How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts
here's what's going on Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : ‘Ghosts’ of Spotify — Liz Pelly, Harpers: … Reading this article made me feel quite sad. Bluesky: @nanobii.com : the spotify “fake artist” issue appar...
Apple acquires Sweden-based BIS Records, founded in 1973, and plans to fold the classical music label into Apple Music Classical and Apple's A&R label Platoon
A few days ago BIS Records turned 50 years old and I am immensely proud … Hartley Charlton / MacRumors : Apple to Acquire Major Classical Music Label BIS Records Billboard : Apple Buys Swedish Classic...
Apple unveils a standalone classical music iPhone app with 5M+ tracks and more, available for pre-order now to Apple Music subscribers and launching on March 28
here's what it can do Rida Imran / iThinkDifferent : How to auto-download the Apple Music Classical app, ahead of launch on March 28 Shubham Verma / Techlusive : Apple Music Classical to launch on Mar...
A look at Parler, a social network with little moderation, which is backed by Robert and Rebekah Mercer and saw its user base double to 10M in under a week
The libertarian-minded platform aims to challenge tech giants through a focus on free speech; surge in users since the election
How Google Reader and RSS beat Twitter in some cases
Scoble and myself had another argument a few days ago about reading RSS feeds. Robert argues that no-one should read any feeds anymore outside of Twitter and Facebook, the rest is useless (right?) wh...
I'm Sorry Robert, But It's Time For A Friendfeed Intervention
I'm a big champion of services like Twitter and the newer Friendfeed (can you believe Friendfeed is less than a year old?). But there's a difference between liking a service and having an addiction.
Why Kyte.tv will kill Qik and Flixwagon in cell phone video space
The post below is written by Robert Scoble, a top blogger and the founder FastCompanyTV. — Robert has been one of the earliest adopters of cell phone video, which offers the ability to stream live t...
When Social Just Means Another Way To Hype Yourself
Ever since becoming active on Twitter and FriendFeed I have noticed something that really makes me wonder if in the long run what Robert Cringely wrote the other day might in part be true. In his pos...
The Web Disruptors at the Forbes Internet Forum in Cancun
Violet Blue and Robert Scoble are currently in Cancun, Mexico representing the blogosphere at the Forbes Internet Leadership Forum. Earlier today, Violet and Robert, along with Rich Jenkins (MSN Mone...
Scoble and John Edwards in New Hampshire
Robert Scoble was with presidential candidate John Edwards in Portsmouth, New Hampshire today. Robert is shooting lots of video for PodTech, his employer who is paying his expenses. — The Edwards c...