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Where the Grammy’s Fell Short On Bridging the Social Media Divide

By John Furnari | Published: February 1, 2010
They’ve been fading away from relevancy for years.  The street-cred of the Grammy Awards has slipped in parallel with the steep decline of sales for the recorded music industry they celebrate. This year was supposed to be different. A new strategy, and a call to arms. “We’re All Fans” was the tagline for the 2010 Grammy [...]
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Music Ally’s “Can Music Be Free?” Week

By John Furnari | Published: November 30, 2009
The guys over at Music Ally have a really interesting feature going this week - a series of Q&A sessions revolving around the debate “Can Music Be Free?” It’s a serious question to tackle, and they’re bringing the best and brightest out to take a stab at it.  Today they spoke with Robin Kent of Rebel [...]
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MySpace Buys imeem and What It Means…If Anything

By John Furnari | Published: November 19, 2009
MySpace purchased imeem yesterday for $1 million in cash, about 5% of what it recently paid for another leading name in ad-supported streaming music, iLike. If you told anyone inside the industry a year or two ago if this was going to be the fate of imeem, not many would have cosigned the prediction.  There was [...]
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Clarity In the War on Blogs? - Blogger Updates DMCA Complaint Policy

By John Furnari | Published: August 27, 2009
Back in February we covered an interesting situation brewing in the world of music blogging.  At the time, many bloggers were experiencing a complete removal of content from their sites due to DMCA copyright policy without any real insight into what infringements they may have committed.  Clearly this raised many eyebrows, but resulted in very [...]
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(More Than Just) Viral Video Ping-Pong XVII: Kuroshio Sea

By John Furnari | Published: August 5, 2009
For those that follow the blog, each Wednesday we indulge in what we’ve called “viral video ping-pong”.   Essentially Greg Cargill and I post the most compelling low-budget video clips we’ve come across in the past few days to illustrate how powerful compelling content can be on the social web. For some reason this one feels [...]
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