hmm… what do you get when you take the biggest place on the interweb for connecting people and sharing activity with the best place for discovering new music content and such? well that is what a Facebook and MySpace plan on doing.

it seemed that major media companies rarely ever do large partnerships with equals or companies they consider “competitors”. frienemy “coopertition” is nothing new but more often than not it is usually nominal and on the surface only. but with MySpace and Facebook negotiating terms to share content: finally a partnership that really makes sense.
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Ever see those national debt counters at the IRS building that every second keeps on ticking towards another trillion dollars added to the National Debt. Here is an interesting counter: The Real Time Social Media counter. continue reading »

Is Email going the way of the handwritten letter, the telegraph, and the smoke signal? I would say each of these have important uses even in today’s technology rich world. A formal invitation, a chat with Grandma, and a distress call in the middle of no where are best bets with each of these mediums. That can be said for Email as well. continue reading »

After pulling the plug in December WMG has finally agreed to put their music back on YouTube. The deal include all original content as well as content in user generated clips. Wonder what it took to get them to flip flop so quickly…

Official Press Release here

The long anticipated (well for those who started working on it back in January) Valemont original series is slated to debut tonight on MTV and Verizon Vcast. The question is will people care? 

this is a strange one.  technology in the wrong hands can actually help the greater good.  has checking your Facebook account become such an addiction that in the middle of a robbery the burglar has to check to see if anyone has commented on their status update?

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