(ranked by unique worldwide visitors  2008; comScore)
 
Blogger (222 million)
Facebook (200 million)
MySpace (126 million)
Wordpress (114 million)
Windows Live Spaces (87 million)
Yahoo Geocities (69 million)
Flickr (64 million)
hi5 (58 million)
Orkut (46 million)
Six Apart (46 million)
Baidu Space (40 million)
Friendster (31 million)
56.com (29 million)
Webs.com (24 million)
Bebo (24 million)
Scribd (23 million)
Lycos Tripod (23 million)
Tagged (22 million)
imeem (22 million)
 
…which one(s) are you on?

Christopher Lars Carlson is a student at the Berklee College of Music, where he majors in Music Production & Engineering and is president of the Music Business Club. An aspiring producer/manager, he is currently working with singer/songwriter Tom Howie. In order to connect with Chris, you can either find him on twitter or at his [...]

Digital Native - From Wikipedia: A digital native is a person who has grown up with digital technology such as computers, the Internet, mobile phones and MP3. (ie ME)
 
Growing up in a an Internet driven and technology powered world is affecting digital natives like myself, in ways that we don’t yet fully understand. We are not and [...]

Audiolife is a new service that just launched in public beta, offering musicians a one stop shop for creation and distribution of music, merchandise and other music-related goods.
The process goes like this: you create your virtual store and use Audiolife’s free tools to create content such as ringtones, CDs and even t-shirts. Then - again, [...]

One of the basic, irrefutable truths of all marketing techniques is that you must offer something above and beyond what you customer expects. Like it or not, your band’s marketing campaign needs to utilize the same basic marketing concepts as almost every other major company and brand out there and that includes providing something that [...]

If you’ve been retarded enough not to create a facebook account yet, do it. Now. Facebook is waay better for hella reasons;
design, layout, profiles, customization, site  organization, media, sharing, messaging, feeds, groups, fan pages, apps, usefulness, ease of use, search, privacy, navigation etc.
I could go on and on but most importantly, it’s the best communication [...]

Courtesy of the homie Greg Bates who runs Fanagment.
Within the ongoing discussions regarding new music business models that are taking place across the blogosphere, there is a lot of talk about providing ‘context’ to fans, and using that to monetize your work rather than relying on the sales of your music alone. However context isn’t [...]

I’m currently creating a presentation that will go more in depth on this topic.  Here are some key points; 
 Important behaviors:

Sharing emotion
Building social identity
Collective intelligence (set lists, fan reviews)
Sharing interpretations (analyzing lyrics)
Creating for each other (fan videos, remixes, playlists)

How the net empowers and changes fandom:

Transcends distance and extends reach
Provides group infrastructure
Supports archiving
Lesson social distance

One upside of [...]

I created this blog as a how to guide for urban artists who want to expand thier digital footprint. However, I have tons of friends who either run magazines or still work in traditional media. This is dedicated to all hood magazines and free lance writers…there is still hope for print as a medium and I want [...]