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Myspace to start ad-supported music delivery service
Either way, the service will be ad-supported and DRM-free.
Whether or not the new Myspace service happens, the news is great for consumers. Even if the record labels haven't figured it out yet, other companies are trying to come up with ways to get music to the people for free (or at least cheap and easy - like Amazon's MP3 Download Store).
[via CNET]

I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Rubito said 3:52AM on 2-20-2008
The latest attempt at new music distribution may be to give the music away free, but this is unsustainable from a cost/revenue perspective. There is not enough advertising demand available to subsidize the $30billion digital music market with ads; and if the inventory were created anyway, it would seriously deflate the display and keyword ad market.
Digital music market is now at $30 billion and rising (including illegal downloads). While digital advertising is only at $20 billion and slowing.
There's an excellent analysis at Brooding Savage blog.
http://www.BroodingSavage.com/journal/2008/2/7/ad-supported-music-1.html
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Rubito said 3:54AM on 2-20-2008
Sorry: The correct URL is http://www.broodingsavage.com/business-analysis/ad-supported-music-2.html