Social Networking Is Really A Digital Way Of Life

In our world its common awareness that people are getting busier with their lives day by day, social networking sites are doing a great job of bringing friends, families and even strangers closer. Just imagine the joy of finding your long lost child- hood best friend on a social networking site like orkut.com or classmates.com. Most of us have gone through this experience and we all know that it is something that cannot be described easily in words.

Apart from connecting with old friends, you get to meet a whole lot of new people on these social networking web sites, and contrary to popular belief, not all of them are fakes. There are a wide number of good people like you who are out in the wide wide cyber world who are just as lonely as you are and are looking for like minded friends or companions. And a number of them have also succeeded at it. In fact it is so common that we all know people who met on line and are happily married today.

While almost everyone is aware of the advantages of social networking for individuals, not many businesses are aware of the huge potential that this has in store for them. Joining a social networking site is one of the best and easiest ways of advertising about your business. What is more is that it is absolutely free. And on top of this, most such web sites will give you ample space to talk about your products and services It is a great method of increasing your client base and you are not even restricted by geographical boundaries. So while you can make a community of local businesses in order to garner your local target customer, you can also join communities of other similar businesses in order to be conspicuous to the overseas buyer who is sitting in another country or continent. It is an absolute win-win situation for you, so if haven’t joined a site till now, it is time that you did it right away because the streets is listen and the universal is watching.....

Bug Music Publishing Secures a Major Step In Investment Capital($200,000.000.00)

The signs of positive news and opportunities for songwriters and music producers worldwide.One can't help but think just as the media injects nothing but fear and rumors of wars and problems all over the worldly globe the universe reveals whats really going on behind the closed doors in the board rooms of entertainment and investment banks this my people is just speckle of whats to come check this out its really very enlighten for us all.
Bug Music Secures New $200 Million Credit Facility Led By JP MorganBug Music, Inc., one of the world's largest independent music publishers, has secured a new $200,000,000 credit facility, which can be increased to $250,000,000. The facility, priced at the London interbank offered rate (Libor) plus 2.50%, was led by investment bank JP Morgan, it was announced today by Bug Music CEO John Rudolph."Oursound business fundamentals and practices continue to be rewarded as reflected by the facility size and attractive rate, in spite of a very difficult credit market. The significant upsizing of our credit facility will enable Bug Music to continue to have the financial resources to pursue acquisition opportunities and will enable us to continue to grow the company effectively," stated Rudolph.Rudolph added, "Jason Somerville and the JP Morgan's team in the Entertainment Industries Group are a great partner and have again demonstrated their ability to deliver. In the past two years, our competitors were often overly aggressive in their M&A activities whereas we were viewed as conservative. Nowthis discipline is paying off and is evidenced by JPMorgan and eight othersponsor banks joining the facility. Bug Music is a rapidly growing, highly profitable publisher with great prospects for continued growth."Thomas McGrath, Bug Music's Chairman, noted, "Bug Music continues to show "best in class" management and profitable growth through its M&A activity and its creative collaborations with its valued writers. With a music library of more than 250,000 copyrights, and offices now in seven cities across the US and Europe, Bug Music has emerged as the largest, most important independent music publisher dedicated tobuilding a business for the long-term. We are excited to be a part of this great growth story in music publishing and look forward to continuing our long-term partnership."Bug Music's recent activity has begun to redefine the nature of the traditional publishing company, by creating unique and innovative deals that allow for more creative collaboration beyond administration. The company's most recent deals have included the signing of Kara DioGuardi, American Idol's newest judge and one of the industry's hottest and most sought-after songwriter and producer; the acquisition of DioGuardi's vast catalog of hits by such artists as Christina Aguilera, Jonas Brothers, and Celine Dion; an equity stake and partnership agreement with Arthouse Entertainment; the acquisition of music production leader Selectracks; and the acquisition of Iggy Pop's catalog.

BestBuy Is Now On The Digital BandWagon!

This is another key insight of things to come as we proceed to the future of all things digital.
Best Buy has now purchased Napster for $121 million, an all-cash deal that values the company at $2.65 per share.  The buyout, confirmed Monday morning, gives Best Buy a digital store to complement its hardware footprint.  "We can foresee Napster acting as a platform for accelerating our growth in the emerging industry of digital entertainment, beyond music subscriptions," said Dave Morrish, executive vice president at Best Buy.

