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Steven Hodson asks today if 2008 will end up being the death knell of the RIAA:I realize lots of folks have been predicting the imminent demise of the RIAA and the music industry since the inception of Napster and yet both are still here and still treating legitimate customers as criminals - or at least [...]

In what has to be one of the more brilliant political marketing moves of the century, Governor Mike Huckabee has chosen for the spokesperson for his campaign the legendary fighter Chuck Norris (although some would say that Huckabee didn’t choose Norris, Norris simply told him and America how it was going to be). Regardless, [...]

LimeWire has picked up popularity over the years since the death of Napster (the free, arguably illegal version anyhow), and the tendency for KaZaA users to get sued for file sharing. The biggest complaint you’ll hear from users is the constant nagging to upgrade to the Pro version of LimeWire, which makes oodles of [...]

SpiralFrog, the ad-supported music service, has secured $2 million in funding through the private placement of Senior Secured Exchangeable Notes. The Notes bear an interest rate of 12% annually with interest due quarterly commencing on January 1st, 2008. All proceeds from the net profits of the deal will be used to acquire [...]

2007 is quickly coming to a close, and it’s time to do all of those things you’ve been meaning to do all year long. We’ve put together a checklist to help you along, but we can’t do it all for you, so you best get cracking before another year flies by!Share This

Not that we need a big reprieve from the heavy news cycle this week.  It was a pretty easy week, as far as that goes.  Still, while the blogosphere might have rested on its laurels, the criminals of the social media space certainly did not. Apparently, it is true: there is no rest for the [...]

The holiday season is coming to a close and we finally had the opportunity to edit and upload the videos from the extremely popular (and noisy!) second MashMeet in NYC. We have interviews with VOIS, Zlio, Planet of the Grapes, iRoto, Tilzy TV, Camlink, Nicholas Carlson from Valleywag and many more. Thanks to [...]

A tragic story comes about today as we learn of the death of former president and CEO of eGroups, Michael Klein, was killed in a small-plane crash in a remote area in a Panama jungle, according to CNet. Klein, 37, died in the crash of a Cessna 172 in a remote area of the [...]

The Lane Hartwell controversy just will won’t die. Hartwell, if you missed this bit during the hubbub of the Christmas season, is a photographer who was a bit miffed that a photo she took was used without attribution for about a second in a music video called “Here Comes Another Bubble,” by a largely [...]

There are a few ways you can go with prediction posts. You can speculate wildly (perhaps a little more fun), make some educated guesses, or, take a look at some trends from the prior year and make some predictions about how they’ll play out when the calendar switches over. For my predictions list, [...]