Site review: Grooveshark Lite
Online music community Grooveshark has recently introduced Grooveshark Lite, which lets users search for and listen to music on demand.
There are a number of useful music sites out there, so let's see how Grooveshark compares with Last.fm, Deezer, Imeem and other rivals....
The five factors of compelling content
I've been involved with online content in a number of capacities. I've run my own online content ventures, consulted with people running online content businesses and obviously am a content producer myself.
For consumers and advertisers, content is still king
Recently, Viacom's CEO Philippe Dauman declared that content is still king. Some, myself included, never believed it had been dethroned.
Q&A: Paul Ricard of on-demand music site Deezer
Deezer, based in France, is an on-demand music streaming service, which offers an impressive range of tracks from a mix of major labels and independents.
It recently launched in the UK (see our review of the site), and we have been talking to UK Manager Paul Ricard to find out more...
The Web Week in Review
Given my posts on Viacom's $1bn Google/YouTube lawsuit, it's no surprise that I was in a legal state of mind this week and that the news that caught my attention typically had some legal aspect to it.
Site review: Deezer - free on-demand music
Formerly known as Blogmusik.net, Deezer offers free, on-demand music from record labels, including Universal, Warner and Sony BMG.
Already popular in France, it has recently launched a version of its service in the UK. We have been taking a look...
Does on-demand content lead to on-demand advertising?
For the past 300 years or so, media has been a one-to-many broadcast model. But now we see TV, radio and press all moving towards an on-demand model.
In a world where content is delivered on-demand, would on-demand advertising be a more relevant approach in the future of broadcasting?
Site review: Last.fm beta
Online music provider Last.fm is currently in the process of revamping its website, with a beta version running alongside the old site.
We've taken a look at to see what improvements (if any) have been made...
Should bloggers be considered members of the "press"?
Recently, Michael Arrington of TechCrunch lambasted the CEO of online music startup TuneCore, Jeff Price, for refusing to provide one of his interns, Peter, with information about his company's funding.
I criticized Arrington for what I saw as an unnecessary use of his "podium" to disparage Price when he had no legitimate reason to do so.
Has Last.fm fallen victim to the demands of a record label?
In a past post, I discussed the fact that record labels are increasingly demanding an "arm and a leg" for the rights to their music catalogs.
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