January 2012
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New Year's Resolution: Full Disk Encryption on...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/utJwOX on December 31, 2011 at 03:47PM The New Year is upon us, and you might be partaking in the tradition of making a resolution for the coming year. This year, why not make a resolution to protect your data privacy with one of the most powerful tools available? Commit to full disk encryption on each of your computers.
Many of us now have private information on our...
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Here's the Latest Video from Grammy-Nominated...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/tSHLy9 on December 31, 2011 at 07:35PM
So what do you think? “Cherries” is the latest video from the Grammy-nominated Linda Chorney, whose
December 2011
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Techdirt Writers Favorites Of The Week... And Year...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/uWOFq5 on December 31, 2011 at 03:00PM Rather than picking one community member to handle the favorites this week Tim Geigner/Dark Helmet came up with the brilliant idea that this final favorites post of the year should be a group post from “the gang” of Techdirt writers (or at least those who were around and not off on vacation in some exotic location). To...
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Galaxy Nexus, on Android Ice Cream Sandwich,...
Reposted from http://lat.ms/vSvLP3 on December 31, 2011 at 05:51PM
The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is one of the best smartphones on the market and in my opinion, it’s the best all-around Android phone out there.
Just about everything you could want from a smartphone, the Galaxy Nexus has — and that’s a really good thing considering that the phone is selling in the U.S. for $299 on a...
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This Is How Coldplay's 'Mylo Xyloto' Finished the...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/tLbp2w on December 31, 2011 at 05:20PM
As 2012 sets sail, this is the story Spotify must contend with. Coldplay was the
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2011 in Review: Internet Freedom in the Wake of...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/uRcoCI on December 31, 2011 at 05:44PM As the year draws to a close, EFF is looking back at the major trends influencing digital rights in 2011 and discussing where we are in the fight for a free expression, innovation, fair use, and privacy.
For several years, discussions about global Internet freedom have focused primarily on what are widely considered the world’s...
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The End is Here Before The Beginning for Beyond...
Reposted from http://dthin.gs/uxDuEf on December 31, 2011 at 12:27PM Beyond Oblivion, a New York-based music startup is shutting down before even launching a product, having burned through some $87 million worth of funding. Backed by investments from News Corp. (which also owns this Web site) it had sought to bundle the service with hardware and charge a flat fee, but had trouble selling...
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To Oblivion and Beyond. Wait No, Just Oblivion....
Reposted from http://bit.ly/syU3gX on December 31, 2011 at 04:26PM And another bites the dust. And another one bites the dust.
Betabeat was sceptical when we first heard about Beyond Oblivian, a New York based music startup that got $87 million in backing from big names like Allen & Co., Sony and News. Corp. The startup aimed to take on Spotify by offering an unlimited music streaming...
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Techdirt Writers Favorites Of The Week... And Year...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/uWOFq5 on December 31, 2011 at 03:00PM Rather than picking one community member to handle the favorites this week Tim Geigner/Dark Helmet came up with the brilliant idea that this final favorites post of the year should be a group post from “the gang” of Techdirt writers (or at least those who were around and not off on vacation in some exotic location). To...
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Dead? Social Media's Explosive Growth is Only...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/uKaL2c on December 31, 2011 at 11:00AM Social media, types of media where everyday people can publish and subscribe to what one another publishes, have changed the world. At least in the United States, though, their rapid expansion through acquisition of new users may be over.
Facebook specialist Eric Eldon published a compilation of statistics from around the web...
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Ambitious unlimited music startup Beyond Oblivion...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/sjBTwY on December 31, 2011 at 12:50PM
Martin Bryant / The Next Web: Ambitious unlimited music startup Beyond Oblivion closes down before launch — Beyond Oblivion, a New York-based startup with an innovative take on the idea of unlimited music, has closed it doors before its product had even launched, the Financial Times reports [paywalled link].
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2011 in Review: Four Cases That Promoted...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/s9cuYU on December 31, 2011 at 06:35PM 2011 was an important year for court decisions interpreting the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The Supreme Court issued two decisions that promoted government transparency and limited the scope of FOIA exemptions, while two district courts addressed how the government administers FOIA. All of those decisions will help shape...
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2011: Striking Pirates and Stopping SOPA |...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/uetVFw on December 31, 2011 at 12:07PM During the second half of the year SOPA dominated much of the news, but of course there were plenty of other interesting things going on too.
Below is a selection of some of the most remarkable topics covered here on TorrentFreak in the latter part of 2011. Part 1 (covering the first 6 months of the year) can be found here.
Feel...
