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2 New Google Features Could Help Artists Find Fans
Google has introduced two new location based features that offer opportunites for musicans building a fan base in their home town, as well as those on tour. The first, Place Search, was designed to make it easier to find local businesses along with maps and reviews, but it also could make it easier for fans to ...
Top 10 Things to Expect from Limewire Shutdown
This guest post is by David Barrett, he's is the founder of Expensify. Attention people of the year 2000. At long last, and to no surprise to anyone, your beloved Limewire has been deemed illegal and shut down by the friendly folks at the RIAA. Don't panic, we've been through this before. Here are ten things ...
6 Reasons Not to Quit Myspace
Yesterday, my Hypebot collegue Kyle Bylin celebrated the first anniversary of Andrew Dubber's Quit MySpace Day, even offering instructions for quitting. Blogger Steve Lawson agreed: ..."it's become almost exclusively the domain of spammers and blanket marketeers—musicians shouting at other musicians about gigs by bad bands on the wrong side of the world." Dubber even updated his call: “MySpace ...
Always-On: How Technology is Biased Against Time
In the past, when you called someone and the person was not home, a voicemail greeted you. It said that they must be away from the house and will call you when they returned. Then, cell phones came along. When that person was not home and did not answer their cell phone, the message changed. Now ...
4 Services That Help Bands Make Money Online
Mashable writer Brenna Ehrlich has done a great job at outlining four services that can help unsigned bands make money online. Each of them have been profiled on Hypebot in the past. However, she has given a much more in-depth look at how these services work and who they have been working for. From music licensing ...
Songbird: Combined Web Browser, Music Player
Songbird, founded in 2006, is a duel web-browser and music library organizer. I've just discovered Songbird, and overall it looks to be a very solid project. Since Songbird is open to developers like Firefox, there are tons of add-ons that allow you to optimize your browser for playback, music management, and social discovery. If you find ...
The Great Migration Away from LimeWire Begins
LimeWire has been ordered to shut down. The RIAA will now seek damages upwards of $1 billion. They estimate that LimeWire costs the record labels $500 million in lost music sales every month. From Download.com alone, LimeWire has been downloaded around 206,881,874 times. This news leaves the more than 50 million monthly users of the client ...
Myspace Reboots with New Look and Focus
Late yesterday, a long struggling Myspace launched its anticipated makeover and a new focus as entertainment hub. Taking a page from the Malcom Gladwell playbook, Myspace is now encouraging curators—fans who have “the reputation and knowledge around particular entertainment topics and emerging cultural trends"—offering tools to expand their reach within the social network. Music head Cortney ...
Google Introduces Music Search in India
Millions of users in India search for their favorite Bollywood music in Google. To make the process easier, Google introduced a music search tool. Users can find the latest Hindi songs, restrict their search to the 1980s, listen to songs by particular artists and stream all of the songs associated with a designated movie. With a ...
Cassette Walkman Departs on iPod Anniversary
Sony decided to phase out the cassette Walkman. Like you, I had not realized that they still made them. To most, it represented the first personal music experience they had. The whole concept of music being the soundtrack to your life spawned out of the cassette Walkman. Sound exploded within environments that had previously been silent ...
