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Rock Band Video Game Opens Up Music Submissions
Posted by Laura Glendinning in Music, Technology on January 24, 2010
LOS ANGELES (YBH.ME) – Platforming off XBox 360, Playstations and even Wii, Rock Band, the mega-successful video game, has sold 4 million units and generated more than $600 million in revenue. When released in 2007, Harmonix CEO and Rock Band co-creator Alex Rigopulos said the game “takes the core premise of Guitar Hero and expands it tenfold. It lets you create a complete collaborative band.”
Rock Band: Soon Featuring Undiscovered Music like The Sugarmen
Harmonix, owned by MTV, was able to use long-standing label relationships to make classic rock songs of every era available to players. Now the game-makers are adding a whole new type of music for download: yours. Read the rest of this entry »
Quick Hit: MySpace Users May Be Able to Share Content Using Facebook
Posted by Laura Glendinning in News and Analysis, Technology on October 26, 2009
LOS ANGELES (YBH.ME) – Current MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta, once a Facebook exec, announced today that MySpace users may soon be able to share content via Facebook Connect, if talks between the companies go well. With Facebook claiming 300 million users and MySpace’s growth flat, the move makes sense, say tech watchers. Read the rest of this entry »
OPINION: Twitter To Go The Way Of MySpace?
Posted by John Romano in Opinion, Technology on October 10, 2009
Back in the old days before The Sugarmen I was a solo singer-songwriter dude doing open mics at small L.A. clubs and promoting my music on MySpace.
Twitter and spam, who will win?
Cleo Antonelli, an L.A. music biz stalwart, turned me on to MySpace early. For a while the site was all that first generation social media could be: connecting with friends and fans while finding new fans almost daily. However, MySpace turned into a predatory landscape of spam and scams pretty fast.
Tonight I started the Yes, But, However Twitter feed. Twenty minutes after launching the feed, YBH had five followers. Three girls who “just broke up with their boyfriends” and two coupon code websites. Uh oh, I thought and continue to think. Shades of MySpace. Read the rest of this entry »
Facebook Poll Asking If President Should “Be Killed” Attracts Secret Service
Posted by Laura Glendinning in News and Analysis, Technology on September 30, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO (YBH.ME) – Overnight Sunday, Facebook users were able to participate in a user-generated poll asking “should Obama be killed?” Possible answers were “yes,” “maybe,” “no,” and “if he cuts my health care.”
Reports surfaced early Monday suggesting the poll was removed from Facebook at Secret Service’s request. According to a posting by someone claiming to be the application’s developer, Facebook didn’t just have the offending poll removed, but rather disabled the polling application entirely. Read the rest of this entry »
Online Security Firm: Facebook Accounts Can Be Hacked for $100
Posted by John Romano in News and Analysis, Technology on September 19, 2009
SEATTLE, WA (YBH.ME) – Online security firm PandaLabs has discovered a website that claims it will hack any Facebook account for the paltry sum of $100.
PandaLabs wisely didn’t disclose the web address publicly. According to PandaLabs Technical Director Luis Corrons “The web page is very well designed. It is easy to contract the service and become either the victim of an online fraud, or a cyber-criminal and accomplice in identity theft. Once an intruder hacks into a Facebook account, all personal data published on the site can be stolen.”
Facebook's popularity leads to challenges.
Outside of identity theft, a stolen Facebook account could also be used to defame a user or spread malware. Corrons continues, “Similarly, those accounts can also be used to send malware, spam or other threats to the victim’s contacts. In the case of celebrities or other well-known entities, they can be used to defame the account holder, spread information in their name, etc. In any event, this is criminal activity.” Read the rest of this entry »