Was just cruising Hypebot on a Sunday and realized TweetDeck made an update where you can update and monitor mypsace, facebook, and twitter all in the same place/time. Services like this are becoming common as it’s a major pain to login and logout out of multiple sites. We all know myspace is pretty much dead, [...]
Look out kids! MySpace may be headed to the Friendster funeral home! As the Guardian recently reported, the dirty old step father of the social network world has been losing audiences worldwide. Although MySpace is still doing fairly well in North America, in Europe it’s losing the battle. Facebook and Bebo are stealing the MySpace [...]
You’ve probably heard the story about the Canadian band, Mobile, who got their myspace url, taken back by myspace with only 48 hours notice. Yep, myspace is launching some mobile service and wants the domain. Tough luck for the band who spent 2 years authentically making connections with their fans. There has been outrage from [...]
Recently there has been some net chatter about Copyrighting your songs. My friends have asked me, “What’s the deal?” So here’s my take: Copyrighting is a different beast then it used to be. The internet has changed the way we look at copyright and the idea of ownership. Arguably when you digitize something (music, books, [...]
I wrote about this in my other blog but I think it bears repeating: If you’ve received a Myspace friend request then you have probably seen this attached to that request: “Klicke hier, um eine Nachricht einzugeben, die mit der Freundanfrage mitgeschickt wird!” “Klicke hier, um eine Nachricht einzugeben, die mit der Freundanfrage mitgeschickt wird!” [...]
Recently a friend of mine spent a pretty penny on getting a beautiful website setup. He felt that his money was well spent as now his fans have a place where they can learn more about his band. His band website has a slick feel and everything you’d expect it to have. But I wonder, [...]
Josh gave us a heads up about an interesting new music site called The Next Big Sound. The angle that The Next Big Sound takes is that YOU are a LABEL and YOU get to CHOOSE who gets signed. Andrew at Artists House commented that the one of the coolest things about the site is [...]
Myspace has teamed up with MTV to make money off of your pirated video content. …..Yay? Well at least Viacom and News Corp won’t be trying to control the content on the internet. In fact some people believe this is the future of video content and this could be the future of the Internet. So [...]
Wow a major label is looking to the future…. kind of… er not. EMI, is reportedly planning to launch a new music portal that will sell downloads and offer full-song streams. The site won’t be meant to displace iTunes or MySpace, instead EMI sees it as a way to do free market research into which [...]
3 New Interesting MySpace Changes
In the NRP book we wrote that although MySpace is getting pushed around by facebook it still holds weight for artists. I was concerned that I’d have to revise that during the summer as MySpace looked like it was going down for the count. But then Tom went and grabbed a second wind. So here’s [...]