Here's a video showing how the integration works: Ticketmaster just rolled out Facebook integration in its interactive seat map feature. If you sign into Facebook before you buy a ticket online, you'll be able to see which of your Facebook friends are also going and where they're sitting. A coup... Read more...
Americans have watched in astonishment, along with the rest of the world, at the violence that's erupted in England as young, disaffected Britons take to the streets to vent their rage. But could it happen in the United States as it grapples with a 25 per cent youth unemployment rate an... Read more...

A Tucson, Ariz., SWAT team defends shooting an Iraq War veteran 60 times during a drug raid, although it declines to say whether it found any drugs in the house and has had to retract its claim that the veteran shot first. And the Pima County sheriff, whose team conducted the raid, scolded th... Read more...
Via: Why does it seem like indies ― with some of the largest, major-distributed artists in the world ― are always fighting for scraps? In the latest episode, indies - as represented by Merlin - are suing Limewire for $5 million, according to court paperwork filed with the US District ... Read more...
Rupert Murdoch’s media empire News Corp., which represents the second largest media conglomerate in the world behind the Walt Disney Company, is taking a severe beating as Murdoch himself is having to address various criminal allegations, including that hisNews of the Worldtabloid illegally hacked... Read more...
Social media marketers often complain that their efforts aren't measurable. Hitwise used internal data to determine the ROI of Facebook advertising. It found that each Facebook fan generates about 20 visits per year to a retailer's site. "The figure of 1 fan = 20 extra visits to a website u... Read more...

Mike Trampe Of HipHopDX, Maad Management & Get Your Buzz Up breaks down the 10 Commandments of being an artist nowadays and how to submit to Blogs & Sites; Biggie Style! 0 "Hip Hop" Blog & Site Commandments "I been in this game for years, it made me a man, It’s rules to th... Read more...
Is Facebook planning to launch a music service with Spotify as the music provider, as reported by Forbes today? Highly unlikely. What Facebook is doing, rather, is reaching out to multiple digital media companies-including Spotify and other digital music providers-to discuss ways to more tightly ... Read more...