Thursday’s Music Brief: MySpace, SayNow, DRM Study, Best Buy Offers Funding, Mufin, U2 & More
- MySpace Music Mints A Messy Music Feed
- SayNow Connects Artists To Fans Via Voice Mail & Text
- More Fallout: HDMusic Files For Bankruptcy
- Video: Azoff On Ticketing, Live Nation & The State Of Record Business
- D.I.Y. – A Simple Strategy To Increase Your Twitter Followers
MORE MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS:
- Landmark study: DRM truly does make pirates out of us all. (ars) Read the lengthy study or a summary.
- Hoping to take advantage of deflated prices caused by the economic downurn, Best Buy launched a Digital Media Fund to be managed by Fuse (FKA Velocity) (Reuters)
- Mufin, the sound driven music recommendation engine announced new features including an iTunes plug-in and full video playlist functions on the mufin site.
- Music Labels Cut Friendlier Deals With Start-Ups (NY Times) Spotify, imeem and Rhapsody are mentioned.
- EU sues Sweden, demands law requiring ISPs to retain data. (ars)
- U2 manager: 'Ultimately free is the enemy of good' (cNet) I believe Paul makes an over-simplified and judgmental argument. Is Google not a "good" product because it is free? Was U2 a "less good" band when thay played for me in the early days for $1000 instead of $1 million?
- Didiom Continues to Expand Mobile MP3 Store by Adding 1,500 Record Labels (press release)
- JVC, Japan Signs Deal With BFM Digital For Distribution Of Digital Content (press release)
- Dublin-based music video website Muzu.tv, whose founders were named as 2009 Net Visionaries by the Irish Internet Association (IIA) just last week, has signed a major deal with Warner Music. (Irish Times)
- Cool Uses of YouTube APIs (YouTube)