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eMusic Adds Web Content to Store, Expands Social Media Sharing

New York - Digital music service eMusic on Tuesday began introducing several new features that will pull relevant content from around the Web into its site, while allowing users to share eMusic content across social networks, bookmarking sites and blogs. Customers will now see content from YouTube, Flickr and Wikipedia on relevant album pages on the eMusic site, and will also be able to bookmark album pages and send them to 18 social media sites, including Facebook and Digg.

Is Today's Web Still 'the Web'?

snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister raises questions regarding the transforming nature of the Web now that Tim Berners-Lee's early vision has been supplanted by today's much more complex model. AJAX, Google Web Toolkit, Flash and Silverlight all have McAllister asking, 'Is [the Web] still the Web if you can't navigate directly to specific content? Is it still the Web if the content can't be indexed and searched? Is it still the Web if you can only view the application on certain clients or devices? Is it still the Web if you can't view source?' Such questions bely a much bigger question for Web developers, McAllister writes. If today's RIAs no longer resemble the 'Web,' then should we be shoehorning these apps into the Web's infrastructure, or is the problem that the client platforms simply aren't evolving fast enough to meet

eMusic Breaks Down the Walls: Adds Content From YouTube, Flickr and Wikipedia Plus Support for Major Social Networks

NEW YORK, NY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 07/22/08 -- eMusic, the world's largest retailer of independent music and world's second largest digital music service after iTunes, today begins a major transformation of its website and becomes the unequivocal best place for music discovery on the web. A host of new Web 2.0 features will offer eMusic customers more musical context than any other site by pulling in relevant content from around the web and allowing them to share their finds with their friends on major social networks, bookmarking sites and blogs.

eMusic Breaks Down the Walls: Adds Content From YouTube, Flickr and Wikipedia Plus Support for Major Social Networks

NEW YORK, NY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 07/22/08 -- eMusic, the world's largest retailer of independent music and world's second largest digital music service after iTunes, today begins a major transformation of its website and becomes the unequivocal best place for music discovery on the web. A host of new Web 2.0 features will offer eMusic customers more musical context than any other site by pulling in relevant content from around the web and allowing them to share their finds with their friends on major social networks, bookmarking sites and blogs.

Digital Music Provider Aims To Compete In Social Media Market

Digital Music Provider Aims To Compete In Social Media Market - WaTunes.com, a leading digital content provider that helps music artists, record labels, and distributors sell their music on iTunes has announced its plans to enter the social media market with their new site WaTunes 2 scheduled to launch on September 1st of this year. WaTunes 2 is a social media distribution service that provides not only digital services for music artists to sell their music on iTunes, but also welcomes the fans to listen to free music from the WaTunes 2 catalog, rate & comment their favorite albums, meet new friends, and download music on iTunes. “By combining core elements of digital content management, social networking, and Web 2.0, we’re able to create a system that caters to a wide-range of demands from both the artists and fans from around the w

eMusic plans to fight iTunes via social web

eMusic will try to improve its standing against iTunes and fellow web-based store Amazon MP3 soon by adding a social component to the music, the music service's chief David Pakman tells Fortune. Taking advantage of the need to buy music through the web portal, eMusic hopes to draw in buyers by providing deeper and constantly changing artist info through Web 2.0 sites. Musicians will frequently have Wikipedia pages for their biographies as well as relevant Flickr photo albums and YouTube videos.

Myxer Announces Turnkey Mobile Content Syndication Solution - 'Myxer Select'

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla., July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Myxer, the leader in ad-supported mobile content, today announced the new Myxer Select program for mobile handset manufacturers, wireless network operators, and web destinations. The program provides them with the ability to create a customized mobile content store, selecting content from the world's largest assembled collection of mobile content, with over one million items. Myxer Select partners can be up and running with their own mobile content download site (on the web and/or mobile web) in a matter of days. Myxer Select is delivered over the award-winning Myxer Mobile Platform, a robust, scalable and proven mobile content delivery platform that currently delivers over 22 million downloads per month, at a rate of over 8 mobile downloads per second.

Reusable Syndicated Media Portlets: An Example of Simplified Content Presentation

In the early days of the World Wide Web, the battle cry of successful sites was "Content is king!" Web pages needed to be content heavy to gain rankings on the search engines and draw visitors, and the content needed to be updated regularly to bring those visitors back. As the technology evolved and business models changed, functionality and interactivity gained importance in capturing clicks. Portals provide the most manageable framework for organizing and presenting both functionality and content. But, "most manageable" isn't the same is "easily manageable" and content is still a key part of a successful portal. For portal developers and administrators, this means that the content for a portal will grow, both in source and type.

BT: BT Joins Inventor Of The World Wide Web To Promote Study Of Web Science'

BT today became a founding sponsor of the Web Science Research Initiative, an international body established to promote the science and development of the World Wide Web. Established by British Web pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, with co-directors Nigel Shadbolt, Wendy Hall and Danny Weitzner, the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) exists to promote the study of Web Science', a new academic discipline focusing on the analysis, engineering and social impact of the World Wide Web.

Social media isn't about just consuming news or entertainment but sharing â?" and sharing early and often.  But how can you stay always-on and still get your work done? Easy â?" if you have the right tools.

