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Rise Of The Musical Middle Class Part III – A Global Perspective

Last week’s start to Hypebot’s series, The Rise Of The Musical Middle Class (Part I & II) pointed to a growing group of artists that may never ride in limos,. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 11/05/2007 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (4)

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MySpace, Others Join Google’s OpenSocial

Just a day after Google launched OpenSocial, MySpace has joined the effort to make widgets and other applications usable across multiple social networking platforms. With 110 million users worldwide, top. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 11/02/2007 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)

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Join “The Rise Of The Musical Middle Class” Debate

My post of Monday, "The Rise Of The Musical Middle Class" and the follow up piece yesterday has started a very informed and heated discussion. Many seem skeptical that my. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 11/01/2007 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)

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Googles Launches OpenSocial To Tame The Widget Beast

The mighty Google has decided that the widget playground that Facebook created needs to be open to all and is launching OpenSocial to make it happen. The offering provides a . Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 11/01/2007 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)

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Facebook Music May Launch Next Week

Co-ed Magazine claims to have label sources stating that Facebook is set to announce phase 1 of a major expansion into music at next week’s ad:tech conference in NYC. The. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 10/31/2007 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (3)

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The Emerging Musical Middle Class Part 2

I wrote on Monday about the emerging Musical Middle Class – a world populated by more artists selling 20-100,00 copies and making a living through direct sales, touring, merch and. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 10/31/2007 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (1)

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Rise Of The Musical Middle Class

THE NEW PARADIGM PART I – The digital music revolution has fractured media consumption into niches, shifted creation and distribution from the few to the many and nearly leveled the. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 10/29/2007 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (16)

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Friendster Opens To Developers. Joins MySpace & Facebook.

Friendster has opened its platform to outside developers for a November 30th launch of the social networking site’s first collection of widgets. They will allow developers to keep 100% of. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 10/26/2007 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)

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100 Free & Affordable High & Low Tech Music Promotion Tips – The Final 10

91. Flyer someone else’s show in a related genre.92. Make sure all important info is on the front page of your site: Gigs, news, latest photos/songs/vids/contents, etc. Make it easy. Continue reading