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Music Programming Value Online Part II
There are plenty of music on-demand and curated radio streams out there, and the options continue growing. This is part II of multichannel providers as a music programming value proposition. Listen to Music Choice, AUPEO! and Sky.FM as options for multichannel streams, and Jazz Radio along with Hearts of Space for genre-specific audiences.
Music providers = Advertising and affiliate marketing opportunities
Communities by Hobby Make Ideal Niche Networks
Hobbies are a great way to become better rounded individuals and meet new people with interests alike. Communities by hobby make the ideal niche networks to find activities and the social web is a great place to connect to advice and know-how. Here is a selection of listening posts from impassioned hobbyists: REMcloud, Ravelry, Line-for-heaven, Dogster and Catster.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
Personalized Homepage Providers to substitute iGoogle
Google delivered in its promise to pull the plug off its customizable home page. This has left an opportunity to explore alternatives among a growing number of personalized homepage providers to replace iGoogle.
iGoogle Nostalgia? Continue reading!
Multichannel Music Radio Part I
In a market saturated with music choices, variety is the spice of life. On-demand streaming, algorithm-based, satellite and radio portals offer benefits, but in the music mishmash of the web, well programmed multichannel music radio stations are a valuable option when one does not have time to make a choice. Listen to AccuRadio, HotMix Radio and Batanga Radio and think of niche-audience touch points for brands.
Think $ and Listen Beyond The Obvious Channels
Niche Networks for Families: Passionate Consumers
Parenting may be traditional or progressive but there are two things all good parents have in common: love for their children and an open mind to consider how other parents are raising their own. The continuation of the Niche Network Series explores the basic features of three niche networks for families: Cafe Mom, Disney Family and Patch. These are listening posts for an established audience that forms a huge consumer market.
Family is everything!
Search Tools To Monitor Brands And Much More
Three Search Tools To Increase Efficiency
Communications professionals use search tools beyond Google, Bing and Yahoo to:
- monitor brands owned by employers or competitors or
- produce results for academic research or
- perform marketing research for upcoming product lines
These free search tools are commodities for digital life: Netvibes, Wolfram Alpha and DEVONagent Lite.
Playing in Small Screens Near You: Skeumorph and The Parallax Effect
iOS6 nostalgic skeumorphism
iOS7 flatter than Texas
Owners of iPhone and iPad have been chatty in Apple-themed forums since iOS7 dropped. A source of complains about motion sickness, nausea, vertigo seemingly caused by the new parallax and zoom features in iOS7.
This week motion on-screen takes center stage. Let the carnival begin. Continue reading
Doing Good through Social Media
Social behavior predictions for latest gadgets and gizmos
Signs of the digital divide are bound to continue showing in patterns of digital consumption. Here are three of many ways in which consumers choices will show the social split among “haves and have nots” for the rest of the year: iPhone 5s or 5c, Google Wallet and the Samsung Galaxy Gear.
You mean you don’t have the i-toothpick yet?
Apple? Windows? No time to rest on your digital laurels, the world operates in more than one way.
It is time to start thinking about a world of proprietary software and niche operative systems …desktop, mobile and otherwise. Shake out your digital comfort zone beyond internships or industries.
Read if:
- your entire computing know-how or will-to-learn is limited to Apple, Windows or Linux, or
- you have never heard of Ubuntu and you are about to graduate or change jobs
Image of main mobile Operative Systems in the world owned by Apple, Microsoft, Blackberry and Google
The New TV Model as an Opportunity for Media Professionals
The big change that traditional television and cable are experimenting equals opportunity for you.
Netflix’s 14 Emmy nominations, and NBC.com with 3 for original programming (separate from NBC network) –how these among other cultural changes affect you as a young professional involved in media, marketing, technology, law, etc.
IPTV Internet Protocol Television applications