best laid plans
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2011 state of online music
Next Big Sound provides a centralized place to monitor all the behavior and activity happening for artists both online and off.
Tyrannosaur
Olivia Colman plays Carol Thatcher in The Iron Lady which has had more buzz at the big festivals than the vastly superior film Tyrannosaur.
jobs originally objected to third party apps
Walter Isaacson’s recent biography of Steve Jobs reveals that in 2007 – upon the release of the first iPhone – Steve Jobs was dead against allowing third parties to develop Apps for the iOS device.
Since then, Apple’s App Store has now passed the 18 billion downloads mark, with a relatively mere $3 billion having been paid in royalties to the developers. Everyone on Jobs’ board apart from Jobs himself saw this opportunity before the first iPhone was released. However, an executive decision made by Jobs meant that the first iPhone (2007) only had Apps developed by Apple.
iVoted – State of Oregon Use iPads to Help the Elderly Vote
The state of Oregon has given the opportunity for immobile residents to vote from the comfort of their own home via the iPad.
Bluegrass Labels report positive sales in 2011 along with most of the Music Business
Music sales figures for 2011 gave the record industry its first reason to smile in several years – even if only Mona Lisa-style. After many years of steady declines, total sales of recorded music were up last year, a trend that holds for bluegrass as well as total industry-wide performance.
Justin Timberlake Announces MySpace TV
MySpace got CES off to an early start Monday night by using its trump card – co-owner Justin Timberlake – to announce the company’s new initiative, MySpace TV.
Best Laid Plans
Director David Blair is currently putting the finishing touches on Best Laid Plans. The tough-as-tungsten Brit thriller will be out in cinemas on February 3, and on DVD and Blu-ray on February 20. See Trailer…
Online Versus Face Time
“The film industry has been slow in adopting websites to help its business”, writes Mike Goodridge of Screen Daily. He reports on the trend online-only start-up companies that avoid the cost of attending film festivals such as Cannes by only selling films online.
