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Must Watch: John Oliver's Funny, Smart and Dead-on Explanation of Net Neutrality
Net neutrality. “The only two words that promise more boredom in the English language are ‘featuring Sting,’” says HBO host “Last Week Tonight" John Oliver at the start of his brilliant comic explanation of the issue that should have every net user up in arms. Oliver explains the controversy and lets viewers know how they can voice ...
New Product For Musician Enhances Learning
Video Surgeon is the ultimate teaching and learning tool for musicians who use video. It can transform ordinary video footage into a valuable learning tool, thereby speeding your learning. Video Surgeon is a form of video analysis software. It enables users to perform video slow motion, zooming, and looping - and it can do ALL of ...
5 Expert Tips for a Faster, Stronger Music Website
By Damian Burke, web developer and editor of The Doughnut, from the Sonicbids Blog. This third installment is aimed at musicians who have a basic understanding of SEO, access to their hosting and content management system (e.g. Wordpress, Drupal), and don’t mind getting their hands dirty with a little bit of code. If you’re new to ...
Bandzoogle Upgrades Music Websites with Unified Store and New Design Options
Bandzoogle continues to release new upgrades to their website building and hosting service for musicians. Having migrated to a totally new platform in recent months, users are now seeing the fruits of that labor. In particular, a unified ecommerce store is available and new design options are appearing to update the look of sites as well. ...
Venzo Digital's Free iTunes Distro Adds Music Videos, Passes $2 Million in Artist Payouts
Venzo Digital focuses exclusively on providing free digital music distribution to iTunes taking a 20% revenue share. This week they announced the addition of music video uploads to iTunes in addition to music, ringtones and mobile apps. Venzo also debuted Intranet Voice, introducing voice navigation to their site, and payouts now reaching over $2 million to ...
Heartbleed Bug: A Musician's Guide to the Web's Biggest Security Threat
Ideally you've already heard of Heartbleed and are acting accordingly. If not, you need to know that a “crypto bug" in OpenSSL has been identified that, if exploited, “allows attackers to eavesdrop on communications, steal data directly from the services and users and to impersonate services and users." Yeah, yeah, sounds scary but what's a musician ...
Twitter Redesign-in-Progress Offers Fresh Music Marketing Potential
Yeah, the extra photos and tagging that Twitter recently introduced are definite boons to music marketers. But they're not stopping there. Things are getting all crazy, Facebook-ish, “media forward" some people call it. Lots of new marketing potential emerging on Twitter but writers invoking Facebook helped me realize how Twitter, too, may already be curtailing organic ...
Twitter's New Music Strategy: Vevo Music Videos, Beats Music Ads, Soundcloud Partnership
It seemed to be a widespread conclusion that the Twitter #Music App was essentially dead long before the announcement that it was being pulled. Though critics continue to address the topic from time to time, focus is now moving on to Twitter's future plans. According to two writers for WSJ.com and their sources, Twitter will roll ...
10 Point Plan for Growing Your Web Presence
By Chris Bolton, reposted from the HostBaby Blog. Building your web presence means you want to be in as many places as you can. After all, you want your fans to easily find you on their favorite social networks. But just being on a social network is not enough. In order to ensure that you are ...
Vijay Iyer's Album "Mutations" Got Leaked Early then Pirated. Here's What Happened Next.
While some people might think that music pirates wouldn't be that interested in a classical album from a well-known jazz pianist, the recent leak of Vijay Iyer's “Mutations" is a reminder that piracy happens in all genres. When Iyer discovered that his album had been leaked and then pirated a few weeks before release, he contacted ...
