Who says the music industry is dead!

As I prepare my presentation for the Urban Network Annual Summit, I cant help but to ponder about all the critics and analyst who keep saying the music industry is dead, this that and the other. But yet there are clear indications (no not Apple) that money can, and will be made. Look at Harry [...]

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Vertical Ad Networks Work! Or do they?

I read a very interesting post from Jason Calacanis (CEO of Mahalo) titled, “Are ad networks for loser/weak publishers?” Go ahead and read the full post, it is well worth the time. Here it is in a nutshell: Giving away your inventory gives it the appearance of being cheap thus becoming less desirable to [...]

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Fab 5 Freddy Launches New “Place 2 Be” on Zude.com

Hip-Hop icon Fab 5 Freddy, the original host of MTV’s seminal Yo! MTV Raps, and Steve Repetti, Chief Technical Officer of Fifth Generation Systems, Inc. (5g), will launch the “Place 2 Be” on Zude™, with Fab as curator. The “Place 2 Be” will be the Urban Lifestyle destination on Zude, encompassing music, fashion, cars [...]

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SplashCast Corp Closes $4 million Series A

SplashCast Corp. has raised a $4 million Series A round of funding, the company plans to blend advertising with the viral effects of social media. The company openly boasts on its site that it has served some 260 million videos already. “Brands have to do that if they want to stay relevant to that younger [...]

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3.21.08 webNews Wrap-up

LinkedIn continues to beef up; adds company profile pages. Joost web video player will launch later this year. Starbucks gets Social.

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Apple considers Total iTunes Access

I must confess, I am not an IPod owner *gasp*. I know…I know…, but before you lose all respect for me let me explain myself. I was torn between Apple’s IPod and Microsoft’s Zune, and researched them both before finally settling with Zune. There were many features that attracted me to the Zune; the built [...]

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Hip-Hop 2.0: Notorious Blog

Wayne Barrow, Producer of the film NOTORIOUS, has started a blog at the Fox Searchlight site to document the making of the movie about your favorite rapper the Notorious B.I.G (aka Biggie) [née Christopher Wallace]. Barrow and his partner, Mark Pitts, managed B.I.G throughout his career and have helped Ms. Wallace build the legacy of [...]

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Yahoo! to Add Video to Flickr

Yahoo is taking bold new steps to cut into Google’s 22% video streaming market share with the announcement of the addition of video content to Flickr, Yahoo’s extremely popular photo sharing service. Flickr’s video service, expected to release in beta in April, will not replace Yahoo Video which ranks 3rd in video streaming with 4.6% [...]

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The World’s Top 50 Blogs?

I came across an interesting post yesterday at The Blogging Journalist about this list originally posted by The Guardian. Some rankings and listings are to be expected…some aren’t. 1. The Huffington Post 2. Boing Boing 3. TechCrunch 4. Kottke 5. Dooce 6. Perezhilton 7. Talking Points Memo 8. Icanhascheezburger 9. Beppe Grillo 10. Gawker

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Clearleap closes $9M To Bring IP Distributed Video To TV’s

With a fresh $9 million in Series A round of funding, Clearleap Inc.’s concept is in its name - clear online video content leaping from the computer to the television. The start up company develops technologies that will expand viewer options for “what’s on TV,” creating a new model that brings the breadth and diversity [...]

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