Posts Tagged with ‘myspace’

Without a doubt, this is the best time for up-and-coming artists to be working for exposure.  Many industry leaders like Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead and others actively creating new models for music distribution outside the grasp of major record labels.  Current internet trends are also doing wonders for unknown artists, as artists can get material onto the internet on a variety of platforms with little to no cost, and with a much larger audience to target.  [...]

Let me begin by saying I am all for the advancement of social networking, web 2.0, and all the rest. In fact, I fervently support such advances that I find myself writing about everything and everything to do with said topics on a frequent basis. But I think I missed or misunderstood something: shouldn't social media platforms inherently be open to as many users as possible, not limited by issues like users' choices in operating systems?
On this lovely Sunday afternoon, [...]

The legal standing of much of Web 2.0 is based on the U.S. concept of safe harbor, which essentially means that no web site operator can be held accountable for anything posted on their site by the users. I'm no lawyer, and turned to an excellent breakdown of what safe harbor is and what laws ensure it from Eric Goldberg, Assistant Professor at the Santa Clara University School of Law, which he gave in an interview with ION Connection:
47 USC [...]

Everyone is all excited this week about “Data Availability.” Well, everyone except for some of the Data Portability folks, that is. MySpace and Twitter are hooking up, while Facebook and Digg are hooking up, and people are throwing confetti in the streets.
Or at least it seems that way.
I know that I'm not the only person who doesn't really WANT these little mash-ups, and the more I've thought about it, the more I've realized I don't want a social graph. And [...]

Web 2.0 has developed its own ecosystem, with application builders able to build their apps using mash-ups, AIR clients, and new apps on the backs of popular 2.0 apps already in wide distribution. Virtually every day we see announcements of new applications based on Twitter and FriendFeed and Google Reader, as well as Facebook apps, MySpace apps, and Hi5 apps. The real question, however, is what will happen to these companies and this ecosystem if one of the foundation companies [...]

I'm a little late getting to the Webby nominees announcement. I usually look at web awards as a lot of sunshine being blown in certain areas, but this year, I was pleasantly surprise to see some of my favorites nominated, many seemingly completely out of the blue.
In no particular order, here are my personal favorites in the website categories:
In the Charitable Organizations Nonprofit category, the standout for me is Kiva, which has been the clear breakout star of the socially [...]

Today the makers of the recently launched (yet oddly-named) Chumby internet-connected device have acquired $12.5 million in Series B funding, primarily from JK&B Capital, a new investor for the company. Chumby's other existing venture investors, including Avalon Ventures, Masthead Venture and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, were also involved in the financing, which will be used to “accelerate growth” of the San Diego-based company, as well as to expand the Chumby Network onto other screen-based web devices.
“We are pleased to receive [...]

Is it the end of old media as we know it?* R.E.M. has a new album dropping 1 April, but for those of us already using iLike with iTunes or our Facebook or MySpace accounts, we are in luck; 11 tracks from the album will be available for streaming and sharing a week from today (Monday, 24 March), one week before the album's release date.
R.E.M.'s release may be the highest profile use of digital distribution yet, and the surest sign [...]

I didn't want to rehash SXSW. But after reading both Kara Swisher and Mike Arrington's take on it, I find myself in strange company, because I agree with both of them, and this apparently puts me in the minority.
Two years ago, I would have sold my soul to attend SXSW. The past two years, it's seemed less and less about tech and more and more about a four-day-long party with the “cool” kids. Is it making up for time spent [...]