Agile Music: Artist Creativity & Music Formats In the Age of Mass Customization
This guest post by Mark Mulligan, a respected independent music analyst who publishes the Music Industry Blog, includes the full text and main graphics of the speech he delivered at. Continue reading
Full Text Of Mark Zuckerberg’s Letter To Potential Facebook Investors
On Wednesday, Facebook announced its much anticipated $5 billion IPO and CEO Mark Zuckerberg sent this carefuly wored yet heartfelt and hopeful letter to potential investors. "Facebook was not originally. Continue reading
Rock-Til-You-Drop Connects Part-Time Musicians
Rock-Til-You-Drop.com (RTYD) is a social network, support system and promo site all tied into one that's dedicated to "supporting and promoting older musicians and bands active at a local level.". Continue reading
How The 80/20 Rule Applies To Your Social Media Strategy
The Pareto Principle, more commonly also known as the 80–20 rule, states that for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. In business for. Continue reading
Will Anonymous Attack Facebook Today?
A video of unknown origin, but allegedly from hackers Anonymous calls for a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack Facebook, this Saturday 1/28/2012. Some have question the authenticity of this. Continue reading
Backplane Launch “Empowers” Lady Gaga’s LittleMonsters Society
(UPDATE) Lady Gaga manager Troy Carter's move into developing music tech startups includes involvement with the low profile promo url shortener bre.ad and a new service called Backplane that "empowers. Continue reading
Creative Music Marketing from Wiz Khalifa, Twin Atlantic, Higher Concept & Thaddeus Clark
Creative music marketing doesn't necessarily require new ideas. Taking an established concept and updating it or fitting it to your needs can often give a fresh look to older ideas. Continue reading
Who Knew? Myspace Has A Facebook App!
Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Remember MySpace? It's now a music app for Facebook, the same social network that supplanted it. Continue reading
Anonymous Threatens Facebook Attack This Saturday 1/28 [VIDEO & FULL TEXT]
A new video allegedly from the hackers Anonymous says their the next target for a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is Facebook. After Megaupload was shut down in global. Continue reading
Social Media Success For Musicians – A 2012 Roadmap
There have been many stories and guest posts on Hypebot recently about how to use social media to market to fans. This seems only fitting, since 2012 will see an. Continue reading
