BPI Letter Shows How Much Trouble The Music Industry Is In…

This open letter from Geoff Taylor demonstrates the almost irreversible problem faced by the Record Industry.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7452621.stm
Geoff Taylor is Chairman of the BPI, who if you didn’t know, are the trade body who represent the Major record labels (officially, they’re meant to represent all labels but that’s only a technicality). His argument against Bill Thompson is [...]

Million Help Launch The New Jamiroquai.com

Jamiroquai.com has just launched and Million played a leading role in the design, content and management.
The new Jamiroquai.com site has received a lot of press, thanks to it’s focus on Social Networking. Million designed the site’s structure and architecture, whilst the design of the look and feel was handled by our good friends at Modera.net.
Million [...]

Analysis: The Pros of Online Music Advertising

Opportunities In Online Advertising
It’s clear that advertising is going to underpin most new websites, ideas, social networks and music blogs. The recent news that Google has overtaken ITV as the highest earning ad funded publisher marked a watershed in the evolution of the Internet.
And yet, the dark arts of online advertising, particularly for music, are [...]

Deezer.com Launch Free Music Service

Deezer.com are the reincarnation of BlogMuzik, who were recently shut down by the French copyright society (where they’re based). They’re now claiming to be the first licensed free on-demand music service with no restrictions and unlimited. I won’t pass comment since it may be true and who am I to cast doubt? But I’m suprised [...]

Virtual Star - An Example Of A Million/Grafik MySpace Re-skin

Million recently partnered with Grafik Media to provide a MySpace re-skin for Virtual Star. The company behind it provide 3D screens in nightclubs and are inviting clubbers to audition for the role of a virtual host. They approached us to build a MySpace site - which didn’t look like a MySpace site - and provide [...]

Elbo.ws Undergoes Revamp

Elbo.ws, one of our favourite music blog aggregators (is that the right category?) has undergone a dramatic re-skin. It now features more Top Tens for artists, tracks and blogs, making it more serious competition for Hype Machine, the grandaddy of “MBA’s”.  The display is far cleaner and it provides some great analyse tools to see [...]

Buzznet : Future of Social Networking

I came across Buzznet recently, a hybrid magazine/blog/trend/social network site. At it’s core, there is a team of writers who look out for new ‘Buzzes’, like fashions, upcoming artistes, video, film etc and provide entertaining content. But the site also incorporates a powerful social network which allows all the usual things then adds a lot [...]