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Myspace Music Collaborates With ReverbNation, Offers New Suite Of Marketing Tools For Artists

Too little, too late? Wondering what the benefits are for Reverbnation.

Myspace Music has collaborated with ReverbNation to integrate their FanReach product into the Myspace platform. It will be included in a suite of tools that Myspace is introducing to its artist community.

Beginning this month, all artists on Myspace will receive Fan Reach.

This tool enables artists to collect and import email contacts; send targeted communications; view stats for each email sent; and manage their fan relationships from within their Myspace profile. This new suite of tools will also include an enhanced stats and tracking product and shareable song embeds.

Read more at www.hypebot.com

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Yahoo, Sell Flickr – or set it free! – (by @baekdal)

God, I hope they listen!

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This was why MySpace failed. Social channels don’t belong in broadcast focused media companies. Flickr is a social channel, it is not “media”.

Yahoo needs to sell Flickr, or set it free. Flickr could still be great, but their window of opportunity is quickly disappearing. Don’t let it wither away. It is much too valuable for that.

Read more at feed.baekdal.com

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The Domino Project: Book publishing done better

The logical next step for Seth Godin, but presumably for a lot more people as well.

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To reinvent the way books are created when the middleman is made less important.

To reinvent the way books are purchased when the tribe is known and embraced.

To reinvent the way books are read when the alternatives are so much easier to find.

To find and leverage great ideas and great authors, bringing them to readers who need them.

Our goal is to offer ideas that people need and want to spread, to enjoy and to hold and to own, and to change conversations.

The Domino Project is named for the domino effect—ideas can quickly spread, moving through a previously static set up. Our mission isn’t to become a promotional machine, focused on interrupting large numbers of people or having significant promotional chops through traditional media. Instead, we’re grabbing the opportunity to choose and deliver manifestos that are optimized for the tribe, for the small group that wants to grab them, inhale them and spread them. The good ones will spread, first from person to person, then from one circle to another, and eventually into large groups.

Read more at sethgodin.typepad.com

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