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The Paradoxes of Choice in Digital Culture
Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor i.e. What File Sharing Changed 1. Passive Selection Habits--It let us live with decisions not yet made and caused us to become more passive about their deletion. Such as, if a new album is out and you wanted to try it without restrictions on ...
Songbird Bug Accidentally Wipes Users' iPods
Just when the Songbird media player was finally shaping up into a mature application we liked, a critical bug has emerged that deletes all the music from an iPod when it's connected to the app. The problem, which the Songbird team is already aware of, lies with a buggy iPod add-on that can corrupt and even ...
New iPhone 3.0 Update Cures Headaches
Users will finally be able to cut and paste, handle MMS texts and more. (Did we mention cut and paste?) Reporting from San Francisco -- Apple Inc. finally plans to fix some big shortcomings that have troubled iPhone users since the device was released in June 2007. The company said Tuesday that it was adding the ...
Songbird Player Adds 7digital Integration
As iTunes is to the ITunes Player... MP3 download store 7digital.com is now integrated within the open source Songbird media player. Much like iTunes has its own fully integrated player software, Songbird users in the US and Europe can purchase and download directly from 7digital's 6 million track catalog to their computer or MTP portable devices ...
More Get Their Music Fix on Social Networks
Highlights of a new NPD Group study: Underscoring the increasing importance of sites like MySpace for music discovery, 19% of those surveyed said they listen to music through social networking sites, up 4% from a year ago Almost half of US teens listen to music on social networks up from 37% in 2007. Among college-age fans ...
The Converging of Cultures: MTV and Youtube (Part 1)
Introduction Did the MTV, the earliest purveyor and capitalist of popular culture, foretell future of the music video through a 'mediamorphosis' that converged the commercial culture that we had all come to know with the participatory interaction that the Internet embraced? If so, did it in turn cause its own demise by continuously sending its users ...
The Converging of Cultures: MTV and Youtube (Part 3)
Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor Context Collapse In some cases, sharing the 'same stage' refers to the medium, but for others, their stage consists of playing music in their bedroom and recording it with a webcam. What effect then may this have on our perception of the captured performance that seems to assimilate authenticity? Is ...
Watunes Offers Free Digital Distribution
WaTunes has announced that it will no longer charge artists for digital distribution to iTunes and other online retailers. The company hopes to generate revenue from ads on a new music social networking site. The fees that digital distributors charge have expereinced aggressive downward pressure in recent months with TuneCore, ReverbNation and others offering indie artists ...
Rapid Growth in Social Networking Worldwide
Two-thirds of the world's Internet population visit social networking sites eacmonth accounting for almost 10% of all internet time, according to a new Nielsen report “Global Faces and Networked Places“. In the UK social networking accounts for about 18% of online time and in Brazil its 25%. Across all territories, the growth shows no sign of ...
The UK vs. Youtube and the New Music Industry
COMMENTARY: By suddenly taking down music videos in the UK, Google's YouTube proved that it could walk away from the table. Music videos, particularly those just in the UK, are something that the mighty Google can live without. Anyone who has ever been involved in high stakes negotiations has probably reached a similar moment. To move ...
