Community

Below are links to a number of useful social networking and media websites for bands and artists looking to expand their digital presence:

Social Media

http://www.ilike.com/

iLike is the Web's leading social music discovery service and the dominant music application on the Facebook®, Orkut, hi5 and Bebo platforms.

http://www.facebook.com

Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected.

http://www.bebo.com/

Bebo is the next generation social networking service where members can stay in touch with their College friends, connect with friends, share photos, discover new interests and just hang out.

http://www.myspace.com/

Create a community on MySpace and you can share photos, journals and interests with your growing network of mutual friends!

http://www.last.fm/

Every track you play will tell your Last.fm profile something about what you like. It can connect you to other people who like what you like - and recommend songs from their music collections and yours too.

http://www.flock.com/

Flock pulls all of your favourite people, places and content together in a convenient view and delivers a more personal experience of the web, where its users are more easily connected to what's important to them.

http://www.ning.com/

A platform for building your own social network. With just a few clicks you can have your own personalized network for friends and fans alike.

http://www.kickapps.com/

The KickApps puts social media and online video functionality directly into the hands of every web publisher who aspires to be a media mogul and turns every web designer and developer into a social media rockstar.

http://www.liveworld.com/

Liveworld is the go-to social media marketing agency and technology provider for everything Fortune 1000 companies need to leverage the power of social networking to build their brands and their business.

http://www.stumbleupon.com

This is a great site and browser plugin that matches your interests with the browsing habits of thousands of users. The result: relatively endless hours of stumbling across the web.

Music News

http://www.mi2n.com/

Music Industry News Network

http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/

Digital Music News is the news and information authority for music industry and technology executives.

http://www.recordoftheday.com/www/

Record of the Day is the music industry's daily digest providing a raft of original and aggregagted news from all UK and international media outlets, encompassing press and online.

http://www.musically.com/cgi-bin/content.cgi?page=index

Music Ally is the leading digital music information and strategy company.

http://www.musicweek.com/

In print & online - The business of music.

Technology

http://www.wired.com/

Online periodical which reports on how technology affects culture, the economy, and politics.

http://www.techcrunch.com/

TechCrunch is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies.


http://www.mobilecrunch.com/

Mobile technology blog with recent news and information.

http://www.fastcompany.com/

Where ideas and people meet.

http://www.ted.com/

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design.It started out as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.


http://www.laptoprockers.eu/

Laptoprockers reports hot gossip and rumors from electronic boogie land.

http://www.engadget.com/

Engadget is a multilingual technology weblog and podcast about consumer electronics.

Blogs
http://hypem.com/

http://theappleblog.com/
http://www.fluxblog.org/
http://stereogum.com/
http://gigaom.com/
http://www.netblogsrocknroll.com/
http://www.drownedinsound.com/
http://www.hypebot.com/
Online Radio
http://www.kcrw.com/?now=music&sched=music
http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/
http://davidbyrne.com/radio/
http://woxy.lala.com/
Fun Stuff

http://www.murketing.com/

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