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After months of rumours — and years of talking about it — MySpace is launching a comprehensive music service involving three of the four major record labels (for some reason that remains unknown, EMI wasn’t part of the announcement, although some say it will soon join the venture). According to PaidContent’s description of the conference [...]

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Qtrax: How not to launch a product

by Mathew on January 28, 2008 · View Comments

This one could go down as one of the most bungled launches in Web 2.0 history — and that’s saying a lot. Qtrax, the legal ad-supported p2p network that has been in the works for more than four years now, came out on Sunday with much fanfare at the Midem music industry conference in Cannes, [...]

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Gmail colours: Is this really news?

by Mathew on December 4, 2007 · View Comments

I know that pretty much anything Google does is worthy of comment — and not just a little comment, but a ton of comment — but isn’t all the hubbub about coloured Gmail tags just a little over the top? I mean, I’m a big fan of Google and of Gmail, but still. Adding coloured [...]

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According to a story in Thursday’s New York Times (I love the fact that we can read NYT stories the night before the paper comes out), the major music labels that signed deals with YouTube to allow users to mashup music and videos got ownership stakes in the company as part of those deals, as [...]

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