ProTools On The i-Phone?

PodTech:Rza and the Legend of the Replicator

Basics of Analog-to-digital Conversions

Curious about how analog-to-digital conversion works? Look no further, here is a quick and simple explanation from an article on Ars Technica.

P2P Not Guilty Your For Music Business Woes?

This is a very interesting article from Ars Technica on a study that claims that the P2P’s influence on the demise of the music business is not legitimate as we thought.
A new study in the Journal of Political Economy by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf has found that illegal music downloads have had no noticeable [...]

Think Different: Throwing The Campaign Back In Your Face On Google Vid Top 10

Here is another of the effects of the democratization of production tools, somebody is making their own campaign that reaches thousands and challenges the status quo once again.  

Information Age…We Are All In The Soup

PodTech: NY Oil And The Future Of Music

Signs of the end of the old music business. This rapper was able to do it all by himself with a little help from his friends at YouTube and Myspace.You go boy!

Starbucks Music Give Away!

Starbucks will be giving away 50 million free digital songs to promote their wireless i-Tunes music service. Want to find out more? Click right here. 

Get It For Less At Amazon’s DRM Free Music Store

Cheaper than i-Tunes, but does that mean better? Judge for yourself, here is an excerpt from the Ars Technica article: 
Amazon has launched a public beta of its long-anticipated digital music download store, offering more than 2 million songs as MP3 files. Those who have been paying attention to the digital music business can probably guess [...]

Do You Want To Pay More For Your Internet Connection? NO WAY!

By November 1st there is a possibility that internet prices could jump up to 17% more due to the expiration of the internet tax ban.  Let’s hope it does not happen any time soon. Here is the article from Ars Technica.

Google Introduces AdWords

 
More innovation from Google. 
Google AdWords Introduces Google Gadget Ads, a New Interactive Ad Format

Engaging and flexible ad units give advertisers a new way to communicate with users online
Mountain View, Calif. - September 19, 2007 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the introduction of Google Gadget Ads™, a new interactive ad format that [...]

Google Getting Into The Agency Business?

 Google is at it again, they are kind of like king god Xerxis’ in the movie 300, whatever he lays his eyes upon he takes and conquers.  This time Google has made Andy Berndt, co-president of Ogilvy & Mather’s New York office an offer he couldn’t refuse.  Is this the beginning of Google getting into the [...]

Life In Music Podcast Episode 2 up on i-Tunes and Podomatic

 Hey guys, I just uploaded Life In Music Podcast episode 2.   On this episode I talk with Cuban guitarrist Richard Padron. Richard is one of the young up and coming guitar players in the New York City scene. He is currently playing with Brazilian legend Ze Luis among other great musiciansGo to my Podomatic page [...]

FREE MUSIC FOR ALL! The Music Business Model of The Future

Is really amazing to see that people are beginning to explore the possibility of giving music away for free and still make money.  This is a great article on ArsTechnica about We7, Peter Gabriel’s new company that will be giving away music for free the music because of their ad placement on every [...]

Introducing Zeno!

 Soon we’ll have studio assistants like Zeno, lol! No joke! 

Cyloop Launches Social Network

Cyloop.com has just lunched a social music network where artists and fans are going to be able to interact with one another. Miami based agency La Comunidad is in charge of the advertising campaign.  Here is the piece from Marketing y Medios.
 

“A Creative Genius and Forward Thinker by Nature” is Suing YouTube, Ebay, and Pirate Bay

The artists formerly known as Prince is not happy, not happy, and here is why.  Check out this article from one of my favorite blogs, Ars Technica.

Facebook the Matchmaker

Make a few friends on Facebook, get to know them really well and then move in with them as college roomates. This is how future college students are finding their roomates for the year through Facebook. Check out this CNN Technology article on the subject.

Finally! Ringtones for your i-Phone

As an i-Phone user I have to say that one of the biggest complaints I had was not having ringtones to donwload for my phone and not being able to copy and paste. Well, at least the ringtone part is taken care of now. Here are eight ways to get new ringtones for [...]

Getting Stalked on the Internet (You Could Be Next!)

Anything to get to the costumer, even if it means cyberstalking them.  I think this could get a little annoying.  Here is a piece from CNN that tells you about new methods advertisers are using to get to YOU, the costumer.