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Muse – The Resistance out on the 14th September

For something a little different, my current fave Muse have a new album coming out on the 14th of September, what is interesting from a internet / technology point of view is the changing face of promotion of music. With all of the wailing from the record companies about piracy and copyright infringement, the ways

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Using Web2.0 to promote Dan Brown\’s new book \”The Lost Symbol\”

Doubleday, the publisher of Dan Brown\’s new book has announced that a series of puzzles will be used to promote the new book. \”codes, cryptic trivia, puzzles, secret history, maps, aphorisms\” These will be made available through Twitter and Facebook. It is an example of the growing influence social media is having on the entertainment

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What\’s Hiding Behind That Shortened URL

TinyURL.com, bit.ly and the new su.pr from Stumbleupon are all tools you can use for shortening URL\’s, especially useful for Twitter and other micro blogging sites due to their limitation on each message. However, I had never thought of the possible implications of shortened URL\’s, primarily the ability to hide any references to bad sites

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