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Online Music Trends — Getting Out There!

The Internet has, the past decade, revolutionized the music industry, in the form of access, exposure, and distribution of music for bands across the world.  Everything from peer-to-peer pirating, YouTube vids, iTunes, Facebook, and MySpace Music have helped to make bands find fans, gigs, and label deals. Following this lead, music-themed social networking site The Banded launched recently with a new twist on encouraging hardcore user interaction...     (more…)
December 3, 2009
DevelopmentMarketing

Yes, But is it Free?

Some companies get scared of the word "free."  Free does not equate profit and "in the black." Free, however, is a necessary selling tool to grab the attention of consumers. Sure, there will be those who take whatever is free and run away with big smiles on their faces; that's inevitable. But there will also be a significant amount of consumers who will take what is free and buy more products from the company or website--such as the buy two…
December 1, 2009
DevelopmentMarketing

How Much Daily Time Are People Spending Online?

Analysts and researchers are constantly studying how and why we all spend our time online, and how many hours of days—our lives, really—are spent surfing the net, viewing and reading content, buying, and interacting. It’s a tremendous amount of needed information when you think about it—either socially, commercially, ethnographically, and politically, such studies are used and are useful to various organizations, brands, and entities, and where there is a need, there will be those enterprising companies that will provide for…
November 30, 2009
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Asteroids! A Blast from the Past!

Feeling nostalic and analogue, the days a large arcade games, Texas Instruments and 3x5 floppy disks with 20 kb? Sure, we can all use some fun and games this season, which is why Infogrames Entertainment’s old school v-game label Atari -- remember Atari, kids? -- is relaunching Atari.com as a free arcade portal. That's right -- log on and play, once again,  “Asteroids,” “Battlezone,” “Lunar Lander” or “Yars Revenge” to your heart’s content while the company markets geek-tested merchandise and more…
November 25, 2009
DesignDevelopment

What a difference a BG makes

ISM: a community project is a non-profit "inspiring innovative interaction and conversation both online and offline," which is why Ninthlink is happy to have been working with them for a few years now. Ever since Craig's initial designs manifested themselves, there was the idea floating around of how rad it would be to get artists to contribute backgrounds for the ISMcommunity.org site. Now that we finally had a few minutes to spare leading up to this holiday weekend, I was…
November 25, 2009