Social media isn't about just consuming news or entertainment but sharing — and sharing early and often. The good news? You can do most of your updating from your mobile device.

eMusic Breaks Down the Walls: Adds Content From YouTube, Flickr and Wikipedia Plus Support for Major Social Networks

eMusic Breaks Down the Walls: Adds Content From YouTube, Flickr and Wikipedia Plus Support for Major Social Networks

The Evolution of Online Media Search Gives Birth to Dizzler; A Free Interactive, Playable Media Search Engine and Aggregator of Multi-Media Content

The Evolution of Online Media Search Gives Birth to Dizzler; A Free Interactive, Playable Media Search Engine and Aggregator of Multi-Media Content

The Sitecore Solution for Web Content Management: Building an Interactive Presence for Profitable Business Relationships

In today's global economy, companies exploit the Web as a medium for building business relationships. They expect to manage their Web-based content in a cost-effective manner. By adopting a Web content management (WCM) application, a firm transforms key aspects of its core operations by enabling its line-of-business staff to maintain Web-based content on their own, without ongoing support from an IT group.

The Sitecore Solution for Web Content Management: Building an Interactive Presence for Profitable Business Relationships

In today's global economy, companies exploit the Web as a medium for building business relationships. They expect to manage their Web-based content in a cost-effective manner. By adopting a Web content management (WCM) application, a firm transforms key aspects of its core operations by enabling its line-of-business staff to maintain Web-based content on their own, without ongoing support from an IT group.

The Sitecore Solution for Web Content Management: Building an Interactive Presence for Profitable Business Relationships

In today's global economy, companies exploit the Web as a medium for building business relationships. They expect to manage their Web-based content in a cost-effective manner. By adopting a Web content management (WCM) application, a firm transforms key aspects of its core operations by enabling its line-of-business staff to maintain Web-based content on their own, without ongoing support from an IT group.

The Sitecore Solution for Web Content Management: Building an Interactive Presence for Profitable Business Relationships

In today's global economy, companies exploit the Web as a medium for building business relationships. They expect to manage their Web-based content in a cost-effective manner. By adopting a Web content management (WCM) application, a firm transforms key aspects of its core operations by enabling its line-of-business staff to maintain Web-based content on their own, without ongoing support from an IT group.

The Sitecore Solution for Web Content Management: Building an Interactive Presence for Profitable Business Relationships

In today's global economy, companies exploit the Web as a medium for building business relationships. They expect to manage their Web-based content in a cost-effective manner. By adopting a Web content management (WCM) application, a firm transforms key aspects of its core operations by enabling its line-of-business staff to maintain Web-based content on their own, without ongoing support from an IT group.

Vringo Application and Rich-Media Content Now Available on the Nokia Download! Web Store

announce an agreement with Nokia to make Vringo’s video ringtone application and rich media content available to Nokia device owners through the Nokia Download! Web store.

Web Filtering Company Bloxx Joins the Internet Watch Foundation to Support Battle Against Illegal Web Content

Bloxx, the web filtering specialist, today announced that it has become a member of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), joining around 80 members from a diverse range of organisations in their battle against illegal online content. With its expert knowledge of up-to-date web filtering technologies, Bloxx hopes to contribute to the remarkable success of the IWF in tackling online illegal content; specifically child sexual abuse images hosted worldwide and criminally obscene and racial hatred content hosted in the UK.

Web Filtering Company Bloxx Joins the Internet Watch Foundation to Support Battle Against Illegal Web Content

Bloxx, the web filtering specialist, today announced that it has become a member of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), joining around 80 members from a diverse range of organisations in their battle against illegal online content. With its expert knowledge of up-to-date web filtering technologies, Bloxx hopes to contribute to the remarkable success of the IWF in tackling online illegal content; specifically child sexual abuse images hosted worldwide and criminally obscene and racial hatred content hosted in the UK.

How to Connect with your Guests through Social Media

PARSIPPANY, NJ -- Web 2.0 is no longer considered an “innovation”. It’s a standard. The internet is now a place for sharing and social interaction. The smartest businesses in the world are using this social interaction to their benefit – through blogs, streaming video, and online communities, where people come together to trade links, ideas, and information 24 hours a day. There’s a good chance that your hotel can benefit from marketing through social media. I’m going to walk you through some of the ways you can do so, and increase your profits along the way.

How to Connect with your Guests through Social Media

PARSIPPANY, NJ -- Web 2.0 is no longer considered an “innovation”. It’s a standard. The internet is now a place for sharing and social interaction. The smartest businesses in the world are using this social interaction to their benefit – through blogs, streaming video, and online communities, where people come together to trade links, ideas, and information 24 hours a day. There’s a good chance that your hotel can benefit from marketing through social media. I’m going to walk you through some of the ways you can do so, and increase your profits along the way.

The Evolution of Online Media Search Gives Birth to Dizzler; A Free Interactive, Playable Media Search Engine and Aggregator of Multi-Media Content

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- (ZealousPR) -- Free music and multi-media mega-search engine and media player giant, Dizzler, announces official website launch and established presence in the playable media search technology arena today at http://www.Dizzler.com.

Adobe Advances Rich Media Search on the Web

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) today announced the company is teaming up with search industry leaders to dramatically improve search results of dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications (RIAs). Adobe is providing optimized Adobe(R) Flash(R) Player technology to Google and Yahoo! to enhance search engine indexing of the Flash file format (SWF) and uncover information that is currently undiscoverable by search engines. This will provide more relevant automatic search rankings of the millions of RIAs and other dynamic content that run in Adobe Flash Player. Moving forward, RIA developers and rich Web content producers won't need to amend existing and future content to make it searchable -- they can now be confident it can be found by users around the globe.

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