8 posts and columns on Grammys

On Twitter, the Oscars Were Huge — But Not Whitney Houston Huge

in Media on February 26 at 10:47 pm PT

Big TV event + lots of people on Twitter = lots and lots of people Tweeting about the Big TV event. But not that many people.
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Oscar Night Means a Torrent of Twittering. Trendrr Gets Ready to Tally It Up.

in Media on February 26 at 9:39 am PT

Like the Super Bowl and the Grammys, tonight’s Academy Awards will generate a flood of social media commentary — and lots of work for the start-ups trying to track all of that.
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On Twitter, U R So Not My Valentine

in Social on February 14 at 12:29 pm PT

As far as Twitter memes go, this one isn’t exactly going to topple a dictatorship. But it could cause some breakups.
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HomeAway Hopes Golden Globes Ad Can Fix Super Bowl Blunder

in Commerce on January 15 at 6:00 am PT

The new campaign — set to the tune of “Let’s Stay Together,” by Al Green — is much more subtle than last year’s ad.
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News Byte

Apple Gets a Grammy (Sort Of)

in Media on February 14, 2011 at 6:15 am PT

A tiny bit of Grammy glow for Apple: Last night marked the first time something recorded exclusively for its iTunes store won an award. Train’s version of “Hey, Soul Sister,” which won the “Best Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals” category, first appeared on the group’s “iTunes Session” EP last fall. (Though you can now buy the tune on Amazon, too, via a Grammy compilation).

Read All About It! But Don't Watch–The Grammys Tune Out Online

in Media on February 14, 2011 at 4:27 am PT

The Grammys generated a flurry of online interest last night, but the music industry’s biggest event of the year is AWOL this morning. Opportunity wasted.

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Grammy Judges Vet Nominees Online

in News on October 14, 2009 at 2:35 pm PT

Grammy judges will be listening to the upcoming award nominees online, thanks to a partnership with Yangaroo, a Canadian media-distribution start-up. The company’s technology encrypts music files with a watermark and lets record labels share them securely with radio stations and other destinations. The watermark allows Yangaroo to identify each person who has downloaded a track, so if a song is leaked, it can trace its origin.

CBS Interactive/CNET Re-Org: The Complete Memo

in Media on December 11, 2008 at 4:37 pm PT

CBS paid $1.8 billion for CNET last summer, and today it is dealing with the consequences: A re-org and layoffs. CBS execs won’t release a total for the number of people fired, so news will be coming out in piecemeal fashion for some time. In the meantime, here’s CBS Interactive’s new corporate structure, detailed in an internal memo distributed late today.