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2011 in Review: Patents Misused to Stifle...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/uKCtre on December 31, 2011 at 03:44PM As the year draws to a close, EFF is looking back at the major trends influencing digital rights in 2011 and discussing where we are in the fight for a free expression, innovation, fair use, and privacy.
2011 saw what many had written off as impossible: patent reform legislation became law. Despite the urgent need for reform to...
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The New Web – Fragmented, Censored and Costly… but...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/vdJUsf on April 07, 2010 at 05:50PM For anyone who knows me as a technology guy, you know that I have always been a fan of Open Source Software (OSS). When I first started using OSS professionally at Anode, I fell in love with the idea of having free access to all of the LAMP software I needed, and being able to lean on a community for assistance. From the code, to the...
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MTT Weekly Recap: Goal Setting Workshop For 2012 |...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/sS7DEB on December 31, 2011 at 12:00PM
Where
The Music Industry
Thinks Out Loud
Rich Gordon: The importance of good email standards
Jeremy Belcher: Why You Should Give Your Music Away for Free
Leena Sowambur: Goal Setting Workshop For 2012
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Due To Recent Boycott GoDaddy Drops Its Support...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/vNALC6 on December 31, 2011 at 11:45AM An Internet boycott that started Thursday on reddit quickly gained success and spread across the web. Due to this event, domain registrar GoDaddy had decided to drop its support for SOPA, ArsTechnica reports.
“Go Daddy is no longer supporting SOPA, the “Stop Online Piracy Act” currently working its way through U.S. Congress....
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Hive Forecasting: Music Tech Trends for 2012 | MTV...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/tQXAJY on December 29, 2011 at 12:00PM
Over the past decade, music successfully went mobile with the iPod, and social with the success of networks like Last.fm and MySpace Music. Without a doubt, the driving theme of 2011 was not only mass social appeal but also “access” — the launch of cloud storage services and streaming audio providers, coupled with the popularity...
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Best of 2011: The Year Music Went Social | MTV...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/uT2P9q on December 21, 2011 at 02:30PM
While streaming music on-demand over the Internet has been tipped as the “next big thing” for a few years now, in 2011, online streaming services finally started to gain traction in the mainstream. Spotify, which had been making waves in Europe since 2008, launched Stateside this summer after years’ worth of stalled negotiations...
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Rara.com Offers Little to Cheer For | MTV Hive »...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/rzmoAJ on December 13, 2011 at 03:02PM
Don’t expect the deluge of streaming music services to stop anytime soon — entrepreneurs, investors and music execs are still looking for the next big thing despite a healthy range of quality options already on the market. Entrepreneur Rob Lewis, who most recently launched the mobile technology firm Omnifone, is launching...
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Androp Makes a Video Game Out of “Bell” Video |...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/w32nSy on December 06, 2011 at 04:30PM
Besides a successful indie rock band signed to Warner Music Japan, consider Androp a group a highly conceptual multimedia artists. Together, the Japanese four-piece are three EPs deep, and their September release relight the group’s first “full” album. For “Siren,” the first video from relight, the band rigged dozens of flash...
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The Roots Release a Gorgeous ‘undun’ App | MTV...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/tcJGfd on December 01, 2011 at 03:18PM
Even vinyl-loving skeptics who insist that an iPad app could never really replace the tactile thrill of interacting with a physical album will have to reconsider after a few minutes of playing with undun, the Roots’ companion app to the group’s forthcoming album of the same name. This thing is gorgeous.
Björk aside, usually,...
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Spotify Open Up the Third Party Floodgates | MTV...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/v785O8 on November 30, 2011 at 04:01PM Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon of Spotify
Spotify CEO took Daniel Ek took the stage today in New York City in what would be the streaming music service’s first-ever major press event. Ek opened the talk with a brief history of music and the company, from CDs through Napster and into iTunes, and how Spotify’s mission is to create...
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Hive Five: Google Music and You…? | MTV Hive »...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/uCcNDs on November 17, 2011 at 10:00AM Google announces Google Music Service in Los Angeles, Nov. 2011. Photo: Jonathan Alcorn/Bloomberg/Getty Images
Last May, Google unveiled a new project dubbed Music Beta to one million users lucky enough to snag invites. The idea was simple: A cloud-based music service where you could upload your audio files and access them...
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8tracks Expands Into Android With Help From B.o.B...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/tJts6t on November 09, 2011 at 04:30PM
Nothing beats the experience of listening to a personally handcrafted mixtape. Sure, services like iTunes Genius and Pandora can make infinitely long playlists and even entire radio stations at the click of a button, but they lack the human aspect of handpicked music us humans crave sometimes. That’s where 8tracks comes in,...
