Social Media

Will MySpace Music Stay Free? It’s Up To The Labels

At yesterday's TechCrunch Disrupt conference, MySpace co-presidents Jason Hirschhorn and Mike Jones were interviewed about the future of the struggling social networker. On falling numbers –"We have 120 million unique. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 05/25/2010 in Social Media | Permalink | Comments (3)
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Facebook Changes The Rules For Pages

And Forgets To Tell Anyone (UPDATED) Facebook Pages have become the central location for most artists, labels and music marketers on the social networking giant. But as with many things. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 05/20/2010 in Social Media | Permalink | Comments (6)
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MySpace Bests Facebook With New Privacy Push

Facebook users have been threatening a mass defection in recent weeks over privacy concerns. Yesterday MySpace jumped ahead of its bigger competitor with a public promise to simplify and improve. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 05/18/2010 in Social Media | Permalink | Comments (1)
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LoKast Social App Gains Transaction At Concerts

First introduced at SXSW, proximity based social network LoKast is starting to gain some traction in the music community.  The iPhone app has reached 125,000 downloads and 30+ bands like. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 05/14/2010 in Apps, Mobile & SMS | Permalink | Comments (4)
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Sign ACLU Facebook Privacy Petition

I love data as much as the next guy. It helps me make decisions and be a better marketer. I usually don't even mind it when someone uses data about. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 05/14/2010 in Social Media | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Rocktopia: A Virtual Theme Park For Rock Fans

(UPDATED) If it's good enough for Lemmy…  Music Mogul, Loudcrowd, Mixm8 and ToonsTunes and of course Second Life have  , as Music Ally pointed out, all tried to use music. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 05/13/2010 in Social Media | Permalink | Comments (3)
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Facebook Blows Past Yahoo In Display Ads

It took Facebook just 6 years to best the entire Yahoo family of sites when it comes to display ad impressions.  The big daddy of online advertising is Google.  But. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 05/13/2010 in Social Media | Permalink | Comments (1)
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Twitter Bug Enabled Forced Following

It was a marketers dream and a marketers nightmare. For a few hours yesterday a weakness in the Twitter platform discovered by a Turkish tweeter provided an absurdly easy way. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 05/11/2010 in Social Media | Permalink | Comments (1)
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ReverbNation Adds Facebook Sharing Widget

ReverbNation has introduced a powerful yet simple to use widget that brings many the assets that artists have stored on RN including music and video onto their Facebook page and. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 05/07/2010 in Social Media | Permalink | Comments (1)
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Nielson Offers More Proof Of MySpace Decline, As Facebook & Twitter Soar

Compared to user activity on social networking sites last year, Facebook and Twitter posted gains of 69% and 45% respectively in the U.S. Globally, the total minutes spent on social. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 05/06/2010 in Social Media | Permalink | Comments (1)
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