Many webcasters say ...
