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Facebook for iPhone 3.0 is coming very soon. I can’t predict an exact date when I will submit to Apple, but I can say that I am about 98% done. So what’s new in this update?
1. The “new” News Feed
2. Like
3. Events (including the ability to RSVP)
4. Notes
5. Pages
6. Create new photo albums
7. Upload photos to any album
8. Zoom into photos
9. Easier photo tagging
10. Profile Pictures albums
11. A new home screen for easy access to all your stuff, search, and notifications
12. Add your favorite profiles and pages to the home screen
13. Better Notifications (they link to the comments so you can reply)
14. Quickly call or text people right from the Friends page
15. Messages you are typing will be restored if you quit or are interrupted by a phone call
The one feature everyone is asking for, Push Notifications, is in development but it won’t make it into 3.0. You can expect it in a 3.1 update later this summer.
When I have submitted the app to Apple I will let you all know!
- Joe (Via Facebook notes)
1. There are fewer superstars, and the same musicians show up on every magazine cover.
2. Music mags have less to offer music lovers, and music lovers need them less than ever anyway.
3. Music magazines were an early version of social networking. But now there’s this thing called “social networking” …
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Scenes from Shaq’s press conference in Cleveland today.
Note: the man in the red shirt on the left side of the last photo who appears to be very scared.
Here’s some footage from Clinton Sparks’ flipcam when Jadakiss came up to his house in the burbs to record his verse for “Ciroc Star” off of the Chester French mixtape. Get Right…
Rarely has the world received a gift with the magnitude of artistry, talent, and vision as Michael Jackson. He was a true musical icon whose identifiable voice, innovative dance moves, stunning musical versatility, and sheer star power carried him from childhood to worldwide acclaim. A 13-time GRAMMY recipient, Michael’s career transcends musical and cultural genres and his contributions will always keep him in our hearts and memories. We are deeply saddened by this tragic news and our hearts go out to his family and to music lovers around the globe who mourn this great loss.
The Book Business vs. The Record Business
I came across a Big Money article entitled The Kindle Revolution that described the book business. The parallels with the record business were immediately obvious:
The book business is a distribution business, pure and simple. It’s about getting the words and ideas of a writer into the hands of a reader. In the old days, publishers had to get the books piled in the bookstore so readers would notice them when they came in to buy. They also needed to get them reviewed because that’s where book buyers learned about books. Book publishers made nice profits by proving their mastery of everything from getting the cheapest printing and most efficient trucking to having clout with bookstores and reviewers.
The record business is a distribution business, pure and simple. It’s about printing plastic discs, loading them on trucks, delivering them to stores and stocking them on shelves. In the old days, record labels paid for posters, end caps and fancy displays to make their records stand out from the competition. Labels were able to reap large profits and support their massive overhead by dominating the production, distribution and media channels.Few readers buy books based upon reviews anymore. Farrar Straus and Giroux’s editor in chief, Eric Chinski said, “Reviews don’t have the same impact that they used to. The one thing that really horrifies me and that seems to have happened within the last few years is that you can get a first novel on the cover of the New York Times Book Review, a long review in The New Yorker, a big profile somewhere, and it still doesn’t translate into sales.”
Few listeners buy music based upon reviews anymore. The traditional authorities, Rolling Stone reviews, radio play, MTV picks and the like don’t carry nearly the same punch as they used to.What does translate into sales? A direct connection to the reader. That comes from publicity or word of mouth. What publishers pay for when they pursue the high-risk strategy is access to publicity—fame in one of its many forms or something sensational—or their sense that a book will tap into a kind of social currency. That’s everything from the next hot idea to the next book club must-read.
The important thing here is to recognize that the purchasing decision for a book doesn’t take place in the bookstore anymore. You don’t need to hold the book, read the flap copy, or weigh the sincerity of the jacket blurbs anymore.
People don’t trust reviews anymore and aren’t browsing the shelves at Tower Records every Tuesday when the new albums are released. The purchase decision is no longer made at the record sales counter and able to be swayed by physical promos and posters hung by label reps. Recommendations by friends, social music discovery engines and blog posts are now a powerful driver of sales. Consumers have also shown that they want to hear music rather than making a “blind” purchase as used to be the norm. More and more of this sampling is moving online and unlike books, music engagement can be easily tracked by measuring views, plays, friends, comments and mentions across the web properties where people are already interacting with their favorite artists. Music has always been at the forefront of societal and cultural changes. The direct connection from artist to fan is of the future of the music business and the rest of entertainment industry at large.
New York at night. See 60 more beautiful night shots of cities aroubd the world here.
Vibe magazine hit the deadpool today, but if Quincy Jones has his way, the music magazine he founded nearly two decades ago will thrive again—albeit online-only. Jones sold Vibe to Wicks Group in 2006; he told EbonyJet.com that he’d already begun the process of trying to buy it back. The caveat is that print is no longer an option: “Print and all that stuff is over, we gotta remember that,” Jones said. “The Chicago Tribune, The Seattle Post Intelligencer. The Miami Herald. They’re over the same way as the record business. We have got to get into this century.” Vibe CEO Steve Aaron said that the website was profitable. (Via Paid Content)
eMusic put together a little list of some of the most overlooked albums that have been released so far in 2009. We are at the halfway point of the year. So, if you need some new music, check the list here.
