Who Says the Web Doesn't Pay? Gawker Boss Nick Denton Says He'll Shell Out...
Got a great story, but don’t want to write it yourself? Drop Nick Denton a line: The Gawker Media boss says he’s going to start opening up his checkbook occasionally for people with amazing tales and...
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Web Video Viewers Forget About Michael Jackson
Remember when Michael Jackson was one of the biggest things on the Web? So 10 days ago. So says video views tracker TubeMogul, which illustrates its argument via a nifty interactive chart at the bottom...
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Music's Sales Slump Slowed–But Not Stopped–By Michael Jackson and the Beatles
I don’t normally bother providing you with updates on the music industry’s revenue because the update has been the same for most of the last decade: Each quarter, the industry’s collective sales...
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We Are The World! Sony, Michael Jackson's Estate Working With iTunes, After All.
Correction: A Michael Jackson rep says that contrary to the report below, Jackson’s new album will be available on iTunes Oct. 27, though the “rest of the details are still be sorted.” My apologies for...
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iTunes Michael Jackson Policy: Want the Song? Buy the Album.
Want to get Michael Jackson’s new single? You will be able to get it on iTunes this month, contrary to earlier reports. But there’s a catch: You’re going to have to buy some of the late singer’s other...
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A Bing Bug? If Not, How Did This Dude Beat Out Megan Fox and the Even...
Since Bing only debuted at mid-year (and launched at the D: All Things Digital conference too), BoomTown is willing to cut it some slack. Until the Microsoft (MSFT) search service revealed on its blog...
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Search Users Evidently Just a Bunch of Megan Fox-Ogling, WWE-Patronizing...
If our search engine queries are, on some level, a reflection of who we are as a people, then we are a sorry, sorry lot indeed. Google, Microsoft and Yahoo all released their lists of the top search...
View ArticlePomplamoose: Inspired by Avant-Garde Film and Michael Jackson, a Hit on YouTube
Indie rockers Nataly Dawn and Jack Conte are pioneers in the new VideoSong movement, soon to hit a computer near you. The Stanford University graduates in the summer of 2008 formed the band...
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BoomTown Decodes Google CEO Schmidt's Shut-Up-You-Whiny-News-Folk Op-Ed (So...
Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. Google CEO Eric Schmidt did one of his patented throat-clearers in an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal today and it pretty much begs for...
View ArticleThanks, Tiger! Love, Yahoo.
Tiger Woods may be losing fans in some quarters, but he has one in Carol Bartz, Yahoo’s (YHOO) chief executive. “God bless Tiger,” she said during an investors conference Tuesday, for the “huge” uptick...
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Viral Video: Get Out Your 3-D Glasses for the Michael Jackson Grammy Tribute...
While an iPad out in the wild–held up by Stephen Colbert–got a lot of ink, here’s a video from last night’s Grammy Awards, which went all “Avatar” during a tribute to the late Michael Jackson–when a...
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Surprise of the Day: People Still Buying (Some) Music
The music industry’s decline has been so prolonged that this now qualifies as a man-bites-dog story: Sony says its music sales actually went up, just a bit, in the last quarter. The conglomerate’s...
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Groupon's Andrew Mason Speaks!
The last time I really was truly bullish on a start-up and its founder–BoomTown’s motto is wait-and-see rather than hype-it-up–was AdMob’s Omar Hamoui. That turned out pretty well, with the sale of...
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A Deal on a Haircut? That's What Friends Are For
Last week, I went to my hair salon and paid half of what I usually spend because of a deal that I—and more than 2,000 other people—bought online two months earlier. When I bought the deal, I suggested...
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The Web Survives the Stock Market Crash
Well, that was an exciting few minutes, right? In case you missed it: The markets just tanked–the Dow dropped a thousand points–and then came back. Blame Greece and/or a trader who is very bad at his...
View ArticleRecord Labels Sue Over Use of Music on Adult Sites
Singer Justin Timberlake might say he’s bringing sexy back, but a new lawsuit alleges online pornography companies are using his song to bring sexy a little too far. Eleven record labels including...
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Viral Video: Kanye West's 34-Minute Music Video (No, Really!)
You have to hand it to the ego-soaked imagination of singer Kanye West, who has debuted what appears to be the longest music video of all time for his song “Runaway.” It’s not just his Twitter rants...
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Michael Jackson Can't Help Sony Music Any More
Michael Jackson was such a huge star that he was able to stop the music industry’s perpetual slide: In the aftermath of his death last year, sales perked up at Sony’s music arm, which puts out the...
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Shocking Bieber Upset: Oil Spill Tops Twitter's 2010 Trends
Although World Cup tweeting caused record high volume and infrastructure demands on Twitter, the most-discussed topic on Twitter in 2010 was actually the Gulf oil spill, said the San Francisco-based...
View ArticleMichael Jackson Tribute Concert Streaming Live on Facebook Pay-Per-View
To see the Oct. 8 Michael Jackson tribute concert in person, you’ll need to spend up to $196 to get into the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales. Or you can hop onto Facebook: “F-commerce” company...
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