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Wale Selects Turntable.fm as His Opening Act | MTV...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/sicitH on November 02, 2011 at 02:07PM Wale performs at Coachella 2010 in Indio, Calif., April 2010. Photo: Michael Buckner/Getty Images
Since going public in May 2011, Turntable.fm has grown from an ally at the workplace into a bona fide rockstar, literally. As Wired reports, the team behind the social music platform have partnered with Wale’s Ambition tour to make...
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Radio Soulwax Launches Vimeo Channel | MTV Hive »...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/rV9NaV on October 28, 2011 at 03:21PM
Batuta Discos from Radio Soulwax on Vimeo.
Last June DJ duo Soulwax made news with an infectious multimedia mashup app/website dubbed “Radio Soulwax,” which contained 24-hour-long mixes and several one-hour films to accompany a handful of the mixes. Since then the app has been installed nearly 500,000 times and been hailed not as...
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Another Vail Tale | Lefsetz Letter
Reposted from http://bit.ly/tNhS5T on December 31, 2011 at 10:42AM
$116 a day. That’s what it costs to ski at Vail this week.
And that’s positively insane!
The dirty little secret?
Almost no one pays it.
I bought an Epic Pass. Last March. For $649. Good for not only every day at Vail, but Beaver Creek and ski resorts as far-flung as Lake Tahoe, I had no idea back […]
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LMFAO, Florence + the Machine on Track for...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/v1ZS9c on December 31, 2011 at 12:33PM
Electro/pop/rap duo LMFAO just scored its second No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with “Sexy and I Know It” and now the act is heading for its first top 10 album. The U.K.’s Florence + the Machine is poised to hit the top 10 with “Ceremonials” for the first time...
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From fake Apple stores to WireDoo: 2011's craziest...
Reposted from http://lat.ms/uGRngj on December 31, 2011 at 09:00AM 2011 was a big year for tech news—Steve Jobs died, Facebook and Twitter revolutionized the revolutionary experience in the Middle East, a new iPad came out, a new iPhone came out, and the world got to meet SIRI, Google+ and the Kindle Fire.
It was also a hilarious year, as tech reporters and savvy Facebook sharers and...
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2011: Piracy Wars and Internet Censorship |...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/s7BG91 on December 31, 2011 at 09:20AM At the end of the year when new developments draw to a close, it’s time to take a look back and take stock. Below is our overview of some of the most interesting events we reported during the first half of 2011.
Take a deep breath…
January
After pressure from the entertainment industries, Google started to censor piracy-related...
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New video: about being a Futurist, the future of...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/tjFUkK on December 31, 2011 at 09:18AM
Interview with Futurist Gerd Leonhard
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Goal Setting Workshop For 2012 | hypebot
Reposted from http://bit.ly/vyogOs on December 31, 2011 at 08:10AM Ready for the new year? With each new year, people make resolutions that usually are abandoned and not kept. On Music Think Tank, Leena Sowambur has posted a presentation on goal setting that can help you get to where you want to be or at least get you closer to attaining your goals. Make 2012 memorable!
“2012 is upon us...
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US Radio versus Music Services: A comparison of...
Reposted from http://davidtouve.com/2011/12/18/us-radio-versus-music-services-a-comparison-of-the-value-of-spins-versus-streams/ on December 18, 2011 at 03:56PM
Following on a estimate of the music industry collections from UK Radio stations, I have done my best to estimate effective per spin per listener rates collected from US Radio stations.
Importantly, the goal here was to estimate the...
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Ambitious unlimited music startup Beyond Oblivion...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/rDSK7P on December 31, 2011 at 07:44AM Beyond Oblivion, a New York-based startup with an innovative take on the idea of unlimited music, has closed it doors before its product had even launched, the Financial Times reports [paywalled link]. The idea behind Beyond Oblivion’s Boinc service was that it would remove the need for users to have to pay a monthly subscription...
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Beyond Oblivion shuts down before ever launching...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/sO2DlE on December 31, 2011 at 04:41AM Digital music startup Beyond Oblivion has shut down, having failed to launch a commercial version of its service. After rumours swept the industry yesterday (30-Dec), CEO Adam Kidron confirmed the news to the Financial Times.
“Beyond was always a tremendously grand ambition as the advances required by the record labels and music...
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Why Joining Pinterest is in your Best Interest |...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/rxD20A on December 31, 2011 at 07:32AM
By Francis Bea
Pinterest, an online scrap booking social platform, is skyrocketing in popularity and substantiates our fondness for sharing interesting tid bits from our own lives. Our memories, bookmarks and desires are just one virtual pin away. The social sharing platform recently hit the top ten websites within Hitwise’s...