The per-share valuation essentially doubles the price from Friday, part of a relatively unenthusiastic response from Wall Street.  Napster board members approved the move, though the exit appears more of a relief than a bonanza.  The purchase includes Napster's cash holdings of $67 million, an account that has been eroding over the past few years.  Currently, Napster carries a subscriber base of roughly 700,000, and the company now offers MP3s on the download side.

At the bell on Friday, shares closed at $1.36, and shares bumped upward to $2.52 on Monday.  NAPS has dropped nearly 57 percent over the past year, and nearly 62 percent over the past two years.  Napster lost $16.5 million on revenues of $127.5 million for the fiscal year ending March 31st.  The deal is expected to close during the current quarter.

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The T-Pain Goes Digital

Hello World This Just goes to show the future is now and the playing is level ground where 1st will be last and last will be first(The spiritually concern no what it means)

Grammy Award-Winning singer, song writer, and producer T-Pain recently launched his much anticipated full digital independent record label Nappy Boy Digital. The label’s mission is to create a direct artist to consumer connection without the constraints of the traditional major labels. Nappy Boy Digital is an obvious next step for record labels who may have finally realized that the Internet is a friend and not a foe. But as I learn more about the label, I can’t help but wonder if T-Pain squandered this opportunity to make a lasting effect in the music industry.

It’s clear from reading the press release and my multiple visits to the Nappy Boy Digital website that Nappy Boy Digital is simply nothing more than a record label that will be using internet as their sole distribution method. Well it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that as internet music sales continue to rise and CD sales continue to decline, that a primary online distribution method is a no brain-er. What I was expecting from the subsequent launch of NBD was for T-Pain to use this opportunity to change the way record companies use the internet to market, build relationships with their fan base, and build communities surrounding their artist’s music. Lynne D has been profiling artists who have been on the leading edge of harnessing the power of the internet and social media, but what we are yet to see is a record label who has successfully grouped some of the most successful social media tools together into a package that can be duplicated for every artist on their roster on their very own web property. This is obviously not what T-Pain had in mind by branding his label as a digital record label.

T-Pain has failed to understand that everything on the web generally ties into one another; great music combined with social, downloads, and ringtones will create a following who will in turn use these tools to evangelize your music. Harnessing these tools collectively while giving your audience the ability to instantly own your music, can create a great reach with a very small budget. Instead of really impacting the music industry NBD will go down as a good opportunity squander by short sighted thinking.

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Video Wars: Not Just Yet | Black Web 2.0

I was so excited when someone told me they saw the new John Legend ft. Andre 3000 video on MTV. I went straight to YouTube to search for it, and clicked on the first link that came up. Imagine my surprise when the video was branded Yahoo!That got me thinking though. YouTube really IS the video king. I can’t even think about how many projects I’ve worked on that included video thus included research on online video players. The main theme that’s out there for sites is, even if they’re going to host their own video, they need to have some of their content on YouTube to drive traffic back to their own site. This of course, makes me both happy and sad. I am happy because amazingly obscure videos no one would have heard of (It’s so cold in the D anyone?) or hard to find videos can be found on YouTube. However, the quality is horrific (though I have been spotting some super high quality videos popping up like this opening for the japanese cartoon Moyashimon).You might be asking, why does this matter? As more and more video content goes digital, I gurantee that more and more Black video content will be online and the gap between Black broadcast video and Black online video will close. It is important as all these new black media sites that are incorporating video know where to put their stuff to gain traffic and properly engage in all that cool web 2.0 community stuff: YouTube (plus, professional content is more than likely going to be what ends up driving revenue on YouTube and I heard something about profit sharing with content owners and ad revenue).That being said, I still love vimeo for the quality and community aspects, and I am really hoping that they continue to have growth. Their HD channel is awesome… so awesome I’d say it looks shiny and new every time I see it. What is your favorite non-YouTube, community driven video site?

Video Wars: Not Just Yet | Black Web 2.0

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