Topic: Kanye West

Six Fascinating Things Online this Week

Watch Those Fingers Imagine you had the opportunity to meet President Obama in Prague this week. Now imagine that you had no idea who he was, and so you decided to stick your fingers in his nose and eyes. Such are the joys of ...READ»

Did the Web Help Kanye Outsell 50 Cent?

No one really believed that 50 Cent would stop recording if Kanye West outsold him, did they? Some wanted it to be true though, as was witnessed when this latest hip-hop rivalry played out heavily on blogs, as well as community and social networking sites.READ»

Kanye West and His Absolut Image

On the train ride home last night, there was an ad for "BeKanye" -- a miracle drug to turn YOU into Kanye West! It was a fun poster, done in the style of those cheesy supplement ads. And though it made me smile, it took me ...READ»

Kanye West, Have You No Sense Of Decency?

Our communication with each other has unacceptably coarsened.READ»

Spike Jonze's Newest Project: Resuscitating Kanye's Withered Public Image

In a short film created by Jonze, West plays an egomaniac rapper gone off the rails. Sound familiar?READ»

IJango - how to network market Google

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Wallpaper Magazine's Design Awards 2009

What do Kanye West, French architect Jean Nouvel, and an Aussie product designer have in common? They were all judges for Wallpaper's Design Awards 2009. The results were just posted. The winners include the new BMW museum in ...READ»

ed hardy Shirts

Its star goods are the shirts and there are of a certain stage in the purse contain: being made of copied leather; dual handles; ed hardy logo droop embellishment; platform bottom with feet; top zip closure; and creates a sharp effect ...READ»

24th Anniversary of the Electric Dylan Incident

When Bob Dylan took the stage with an electric guitar at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, he was booed by fans loyal to folk’s acoustic roots. Twenty-four years later, fans seem far more receptive to technological advances in music. ...READ»

Kanye West is Alive, But Memes May Be In Danger

Even if you hate the jackass who stole Taylor Swift's spotlight, it pays to know that Kanye lives. Why? Because the rabble have turned it into a Google-beating malware scheme that could punk you into downloading some bad ...READ»

Fast Talk: Hip Car Hits the Clubs

Jeri Yoshizu Sales Promotion Manager, Scion Torrance, California Jeri Yoshizu, 38, who runs lifestyle marketing for Toyota's brand Scion, has been helping local musicians produce CDs for more than three years. She is now ...READ»

MIDEM 2009 - Setting Music Free

Guest Column: MIDEM 2009 - Setting Music Free Authored by Hal Bringman on January 22, 2009 - 12:54pm. As Digital Media Wire readers ready themselves for the highly anticipated Digital Music Forum East, here’s an overview of the ...READ»

MIDEM 2009 - Setting Music Free

Guest Column: MIDEM 2009 - Setting Music Free Authored by Hal Bringman on January 22, 2009 - 12:54pm. As Digital Media Wire readers ready themselves for the highly anticipated Digital Music Forum East, here’s an overview of the ...READ»

Education: Making the Classroom Hot

"School" and "cool" rhyme, but, sadly, you probably won't find the two together in any sentence uttered by today's students. With growing adoptions of the latest technology in the classroom, however, educators are trying hard to ...READ»

Best -- And Worst -- Brand Extensions Of 2008

It's hard work building a big, recognizable brand. Naturally, once they’ve built one, most companies find it irresistible to try and extend that brand love to other products. Sometimes this is a good idea: Starbucks’s lattes are good; Starbucks's latte ...READ»

How Do You Extend a Watch Brand? Create a Perfume That Smells Like Watches

Nooka's known for their futuristic watches, but in a bid to become something more, they've created a strange fragrance.READ»

Universal Sues Grouper and Bolt.com

Vivendi-owned Universal Music Group filed a lawsuit Monday against video-sharing YouTube rival Websites Grouper.com and Bolt.com, accusing the sites of hosting pirated versions of Universal music videos. Universal maintains that ...READ»

Media: Can Google, Limewire Outplay iTunes?

The digital music market continues to be an exemplary battleground for the implications new media has on pre-established business practices. Startup gBox and infamous Limewire are venturing into the digital music market to try to ...READ»

Jay-Z Turns 40

The self-proclaimed God of Rap has lots to celebrate. Jay-Z earned $35 million over the past year -- mostly from a sold-out world tour and his stakes in the New Jersey Nets and 40/40 bar chain -- making him hip-hop's top player, ...READ»

Update: imeem's Final Label Match

I posted a few weeks back at length about imeem's success in securing the rights to stream from three of the four major labels' catalogs. (You can read the post here.) Earlier Monday, imeem announced that it had made a deal with the ...READ»

MTV Finally Returns to the Music Video Business

MTV launches a new online property focused on ... music videos! It's been a long time coming, but now users can look through more than 27,000 videos from MTV's archive, including live performances and vintage stock.READ»

• MTV’s Digital Makeover

Music to Save the Earth By

Starting tomorrow in Sydney, Australia and continuing for the next 24 hours around the globe is the Al Gore-inspired Live Earth concert, which will feature 150 performers in eight cities around the world. It will be shown on more ...READ»

The Digital Marketing Guide

How loud can you yell? How outrageous can you be? These are questions marketers have been asking for nearly a century. This paradigm shifted when Doyle Dane Bernbach injected intelligence into advertising in the 1960s with their revolutionary “Lemon” print ad for Volkswagen. For them, it wasn’t about how loud you can yell, it was about how interesting you are. Since the 1960s, there has been a blend of intelligent campaigs, but far outweighed by…READ»

Peder Seglund - Rock Band of the year

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The Politics of Investments

Friday, September 18, 2009   The Race from Bretton Woods Poignancy will not be lost in this edition of the strategist.  I write to you this week from Bretton Woods in New Hampshire as I prepare to embark on a ...READ»