50 cent: How much can you fit on a MySpace page?

I gottta laugh each time I visit ‘fiddy’s MySpace page - it appears to be aiming for the record number of widgits and plug-ins on one page. First, you have to scroll down further than most people’s entire MySpace page just to get past the flash intro! Then seemingly every widget ever made is some [...]

How To Sell Music From Your Website

Artistes such as Tempo Shark and Valanti and are selling their music via widgets supplied by companies like Snocap and 7Digital. If an artiste has a deal with a company such as The Orchard, they simply have to opt in to use the Snocap player and are provided with code to embed on their website. [...]

Snapvine: Shout Outs Online

Snapvine is a two way communication tool between artistes and fans. A simple interface allows an artiste to leave a short voice intro for their fans. On the other side, fans can phone a number provided on the widget and leave a voice mail, or ‘Shout Out’, which can be heard by everyone. For fans [...]

Personalised Fan Site With Netvibes.com

Netvibes offers labels and artistes an extraordinarily powerful marketing tool since it provides a way for fans to create their personalised artiste site. Netvibes is an incredible leap forward in Web 2.0 technology that provides its users with an infinitely flexible personalised home page. By offering fans new modules, say news updates or a photo [...]

Good Flash Player Widget

If you’re looking for a good Flash player on your website, this is great. It’s used by Hype Machine, in addition to a host of others. You need to have a little programming knowledge, but if you do this is a very intuitive player with a road tested interface.

Where To Get Free File Hosting

You may be an artiste who has a MySpace profile and have uploaded your music, but how do you get it featured by blogs, or send an MP3 to someone as a link rather than an attachment? Well, try a free ‘file host’. These sites provide you with a free area to put your files, [...]

How To Create A Radio Station With Last.fm

Last.fm provides simple code to embed a radio player into a web page which plays a station based upon your selected artiste. The player below is based upon Hannah, an Estonian artiste promoted by Million. Since the playlist is created dynamically based upon Last.fm’s users, it’s a nice embed for fans of the music. Moreover, [...]