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MySpace Buying iMeem: A Plan to Beat Spotify?

Kit Eaton — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:21:48 -0500

There are rumors abounding that MySpace is in advanced stages of trying to social-network music system iMeem, and they set us thinking.

My Secret Love for Rhapsody

Chris Dannen — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:38:31 -0400

I exist mostly in an Apple ecosystem: I work on a Mac, call on an iPhone, and work out with a Shuffle. And yet, here I am, spending more and more time on Rhapsody.

The Most Innovative Companies in Music

Lynne d Johnson — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:50:43 -0500

Apple: The traditional labels -- and everyone else -- keep trying, but no one has dented iTunes' supremacy. In 2008, Apple surpassed Wal-Mart as the world's largest music retailer.
Warner Music Group: Digital sales were up 39%, thanks in part to a ramped-up MP3 effort in 2008.
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How Social Media Got Out the Vote

Lynne d Johnson — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:41:07 -0500

You're probably used to the site that dresses up its logo for a holiday, and Election Day, quite frankly, often receives that very same treatment. A visit to Google, Yahoo!, or AOL's home pages today are testaments of that fact. AOL's is even animated. But more interesting than that logo wearing makeup, or even the 24-hour news and blogging coverage on media sites, is how social media uses, well, social media, to get out the vote.

Tech Watch: Music on Facebook; Bill Gates's Rumored Think Tank; Amazon's Q3 Earnings Bad, But Good

Chris Dannen — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:00:08 -0400

Is Music Facebook's Savior?

If it's one thing that MySpace has over Facebook, it's music. MySpace Music has no real successful equivalent on Facebook, and the latter company's path to profitability looks unlikely without some kind of tunes application as a part of the strategy. If Facebook ever hopes to go public, it may have to sidle up to one of its developers and ink a music deal.

New G1 App Brings Free Streaming Music and Personalized Radio to Users

Saabira Chaudhuri — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:46:50 -0400

Available in stores today, Google's new phone, the G1, has already spawned a slew of new applications. Among these is a creation from social music site, imeem, that makes life just a little bit easier for G1 users.

The new application, imeem for Android, brings free streaming music and personalized radio to the phone and enables users to create custom radio stations.

Is a Push Strategy On The Web Better Than a Pull Strategy?

David Mullings — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:53:31 -0400

Today I happened to be thinking about my last few presentations at conferences, especially at the Global Reggae Conference in Jamaica in February where I was invited to speak about leveraging the web to promote Reggae music.

The short answer to the title of my post: Yes.

I spoke about the advantages of a push strategy and how it has worked far better than our original pull strategy for Realvibez.