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Digital Music Startup Beyond Oblivion Burns...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/vpkbbI on December 31, 2011 at 05:51AM Beyond Oblivian has sung its last song before launching its first product, an usual music service dubbed “bionic”. Funded by News Corp, The Wellcome Foundation and media investment bank Allen & Co, the company burned through $87 million since opening in 2008. Founder Adam Kidron blamed demands for advances to...
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Beyond Oblivion start-up crashes before launch |...
Reposted from http://on.ft.com/ufGuiL on December 30, 2011 at 06:45PM
An ambitious digital music start-up that won financial backing from News Corp has shut down before even releasing a full version of its service
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Please Pardon Our RSS Dust! We're Doing Some...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/ryJ1SO on December 31, 2011 at 03:36AM
You may notice some older/archive stories hitting your RSS feeds, and even Twitter and Facebook accounts from time to time.
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What the Social Web Can Learn from Burning Man |...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/ul85KS on December 30, 2011 at 09:00PM
Burning Man is, in some ways, a virtual world. It’s not unlike Second Life: a flat, empty plane onto which creator/participants build a temporary society however they can, making every decision into a work of art. Indeed, Second Life founder Philip Rosedale is a longtime Burner himself, and the Burning Man organization now...
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Damn It Google, Where Are My Magic Android...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/sFjrFa on December 30, 2011 at 04:29PM Back at Google I/O in May, members of Google’s Android team unveiled a new initiative that’s going to extend the mobile OS beyond smartphones and tablets — and take us one step closer to Back to the Future II.
Dubbed Android@Home, the project aims to bake special hardware and software into a variety of gadgets, which will allow...
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Warner/Chappell, Microsoft Announce Exclusive...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/rQbF39 on December 31, 2011 at 12:05AM
Music is being produced by a number of fresh outlets, including video game manufacturers.
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Slip-N-Slide Wins $9.1 Million Ruling Against TVT...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/vcvw81 on December 30, 2011 at 11:37PM
Slip-N-Slide Records was recently awarded $9.1 million by a federal grand jury, a judgment that follows a longstanding dispute with TVT Records. The decision validates claims by Slip-N-Slide that TVT unfairly blocked a release from rapper Pitbull. In 2004, TVT released the Pitbull album, M.I.A.M.I., a move that happened after...
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AccessIT, Blaze TV Distribute SXSW Across Digital...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/s3RZSC on December 30, 2011 at 11:31PM
Aside from live CDs and DVDs, concerts have traditionally been fixed in both time and location.
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EMI Infuses Content Into Last.fm Social Network |...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/w3hgys on December 30, 2011 at 11:18PM
EMI Music has recently brokered an accord with London-based Last.fm, a music-focused social networking play. Last.fm, available as an easy iTunes add-on, scans user collections and generates recommendations and appropriate social connections based on taste. The recommendation service also spins targeted radio channels and...
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Apple design master Jonathan Ive awarded British...
Reposted from http://lat.ms/tzLkwZ on December 30, 2011 at 10:48PM That’s Sir Jony Ive to you.
As of the new year Apple’s head of design, Jonathan Ive, will be a knight of the British Empire. The London-born engineer has been the lead designer at Apple for more than 15 years and grew to become the “spiritual partner” of the company late co-founder Steve Jobs, according to...
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Verizon: Recent 4G LTE outages are 'growing pains'...
Reposted from http://lat.ms/rUXVIy on December 30, 2011 at 10:33PM
Verizon Wireless’ 4G LTE network, normally known for its speed and stability, has had a rough time this month with three nationwide outages.
So what’s the problem? Well, according to Verizon, this is all just some “growing pains.”
“The Verizon Wireless 4GLTE Network is BY FAR the largest and the...
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New Year's Message: From Optimism And...
Reposted from http://bit.ly/tCIo7C on December 30, 2011 at 10:39PM
For the past few years, we’ve had a bit of a New Year’s tradition here at Techdirt. The “final” post I put up for the year is a discussion on, well, awesomeness. Three years ago, it was “on staying happy”, in response to people complaining that reading Techdirt made them upset, and wondering...
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Why I Think Tomahawk is the Future of Music...
If you follow me on Twitter then you know I have been very vocal lately about the new media player (nay, music player) called Tomahawk. Perhaps some of you hopped over to the site, looked at the screenshot and thought… “oh, yet another spreadsheet for music files”. If you did, I urge you to look further as it is so much more.
Instead of me explaining the features (you can get...