Speaking to financial analysts last week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spoke out on the topic on stage, saying, âWe have to learn from our mistakes. It was painful to announce the write-off that we had to announce, and yet we knew we had to take care of
Apple announced this morning that over 3 billion songs have been sold through its online music store.
Today, we announced that Tucows.com, the original software download site, has been completely overhauled to put Solutions to common internet and technology challenges front-and-center and to improve search and community features.
Visit www.tucows.com to check out the changes. We did our first Social Media Release (SMR) for this announcement. (I welcome suggestions and feedback from my progressive PR buddies out there in blog land…)Read Joey deVilla’s take on the changes on Global Nerdy.Get Ross Rader’s perspective from Random Bytes.
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I learned my ASL ABCs in Brownies.
Mr. Koole blew up his blog. He wiped it clean and started again. Bold move. I’m impressed.
I seldom listen to FM radio to hear music. Instead, I read reviews and recommendations for bands and give ‘em a listen (or a watch). Because the way I ingest music has changed from the pre-broadband era, I might be up on an indie band or two, I’m often well behind the curve on the latest pop sensations. I’m interested to see just how much.
#1 - Hey There Delilah by Plain White T’s
#2 - Big Girls Don’t Cry by Fergie
#3 - Umbrella by Rihanna feat. Jay-Z
#4 - The Way I Are by Timbaland Featuring Keri Hilson
#5 - Party Like A Rockstar by Shop Boyz
#6 - What Time Is It by High School Musical 2 Cast
#7 - Sorry, Blame It On Me by Akon
#8 - A Bay Bay by Hurricane Chris
#9 - Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin’) by T-Pain Featuring Yung Joc
#10 - Bartender by T-Pain Featuring Akon
Who the heck is T-Pain? The only tracks here I’m familiar with is Hey There Delilah (great track) and Umbrella by Rihanna because it is on high rotation on Much Music. Putting those links in (and hearing some of these tracks for the first time), reminds me how much dreck is on the pop charts. The High School Musical and Akon songs made me want to hurt someone.
#1 - Hey There Delilah by Plain White T’s
#2 - Umbrella by Rihanna feat. Jay-Z
#3 - The Way I Are by Timbaland feat. Keri Hilson
#4 - Shut Up and Drive by Rihanna
#5 - Beautiful Girls by Sean Kingston
#6 - Big Girls don’t Cry by Fergie
#7 - Sorry, Blame it On Me by Akon
#8 - Makes Me Wonder by Maroon 5
#9 - Before He Cheats by Carrie Underwood
#10 - Paralyzer by Finger Eleven
Colour me surprised. Half of the songs on the Canadian iTunes chart, also appear on Billboard (in bold). With the exception of the schlocky Carrie Underwood track, the rest of the chart is okay. My fellow Canadians have redeemed themselves. Shut Up and Drive (guitars, production, no Jay-Z) is a better Rihanna song than Umbrella. Makes Me Wonder by Maroon 5 track is alright, but not as good as This Love. It is cool to see the Sean Kingston track on this list. The Stand By Me sample and his unique vocal on Beautiful Girls make it a good summer track. Canadian rockers Finger Eleven’s Paralyzer is alright and certainly better CanRock than anything done by Nickleback.
Finally, let’s take a look at what people are actually listening to, over at Last.fm
#1 - What I’ve Done by Linkin Park
#2 - Pioneer to the Falls by Interpol
#3 - Icky Thump by the White Stripes
#4 - Starlight by Muse
#5 - No 1 in Threesome by Interpol
#6 - Mammoth by Interpol
#7 - Pace is the Trick by Interpol
#8 - Wonderwall by Oasis
#9 - Supermassive Black Hole by Muse
#10 - Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol
The ‘net is the last bastion of the Rock fan. There’s not an R&B track to be found on the chart. Of course, Last.fm charts aren’t indicative of the population at large (rather a bunch of web-savvy music fans).
The latest Interpol album, Our Love to Admire, was released on July 10 and is on high rotation for
Thinking back Mr. Wilde’s insights on popularity, whatever is popular is not wrong. Pop or not, I think whatever people are genuinely enjoying is right whether it’s Rihanna or Interpol.
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World of Warcraft has hit yet another milestone - this time clocking up a massive nine million subscribed players worldwide.
Crystal B. says these boys from Cape Breton rock
Congratulations to my pal Elana on her adorable baby daughter.
Leona Hobbs: URGENT Need a power cord for the Plat box. Calling Adam!! (via Twitter / Leona Hobbs)
Leona Hobbs: Update from HostingCon: booth is up; waiting on ‘puters and furniture vendors. (via Twitter / Leona Hobbs)
Newspapers, struggling to find their place in the Web world, are plunging into hyperlocal, but the results so far are journalistic Velveeta. The missing flavor â the tang â will not be delivered by the creators of Scripps’ YourHub, Tribune’s TribLocal
There’s a simple reason people go to a search engine to find something first: the search engines often work faster than the search on a media property’s page. <snip. Part of this is because people like centralized locations to start their foray into URL-l
These adorable baby lion pictures inspired me to upload a short video of elephants I took at the Zurich Zoo in 2005 to YouTube.
Aww… Cute Overload.
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