Greg Sandoval says “Universal Music seeing ‘tens of millions’ from YouTube”:
a music industry source close to the label said Universal will likely book nearly $100 million in revenue from video streaming this year. That figure includes video-streaming money from all of the company’s partners, such as iMeem, MTV, and MySpace. The source said, however, that [...]
About Cloudspeakers (from their FAQ):
Cloudspeakers … is a music aggregator of links to legal audios, videos and reviews. All these links are matched with the MusicBrainz Database. If you are the copyright holder of a review, audio or video we link to and you would like the link removed, please contact us. We aim to [...]
Blip Festival 2008 - Fitts for Fight (From Norway)
This can go so much further in terms of visuals. So so so much further.
Fitts for Fight are the Milli Vanilli of this scene.
I love this gratuitous goofy stem from my Billy Goat Stomp sample pack.
A friend used the phrase completely “white” services to describe internet music projects that are pure as the driven snow on a legal level. It’s about being unsuable. I was struck by this wording because it pinned down an idea that needed a name.
I think that both Rhapsody and CC Mixter would fit, [...]
Following up on the thread about Amazon’s MP3 sales in its first year of business, Finance Geek concludes that:
Few people care about copyright protection, which was supposed to be Amazon’s main selling point.
And we think many people — the kind of people who pay for music online, at least — still prefer iTunes’ [...]
Check out this bit in the Leftsetz letter about the web strategy of a rock star named Corey Smith:
You can buy the tracks on iTunes. They’ve sold 420,000 so far. When they experimented last summer, and took the free tracks down from Corey’s site, iTunes sales went DOWN! So, they put [...]
Cringely thinks that The Google’s motivation to do Chrome is fear that that Microsoft will turn off ads in IE:
Microsoft can do pretty much whatever it wants in this area. There is plenty of browser competition. They can hobble their own product if they like, though it would drive users away from IE — from [...]
Commenters on the Google blog entry about Chrome:
Commenter #1:
Isn’t Google Chrome just using the same rendering engine (Webkit) as Safari so you don’t have to test a site with Chrome if it works with Safari
Commenter #2:
the answer to your question is “no”. Web browsers are more than just a rendering engine. Chrome, for example, has [...]
Making high-quality software is hard. Every feature is a promise to the user that you’ll fix the bugs, and to keep your promises you have to minimize the number that you make.
I’m not supporting the Chrome browser.
If there are bugs, they belong either to Google or to the users. Google can [...]