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Video: Music, Twitter and The Real-Time Web

(UPDATED) From The 140 Characters Conference Takeway: Twitter is a very useful viral tool, but don't expect it to convert to sales. Panelists: indie musician Matthew Ebe, Steve Greenberg of. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 04/23/2010 in Social Media | Permalink | Comments (1)
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Facebook Partners With Pandora For Social Music

Pandora and Facebook will be deeply integrated according to an announcement at the F8 Developer Conference today.  using Facebook’s new Open Graph protocol, Pandora  will stream music directly onto the. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 04/21/2010 in Social Media | Permalink | Comments (6)
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iLike Founders Leave MySpace Executive Team

The founders of social music service iLike, which MySpace acquired last year,are leaving the company.'s executive team. Hadi Partovi will depart MySpace completely and his brother Ali will now work. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 04/21/2010 in Social Media | Permalink | Comments (4)
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Facebook Soars To 41% Of All Social Traffic

According to comScore March data, Facebook traffic now makes up  41% of social traffic. MySpace ranks second at 24%. Gmail (which I don't consider a part of the social landscape). Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 04/20/2010 in Social Media | Permalink | Comments (2)
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Advertising On Twitter Using Promoted Tweets

(UPDATE) Hyper-targeted ads on Facebook, MySpace and using Google AdSense have become valuable tools for many music marketers.  But what about Twitter's new ad platform? In brief, advertisers select keywords. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 04/20/2010 in Social Media | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Ning Abandons Free Service, Lays Off 40% Of Staff

Ning has announced that it will phase out its free custom social networks in favor of an all paid model. Ning is popular with musicians and marketers building custom fan. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 04/16/2010 in Social Media | Permalink | Comments (3)
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Tinysong – Share Any Song In Seconds Via Twitter, Facebook, Email, Tumblr, StumbleUpon

The new an improved Tinysong makes sharing a song you just heard drop dead simple.  Type in a song and it generates a tiny url that link to operator Grooveshark's. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 04/16/2010 in Social Media | Permalink | Comments (2)
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MySpace Launches Events & Ticketing Platform

How does MySpace plan to stop the outward flow of traffic to Facebook and Twitter. Apparently,  by connecting with them and an ongoing series of launches rather than a single. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 04/15/2010 in Social Media | Permalink | Comments (3)
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Twitter By The Numbers

106,000,000+ registered users  300,000 new users each day  180,000,000 unique visitors a month  75% of traffic comes from outside of Twitter.com PS: Follow @hypebot on Twitter here.

Bruce Houghton on 04/15/2010 in Social Media | Permalink | Comments (0)
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What’s A Facebook Fan Worth? Study Says $3.60

What is the true value of all of those Facebook fans you've been collecting?  Some social media specialists have done the math and it turns out that on average each. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 04/14/2010 in Social Media | Permalink | Comments (4)
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