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Kanye West recently announced via twitter that he is hiring for a new creative company. Named Donda after his late mother, the company will purportedly have 22 divisions and in his own words “Galvanize thinkers and put them in a creative space to bounce their dreams and ideas” with an aim to "pick up where Steve Jobs left off.” Kanye’s ambition certainly seems as big as his inflated ego.
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I posted a critical review of NAMM 2012 on Hypebot a couple of days ago and was met with this response by NAMMs Director of Marketing and Communications, Scott Robertson.
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Guest post by Andrew Martin of online music magazine Prefix.
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As more startups emerge featuring free music via such services as YouTube and SoundCloud, it becomes increasingly difficult to sort them out and decide who is worth covering. But Thorsten Lüttger, cofounder and Co-Ceo of musicplayr, an entrant in the upcoming Midemlab, has story was worth telling even though the service itself is rather simple and straightforward. Simple is not always so easy to do and part of the strength of musicplayr to date is its successful development from a minimal viable product.
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(UPDATE) YouTube now streams 4 billion videos daily, a 25% increase in eight months. 60 hours of videos are now uploaded to YouTube every minute vs. 48 hours per minute in May, the company told Rueters.
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Hackers Anonymous announced this afternoon that they would attack the web sites of Universal Music Group, the RIAA and the U.S. Department Of Justice. As of 6:30PM Thursday, a review of each site showed that the hackers had been successful. The attacks came in response to the government forced takedown of file sharing site Megaupload and the arrest of key executives. (Full story of the indictments here.)
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The Right to Re-Sell Purchased Digital Content:I've long believed that the pricing of digital albums, with the exception of the sub $5 specials at Amazon MP3 and the cheaper offerings in the eMusic catalog, too often fails to account for the loss of the potential resale value that purchasers of music CDs enjoy.
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One Quick SOPA Thought:I've mentioned it before, but the one thing that really struck me yesterday was the incredible power/platform that Google's homepage provides. It's something has to be used sparingly, but Google can instantly air its views or promote a cause without spending a penny on advertising or lobbying. (Though GOOG does...
