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The ever astute Paul Resnikoff offers his viewpoint on the brewing battle between publishers and digital music provider MusicNet. This is a perspective worthy of consideration. Back in the early 90s when I was in the wholesale […]
Tags: Music (Business)
R.E.M. Releases New Videos Under Open Source License : “R.E.M. today released 11 videos for the first song from their forthcoming album, all in MP4 format in HD and under an open source license. ‘Supernatural Serious,’ is the first single from the band’s next album, ‘Accelerate,’ due to be released April 1st.“
(Via ReadWriteWeb .)
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While similar to countless similar rants of years past (clueless record industry should provide better digital offerings and value to consumers), I have to give this one a lot of credit for pointing out the value of “convenience services and marketing”. Sure…there are always folks for whom “free” will be the prime motivator, but […]
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Web 3.0: Is It About Personalization?: “On the UK’s Guardian newspaper site today, writer Jemina Kiss suggested that Web 3.0 will be about recommendation. ‘If web 2.0 could be summarized as interaction, web 3.0 must be about recommendation and personalization,’ she wrote. Using Last.fm and Facebook’s Beacon as an example, Kiss painted a picture of […]
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Social Sites Don’t Deliver Big Ad Gains - WSJ.com: “As Microsoft Corp. makes a $44.6 billion bet on Internet advertising with its unsolicited offer for Yahoo Inc., there are signs that some of the biggest new places where consumers are flocking on the Web — social networking and video-sharing sites — are yielding advertising revenue […]
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