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Some interest here at news that London-based rocker Noush Skaugen is to perform live at Twitter’s San Fran HQ tomorrow (Friday).
Noush Skaugen has the distinction of being Twitter’s number one unsigned artist with 1.2 million followers (Stephen Fry has 1.3 million followers).
Skaugen’s performance will streamed live at www.noushskaugen.com/live at 5.30pm PST which is 1.30am GMT – the first unsigned act to be given this opportunity.
There’s a lot of focus on Apple’s iTunes LP format today, so trust Damon Albarn, EMI and the Gorillaz to take it up a notch with announcement of all manner of new album-related goodliness being made available exclusively from today via iTunes – as the much-anticipated ‘Plastic Beach’ album ships today in the U.S. on EMI’s Virgin Records.
Two conflicting iTunes reports this morning take a look at the fortunes – or, arguable, lack of them, of Apple’s iTunes Plus format (soon to be upgraded, at least according to one industry exec).
Report one is the usual fire and brimstone and doom and gloom affair, in which Salon takes a look at the first six months of the format’s existence, and observing it has thus far failed to fully grab consumer or industry support.
“Like an enhanced CD or a DVD packaged with a physical album, iTunes LP’s bonus materials may interest super-fans, but they aren’t generating much buzz among mainstream consumers, and don’t appear to be stimulating LP sales at all. “It’s something most people will look at once,” is how one person put it.”
Thanks to Cory Doctorow and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
The latter have published the Apple iPhone Developer Program License Agreement, “a secretive document that requires its signatories to agree to a gag order on the terms of the deal.” The EFF got its hands on the document by filing a Freedom of Information Act request to NASA. EFF Senior IP Attorney Fred von Lohmann thinks it is a pretty poor deal for devs…
Here via UberGizmo and Instructables is one of those images sure to spark a tiny frisson of Mac geek happiness in some congregation members out there – Snow Leopard running on a 1984 Macintosh.
We so like this story on the Next Web. It truly reflects the increasingly weird nature of Apple-focused navel-gazing these days, as reports increasingly reflect the personal feeling/desire of some reporters in some form of wish-fulfillment fantasy.
Take the numerous reports that the iPad will have some front-facing (or back-facing) camera. These are becoming ever more mental. Now some satirist at Next Web has sat down to deliver something that reflects the times…a story that Steve Jobs runs Flash on the iPad.
We love the whole notion of this. Taking a grainy image of Jobs and showing it in different blown up views, complete with amateur-looking marks on the images which offer the author the chance to make ever more gleeful claims, such as “this is Flash”.
Now we know Apple and Google aren’t such great friends right now, but now it looks like Google and Play.com may have figured out quite how to leak the Holy Grail of price discovery rumours, letting slip what could be potential prices for UK iPads….
Look – its Apple’s new TV ad spot, extolling the virtues of its camera-free (like anyone really needs one) iPad. Look in wonder as those hands lovingly caress the digital revolution. Ask yourself how often you’ll see one pulled out for playback on the tube or bus…is this a computer for some of us from the people who made the Mac for the rest of us?
As the iPad looms, comics fans are buzzing off a big deal discount sale via giant online retailer Amazon US, which is offering key Disney-owned Marvel-published graphic novels at an incredible fraction of their usual price.
Granted we’re stretching here, but if you are in the US and you like your graphic novels Amazon’s prices are really something else – and the move is generating consternation across the comics industry.
We’re curious if Amazon knows something we don’t and the release of these books at such low prices is the retailer’s reaction to suspicions of new subscription-based services via Disney.
Highlights from Michael Jackson’s HiStory world tour have been released as an iTunes and BlackBerry application.
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