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International music star Shakira is taking a new approach to releasing her latest music video: she’s doing it through a live stream on Ustream, which will be emedded on her Facebook Page. According to Sony, this is the first time an artist has used the platform to debut a music video (Updated: Sony is wrong. Chamillionaire [...]

Listen To Google’s Discover Music Announcement Online This afternoon’s announcement of Google’s new enhanced music search service that includes play and purchase functionality courtesy of lala and iLike has been an open secret for more than a week. (see details) But that doesn’t mean that today’s press conference won’t include a few surprises. In case you [...]

More Video, Artist Dashboard, iTunes Purchase MySpace Music has gotten a major upgrade with the addition of a new music video hub, an artist dashboard offering analytics and track purchase via iTunes. The new features come at a time when the parent MySpace site is losing market share to Facebook. Music Video Hub MySpace hopes [...]

Guest Post:  Matt MacNaughton is the co-founder and CEO of Culture Jam which has launched several Twitter and Facebook applications that power viral promotions, allowing artists to distribute promotional content, host listening parties or enter contests in exchange for a fan’s post to their social networks.  Clients include Paramore, Imogen Heap, Moby, and The Used. [...]

     MySpace began rolling out new functionality today that allows users to sync their MySpace status updates with a Twitter feed.  Any U.S. user can opt-in so that updates created on MySpace will appear on Twitter and posts to Twitter appear within their MySpace status & mood.   The system was created using open [...]

Beginning this Saturday June 13th at `12.01 AM EST (4:02 AM GST) registered Facebook users can current their current Facebook generated random url for one that more closely resembles their name. The new usernames are limited to alphanumeric characters or a period (“.”) and must be at least 5 characters long. So custom urls will [...]

But will fans flock to a new section curated by the major labels and dominated by ads? Music helped build MySpace and the top ranking social networker is continuing the tradition. Perhaps acknowledging that user generated content is no longer enough, the new section dubbed The Music Feed features original content from three bands whose [...]