TV Buzz Comparing the top 10 legally downloaded shows from iTunes and the top 10 torrented television shows.
Business Buzz Fast Company raves, “It’s actual, hilarious, penetrating, ejaculating porn that you shouldn’t watch at work.”
Music Buzz Go to your iTunes (or Last.fm, or whatever equivalent music service you use) and sort by play count. Then post a video of the song you've played the most in the comments. Are you proud or embarrassed?
http://slacktory.com/2011/09/the-itunes-click-through-agr...
A plain-English translation of the iTunes clickthrough agreement, including that part about running a nuclear power plant on iTunes (seriously).
According to this study, not a whole lot.
http://mashable.com/2010/11/24/the-beatles-2000000/
The numbers are in. According to Billboard, the Beatles sold more than 450,000 albums and more than 2 million individual songs since the entire catalog was made available on Apple’s online music store iTunes one week ago. Now that's impressive!
This is one Apple announcement that's sure to never let you down. Now we never have to say goodbye.
The big iTunes announcement “you'll never forget” appears to be that iTunes is going to start selling music from The Beatles. Use this chart to figure out if you should care.
Drew (of Toothpaste for Dinner fame) made a handy chart of one aspect of what happens when you cut out record labels from a release.
Tech Buzz Don't like the new iTunes Icon? It's an easy switch. If only it were so easy to fix Ping! Click here for a bunch of other designs to choose from.
Google has recently announced that they will be releasing a new music downloading service called, “Google Music” by this Christmas. This new downloading service would be a direct competitor to iTunes and will deeply connect to the Android mobile operating system. Google is currently in talks with labels about launching such a service.
http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends?q=itunes+10&da...
iTunes 10 was released today with a built in social network called Ping (which BuzzFeed has tested and it sucks). iTunes is shiny as ever though.
Music Buzz I Write Like is a website that analyzes any text and matches it to a prominent writer. It's pretty interesting to mess around with. Here are the current iTunes Top 10 and the writers that they are most akin to.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/04/googles-itunes-competito...
Google's iTunes Competitor Will Likely Be Called Google Music. Now who saw that one coming?
http://mashable.com/2010/06/03/grooveshark-lala-promotion/
On-demand music service Grooveshark has a nice promotion going on for former users of the now shut down Lala site: one free month of premium VIP service. Cloud storage and streaming service Lala was shut down at the end of May after being acquired by Apple, prompting some to surmise that the latter company intends to bring an online music storage component to iTunes.
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlb...
iTunes is letting users download a movement from John Cage's famous 4'33” for free this week. Unfortunately, people aren't too impressed. My favorite so far is: “just wonderin, is this guy 4 feet 33inches tall???”
http://tv.popcrunch.com/watch-tv-online/
A comprehensive collection detailing where to go to watch TV shows on teh webz. Gabe Kaplan on demand, you say? The future is now!
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/12/08/rumor_apple...
Rumor has it Apple is on the verge of an end-of-year push that would start by finally offering unprotected iTunes Store music from all major labels and would continue with a special post-holiday campaign giving away music and videos to Europeans. It is not at all clear that this rumor has any validity, but still: exciting!