Reaching Out »

It’s interesting to me how creative people are utilizing the new various media tools to build an audience and earn money from their art.
Take Terra Naomi for example. Terra’s YouTube Channel is the number one subscribed musician channel on the site. Her latest video posted just two days ago already has over 7000 views. Some of her videos [...]

Product Placement - Social Network Style »

Just read this article on the Wall Street Journal Online about companies paying for profiles on MySpace. The story goes like this.
Companies want to create a higher profile for a particular product or service, like a movie, but they can’t promote their goods via a MySpace profile without permission. If you’re willing to pay you [...]

Easy As Cake »

I’m a big fan of businesses getting involved in social communities rather than throwing down hard earned cash to advertise on them via links and banners. Cakewalk, a maker of digital music production software, has done just that.
You can find Cakewalk of MySpace at http://myspace.com/cakewalksoftware. A good move for these folks. After all, many music [...]

AIM Pages »

Steve Rubel informs us that AIM Pages has launched their Beta. Is there a difference between a launch and a Beta these days? That’s a discussion for another post.
I’ve heard people say that this is AOL’s attempt to “kill” MySpace. Fat chance on that. MySpace is a Social Media juggernaught and they have too much [...]