Epicenter (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
In this Wired.com video segment, Topspin Media’s Ian Rogers explains that while it’s a good idea for bands to sell their wares through iTunes, it’s pure folly to send customers away from a band’s website to buy the songs elsewhere. The website for the popular band MGMT, for example, includes “buy” links on iTunes, Amazon, and [...]
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
BOSTON & SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Paid, Inc. (OTCBB: PAYD) and Topspin Media are partnering to provide complementary services that enable artists and brands to market directly to their fans. Cofounded by former Yahoo Music general manager Ian Rogers, Topspin offers a seamless platform for direct-to-fan marketing, management and distribution. Paid is a full-service brand management...
The Kenilworthian (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
The Tal Memorial concluded in Moscow with former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik winning with 6 out of 9 and Vassily Ivanchuk and Magnus Carlsen close behind with 5.5 out of 9. None of the top three finishers had any losses. Current World Champion Viswanathan Anand lost in the final round to Levon Aronian to drop to 5 out of 9, leaving him tied with Aronian for fourth and fifth. Carlsen was widely...
GameSetWatch (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
... and lots more besides. Oh yes yes: Koalas and Uzis: Managing Get Busy Committee at FISTFULAYEN Ian Rogers, who runs amazing 'digital music indie distribution helper' company TopSpin, is managing an artist to see how the whole 'success in a digital world' thing works - this is his first post, and there's a second, too - and they are super relevant (esp. the second!) to publicizing anything...
The Closet Grandmaster (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
The very strong Tal Memorial tournament is on right now and it is in that light that GM Ian Rogers related a story, an encounter he had with the great man, in his column last Sunday for the Sun Herald. Actually, he first shared this story with me back in Dresden. It amused me then and it amuses me now. While analysing with his opponent post game, Rogers saw "a bony hand from an old...
Lefsetz Letter (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
READ THIS: Alert, Connect, Sell: Releasing Get Busy Committee You’re looking for answers? Here’s some. Not every band can have a manager like Ian Rogers of Topspin. Not every band is good enough to make it. I was thrown off a bit by the act having radio play, however minimal it is, but there’s a PLETHORA of good information in this [...]
The Closet Grandmaster (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Chess may be said to be the "gymnasium of the mind", but P.E. grads teaching chess? Commenting on this piece of news ( "Azerbaijani chess schools lacking coaches: deputy education minister" ) in today's Sun Herald, GM Ian Rogers writes: While Australian Education Departments are notorious for using humanities teachers to cover for the shortage of maths and science teachers,...
Our Bewcastle Ancestry (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
... Shawhead Robert was John's son. This tradition has continued into the present. My uncle Frank Rogers, the son of Maggie Goodfellow Story, became a stonemason, as did his son, my cousin Ian Rogers. This adds up to six known generations of stonemasons in the Story line. There was a gap in my grandmother's generation, as her brother Willie worked in the grocery business and Robert became...
Music Ally (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
... Daniel, R2G/Wa3.cn * Daniel Ek, Spotify * Loic Le Meur, Seesmic * Alexander Ljung, SoundCloud * Ian Rogers, Topspin * Anthony Volodkin, Hype Machine Apply HERE Who should apply? * Your company must be relatively new (i.e. it should not have been operating commercially for more than approximately three years) * Your company’s technology and/or business model should demonstrate genuine innovation...
Feld Thoughts (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
... Foundry Group spot . That’s one (very effective) way to get my attention. Music Hack Day Boston : Ian Rogers, the CEO of Topspin Media point this out to me. It’s happening on 11/21 and 11/22 in Boston at Microsoft NERD and includes plenty of friends (such as Harmonix, Sonos, and Boxee). If you are into music + tech don’t miss it. GoogTweetBing: Yeah, you read it hear 3,412,413th. Google+Twitter...
Wired: Underwire (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
... ‘too serious’ hip-hop, [with] intentional variety, unusual song structure and topics, etc.,” said Ian Rogers, head of Topspin Media, in an e-mail to Wired.com. Topspin is handling the release of Uzi Does It , which will be available for pre-order Oct. 27 and will hit digital retailers Nov. 10. I’m not 100 percent up on the latest beats, but some of this sound is mostly new to me. Take a...
Epicenter (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
An obscure sharable playlist file format called XSPF (pronouned “spiff”) has led to the development of Playdar, a “music content resolver service” with implications for everything from how much Pandora and Spotify have to pay record labels and how fans share music with each other. A group of programmers and digital music heavy hitters including Ian [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
... and CEO of Seesmic (France/USA); Alexander Ljung, founder and CEO of SoundCloud (Germany/UK); Ian Rogers, CEO of Topspin (USA); and Anthony Volodkin, founder and CEO of Hype Machine (USA).
 
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