Archive for the ‘Media Technology’ Category

Subscribing to Artists: Better Band Relationships

By jambrose | Digital Music, Media Technology

Last year, we were talking to a record label about how they could use our social media platform Media Factory to better engage fans and maybe make money again. My gut feeling then was that the future of artist-fan relationships was in a personal subscription model. As part of my research, I joined Take This

25GB of Free Online Storage from MS SkyDrive

25GB of Free Online Storage from MS SkyDrive

By jambrose | Media Technology

I finally got around to setting up my profile in Microsoft’s Live Spaces, and found SkyDrive. Besides being pretty impressed with the interface and user experience, I get 25GB of free storage

Facebookers Freak Over Terms of Use

By jambrose | Media Technology, Social Media

This is a message for people who are concerned with their privacy after uploading pictures to Facebook: Stop using the Internet. It is just simply not for you.  Don’t use email anymore, because any message you send is stored on your ISP’s server, the destination server, probably on a backup or two in some data

Facebook Connect for Publishers

By jambrose | Interactive Strategy, Media Technology, Social Media

Why should all publishers be looking at Facebook Connect? There are a number of websites to find examples of the cool stuff you can do by implementing Facebook Connect (FBC) into your product. Razorfish’s Jesse Pickard posted an article for insidefacebook.com that outlined a number of interesting connected applications, AllFacebook.com has a list of the

All Eyes Should be on Trent Reznor

By jambrose | Digital Music, Media Technology

Nine Inch Nails just release their new album The Slip as a %100 free download. I might go so far as to say it is a %110 free download, given the extremely open set of formats it which it is available: High-quality MP3s (87 mb) – encoded with LAME at V0, fully tagged. FLAC lossless