No... We Didn’t S-s-s-s-tutter.
Here are some things that might interest you for a nonce:
Howard L Weitzman has been appointed to the
Soundbreak.com Board of Directors. He is currently the CEO and partner of
Massive Media, a company that focuses on providing digital rights management-enabled applications and services. Soundbreak.com is a pre-IPO site that delivers live audio and video programming. We'll let you know if we can get you in on the "friends and family" stock offering…Not to be outdone,
Music.com has named
Gary Huff Senior VP of Industry Services. Music.com is a music portal. Duh. Huff was most recently VP and U.S. Head of Equity Research Technology at
Lehman Brothers. Even before that, he had a record deal with
RCA. He's also written music for aritsts and commercials, including
Diet Coke and
Honda. Now
that's entertainment…
Thirsty.com has picked
Nexgenix to help the youth-orientated site deliver content offline through
Palm Pilots, pagers and cell phones. Thirsty.com was founded by
Jeff Pollack and
Benny Medina of
Handprint Entertainment. It's set to launch in July, or as soon as people forget that Pollack directed "
Booty Call"…
Angrycoffee.com announced its own free, anonymous MP3 search engine,
Percolator. Its goal is to help independent acts promote themselves by recommending artists directly below the search window. Searching for
Eminem MP3s, for example, gives a long list of his songs and a small link to
Resin, "one of the premier Latin funk groups of the Bay Area"…
MusicMatch just snagged itself some more dough—
Thomson Multimedia has invested an additional amount in the company. The deal was announced at the MP3 summit in San Diego, where Thomson also unveiled some new gear, including an MP3 player the size of
matchbox twenty. Oh, wait that's just a "matchbox"…
LicenseMusic.com has signed a pact with
garageband.com, letting the unsigned band site take advantaged of LicenseMusic's instant online licensing service. Music is pre-cleared with all rights holders so that users of the service can license songs immediately. Procrastination rewarded! What a novel idea!…Look, it's an
MP3.com press release, imagine that. The company has said that its "Payback for Playback," where top MP3.com artists share a million dollars a month, will be continued through July. After that bands will need to call
hilary rosen',390,400);">hilary rosen',390,400);">Hilary Rosen's special hotline to get any money… And finally, from our Dubious Survey Department:
Insight Express issued a poll which states that a majority of online consumers don't believe that
Napster is guilty of copyright infringement. A poll of
hitsdailydouble.com staffers indicates nobody trusts polls.