To promote the release of Defected Clubland Adventures Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, Defected Records founder and DJ, Simon Dunmore, takes you through a video montage mixing 10-years of Defected releases and stories.
What’s that song in the Acura TSX commercial?
Check out this track by PJ Hanke feat. Dee Clay, Future Of Our Love., which is featured in this YouTube video for an Acura TSX commercial. To date, it's got over 21,000 spins.
The original and remix are available for licensing for compilations. You can contact Netmix directly to inquire about the music for your upcoming release.
ULTRA RECORDS ROSTER DOMINATES TOP 10 OF DJMAG’S ANNUAL TOP 100 DJs POLL
Every year, DJ Magazine publishes a poll of the Top 100 DJs as voted by dance music fans around the globe. We don't really know if it's all that scientific or not, but it's pretty fun to watch who gets added, who moves up or down and who gets bumped.
Arrested Development – The World Is Changing
Arrested Development's latest music video, "The World Is Changing."
Google and Facebook to add music; MySpace adds iLike video to Facebook
Google and Facebook will be adding music to their offerings through agreements with iLike.com, Lala.com and Imeem.com. According to a NY Times blog post, next Wednesday, Google will announce a new feature of its popular search engine that will return with search results music files hosted by a iLike and Lala. If a user types in a search for Tiesto or Kaskade, the search results will provide links to pop-up music players and the user may stream the tracks directly from the search engine, without having to go to the site's themselves.
Editorial: Response to RIAA's file sharing case in Boston
I just came across this blog post on Boston.com's Metro Desk: Defendant's lawyer puts on a show in illegal downloading case.
Globe staff writer, Jonathan Salzman describes the courtroom antics of "Charles Nesson, the flamboyant Harvard Law School professor defending a college student accused of illegally downloading and sharing music online," has used to make the case that his client is not responsible for copyright infringement. At the time of this post, there were over 40 comments to the post. I wanted to share my two cents on the subject, which I posted in the comments section earlier tonight.
DubSpot Summer 2009 Class Registration – Last Call
If you don't know Dubspot, the music production and DJ school has quickly entrenched itself as the defacto spot to learn the tools, tips and techniques for the DJ trade. Whether it's making music with Ableton Live, scratch classes using Serato, or DJing with the Pioneer DVJ mixing console using DVD's, the school has a class for you.
Dubspot's 2009 Summer registration is under way and you'll need to jump on it quick, because I hear that classes are filling up. According to a recent NYTimes article about DJing in the dowturn, Dubspot enrollment has doubled to 300 since last year. Since the economy took a turn for the worse, it's always good to use the time to pick up a new skill. While some are transitioning to nursing and health care or other sectors, you might be thinking about leaving the corporate carer behind to do something infinitely more creative than crunching spreadsheets and building Power Point presentations.
Moderate your Twitter feed using TweetRiver or TidyTweet
Okay, we all know the power Twitter now wields over unfettered thought on the web. However, if you’re a company who has set up their first Twitter feed, only to find that competitors and those who either hate you or want to see you fail start posting things you might not want your mother to see, then check out two new services that will allow you to moderate Tweets before they hit your feed.
TweetRiver.com recently provided moderation services for the first Twitter conference, TWTRCON, in San Francisco. A few bloggers are already talking about the service.
From their web site:
TweetRiver delivers innovative and exciting solutions for a broad spectrum of companies and organizations. Some customers are simply trying to get a moderated Twitter stream onto their website. Some are trying to redefine how they engage customers from first-touch through customer support.
We know that each of our customers has individual needs. What solution can we deliver for you?
News & Media
- Publish a moderated news feed on your website
- Interact with an online community or fan group
- Curate tweets (or links in tweets) about news and events
- Aggregate tweets from multiple personalities into a single stream
Technology
- Notify customers and prospects of news or events
- Publish a moderated product feed on your website
- Respond to customer support issues
- Capture product, service, or company recommendations
- Power digital signage with tweets from customers or about your market
Large Enterprise
- Personalize a brand with tweets from key employees or executives
- Drive thought leadership about products or solutions
- Augment the call center with the crowd conversation
- Enable customers to collaborate via social media
Retail
- Cross-promote links and keywords from tweets to your website
- Publish buzz about new products or events
- Feature tweets from key influencers on your website
- Respond to local product and service requests
Not to be outdone, there’s a newbie on the block. TidyTweet.com promises to do the following:
- Automatic or Manual Approval of Tweets
- Custom Bad Word Filtering
- Whitelist or Blacklist Twitter Users
- Auto-rejection of Tweets from New Accounts
- Auto-rejection of Tweets with Multiple Trending Topics
TidyTweet is currently in private beta. Sign up for an account to test it out. It looks like it will be free for personal users. Business customers will have to fork over the toll.
Social Influence and the SIM Score
A recent report from Razorfish released today indicates that about 33 percent of consumers are not connecting with brands on social networks. There are of course two ways to look at this. One, it could be that this large untapped audience presents a terrific opportunity for marketers. The second scenario is that brands are avoiding social media.
Michael Jackson Sells 1.1 Million Albums In One Week
The King of Pop dominates the Nielsen SoundScan and Billboard charts yet again.