Wednesday’s Music Briefing: Apple, Music Startups, J. River, Ted Cohen Vlogs & More
- EMI.com Relaunches As Music Discovery Lab
- 7Digital Tips Toe In Free Ad Supported Waters
- Minty Fresh’s Powers Answers "What Is Working?
- 4 Dirty Little Secrets Of Music 2.0
- Video Interview with RCRD LBL’s Elliot Arono
- Hip Hop News From Pro Hip Hop
- Join the discussion: EMI Pulls Coldpay vs. Satriani Videos From YouTube
MORE NEWS:
- Top 5 Disruptive Music-Making Technologies (Epicenter)

Steve Jobs will not keynote this year’s Macworld and Apple says this will be the last convention. (Apple) Build a tribe, leave the chief at home and cancel its annual gathering? Makes no sense…- A list of 200 Digital Music Startups From 2008. (Music Ally) Writer Stuart Dredge deserves credit for even trying to build a comprehensive list. I hope they pay him buy the word instead of the post.
- J. River has acquired several of the digital media stores operated by MediaNet Digital (formerly MusicNet) including download stores for Samsung, Charter, Road Runner, La Curacao, Synacor, and Embarq. (press release)
- Online TV destination Joost is offering more music videos via new deals with some key indie labels. (press release)

MidemNet adds Kyte vlogging to the MidemNet Blog. Ted Cohen is first up with a video on Choruss and other efforts to liscence music at the ISP level. He drops the tidbit that it looks like all the majors, Merlin, A2iM and others are ready to endorse the Jim Griffen/WMG Choruss experiment. In his contribution futurist Gerd Leonhard looks forward to 2009. (MidemNet)
I think my fee will depend on how many of those 200 sites/companies are still going at the end of 2009 ;o)