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Entroducing DJ Shadow's New Website: Selling Goods Without a Middle Man
Collecting DJ Shadow releases can be a bit intimidating. For the novice vinyl collector, frankly, it's hard to know where to begin with the San Francisco phenomenon. But with the recent relaunch of his website, Shadow's massive catalog became infinitely easier to manage.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsYahoo! and Microsoft Partner on Search Engine
It was announced today that Yahoo! will team up with Microsoft's Bing to form a search engine dream team of sorts, and while Google may not yet be quivering in its steel-toed boots, the partnership is still literally a big deal. Big, as in the 10-year planned partnership is expected to boost Yahoo!'s annual profits by $500 million.... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsMichael Ian Black and Michael Showalter Want You to Come to Their Twarty
Remember that episode of The Office when Michael drives all the way to New York to attend the Dunder Mifflin website launch party, only to find out it's an online party? At the time, the idea of an online party seemed perhaps a little crazy (maybe just because that silly former temp Ryan was behind it), but it seems he was actually on to something. Tonight, Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black will host a Town Hall Twitter Twarty, and all are invited.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsApple, Record Labels Team Up to Boost Album Sales
Very soon, your next album purchase on iTunes might contain more than just a handful or two of tracks. Although the project reportedly deemed "Cocktail" is characteristically still under wraps, Apple is said to be planning a virtual, interactive CD experience with every full-album download.... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsAmazon and Zappos Join Forces
Like the forested land it's named for, Amazon.com is big. Really big. Even bigger now that it has acquired Zappos, the internet's biggest online shoe retailer. News of the partnership was announced yesterday by Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh via an all-employee e-mail, and it's a bit of a shocker for all.... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsKazaa Returns, Legally
When free-for-all P2P software Napster stopped its services in 2000, Shawn Fanning's fallen flock quelled its music fiending with the quick arrival of Kazaa, which offered a similar experience: A buffet of music and movies, all-you-can-download, at the universally compatible price of free.... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsPortable Web Browser CrunchPad Coming Soon
Michael Arrington, founder of popular technology blog TechCrunch, is concocting a web-browsing recipe for a device poised to make netbooks look relatively gargantuan. The ingredients? A touchscreen, a browser and, well, not much else.... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsGoogle Plotting PC Operating System
Heating up the seemingly never-ending battle for computer-world domination between Google and Microsoft, Google has announced plans for its own PC operating system, an in-your-face jab at Team Vista/XP.... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsThe Pirate Bay to Become Legal After $7.7 Million Purchase
The word "pirate" in the 21st-century is no longer default-associated with just the riding-around-on-boats-and-stealing-things variety (although those guys are still undoubtedly around). Au contraire, the most commonly encountered pirate today is the illegal-downloading-addicted sort that frequent the insanely popular bit-torrent website The Pirate Bay. But one lawsuit and one $7.7 million purchase later, illegal pirating on The Bay will truly be a thing of the past.... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsStudy Says 50% of Country Fans Lack Internet at Home
A survey conducted by the Country Music Association produced results that exemplify a reality in the industry not often realized: 50 percent of core country music fans do not have the internet at home. And 42 percent of those respondents report they have no desire to change that.... read more
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