Archive for August, 2010
August 31st, 2010 | 
Author: Punchmode was based by one of Hip Hop’smost underrated artist in the rap game . Valet has been making music for  a decade and hasn’t got  the attention  he earned . With hits like “Suzuki Samurai,“ “I Don’t Need No Band” and “Jus U And Me“ it makes me wonder why Valet hasn’t got  his reward in in the rap industry . The industry is wrong if they assume that a major deal is everything. Indie emcee’s are making more revenue than signed emcee’s . This is because independent M.C’s own all they’re royalties . They don’t answer to no one but themselves. If you could establish a fan base of 50,000,what do you need a deal for? You could distribute your Cd’s for three dollars and still make a cool net income, not to mention the digital sells. Who needs a deal if they are making $100,000 dollars independently every album. Don’t cast off your money on websites saying they can get you a deal within thirty days and blah,blah,blah . Instead, use that currency to advertise your music calling. Once you establish enough attention , you don’t have to look for them they will look for you. I think this is a understandable mistake for up and coming artist , these artist are searching for labels . Let the labels look for you.
Indie music has it’s weaknesses just like major labels . The good thing about indie music is most of the time you will get your money’s worth. i don’t mean the music you buy off the street in a jewel case with marker writing on it. I mean professionally wrapped cd’s . If you were to buy a cd for ten dollars and it’s not professionally wrapped, then slap yourself, you have just been robbed. You shouldn’t pay no more than $5 dollars for unprofessional cd’s and that’s if your having a good day . But , if the cd looks like it’s worth $10 dollars then by all means buy it . Most likely the M.C. has put some time into his music . The problem with Major Labels is 3 good songs and the rest garbage. I’m tired of spending $12 -$15 dollars on Cd’s that aren’t worth ten cent. The only good song on the album, is the single they put out. If you are a signed artist, there should be three bad songs out of the 15, not vice versa. You get good quality audio frequency but, bad quality music, it’s time for a change. Check out the links below for another artist with skills on the MIC.
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Apptio, a Bellevue, Washington-based provider of SaaS-delivered Technology Business Management solutions this morning announced that it has closed a $16.5 million Series C round – the company has now raised up to $37.5 million in venture capital.
The financing round, which the company says was oversubscribed, was led by Shasta Ventures, with participation from all current investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners and Madrona Venture Group.
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Andy Chu / Search Blog:
Bing for Mobile comes to your Verizon Android — Today we are happy to announce the first official Bing for Mobile Android App available to Verizon customers. You can now download the free Bing App from your Verizon Wireless Android phones’ Marketplace. — The app homepage features …
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Denver, Colorado based MapMyFitness, Inc has just announced raising $5 Million in a Series A round of financing lead by Austin Ventures. The health-related social network and training application company operates a network of sites including MapMyFitness.com, MapMyRide.com, MapMyRun.com, MapMyTri.com, MapMyWalk.com, MapMyHike.com, and MapMyMountain.com.
The MapMyFitness community gives their over two million members the ability to record and store their various running, cycling, walking and hiking routes as well as access to a database of international routes, fitness calculators, and events listings.
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AP – Authorities say a California man jealous over a message on his girlfriend's Facebook page tortured and imprisoned her for four days while their children were in the house. More information: click here
Email overload has finally met its match. Tomorrow, Gmail is rolling out a new feature called Priority Inbox that is going to be a Godsend for those of you who dread opening your email. In short, Google has built a system that figures out which of your messages are important, and presents them at the top of the screen so you don’t miss them. The rest of your messages are still there, but you don’t have to dig through dozens of newsletters and confirmations to find the diamonds in rough.
The beauty of the system lies in its simplicity — it’s nearly as easy as Gmail’s one click spam filter. There’s almost no setup: once it’s activated on your account, you’ll see a prompt asking you if you want to enable Priority Inbox. You can choose from a few options (the order of your various inboxes and if there are any contacts you’d like to always mark ‘Important’) but don’t have to setup any rules or ‘teach’ Gmail what you want it to mark important. It just works, at least most of the time.
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Jennifer Ruffner / MySpace:
MySpace Introduces Sync with Facebook — By Jennifer Ruffner, Director of Product, Stream — Today, we’re introducing Sync with Facebook, which allows MySpace users, musicians, and celebrities around the world to sync their status updates with their Facebook profile or Page …
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Boy Genius Report:
Samsung Galaxy Tab is Verizon Wireless’ tablet — Guess what we have here, folks? Confirmation that the very sexy and very unannounced Samsung tablet device for Verizon Wireless is actually Samsung’s Galaxy Tab tablet. It is currently sitting pretty in Verizon’s internal systems, and a source of ours has sent in proof.
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Ben Patterson – Feel the need to "check in" on Foursquare or Facebook every time you saunter into a restaurant, browse the goods at your neighborhood grocery store, or cram into a rock concert? Well, if you, you’re still in the minority — and you’re also probably a guy below 40 — according to the latest research. More information: click here