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It's kind of annoying how influenced good sites/apps can be by corporations. Instagram is basically turning into Facebook.

I was on facebook today and noticed a sponsor story button. Apparently, for $7 you can get a status or pic "sponsored", and they will appear more frequently on people's news feeds. 

Thought this was an interesting note in the facebook stock saga and a good way to illustrate that in new media-from mashups to social networking-money tends to be a major factor. 

"Anonymous" fights the corporate world.. Zynga is next, dear Facebook game fans.

I've been noticing people posting this copyright post on their walls, and this story explains that whole situation.

The artist POGO remixed audio from the movie "Up" to create this awesome song!!!  I wasn't sure about copyright stuff but it is linked to the facebook Disney/Pixar page, so maybe?  Or maybe they're just taking advantage of the publicity?

SMS texting is going to be replaced!

Google's new privacy policy is taking too much of the user's personal information when collecting data. They aren't spelling out their intentions for the data, and this sort of stuff freaks me out. All of these major companies i.e. google, Facebook, twitter have found ways to take more and more information from the user without his knowledge. 

When catching up on some SP episodes this weekend I cam across this: an episode where kyle gets kidnapped by apple, because he did not read the iTunes contract before clicking agree. this brought me back to our discussion about Facebook and their terms and agreement.

Remix right at home. I really don't know the exact focus, but I'm sure Becca can tell us all about it.

Sean "Diddy" Combs took to YouTube, Twitter and Facebook this week to announce the launch of REVOLT TV - a new socially connected music and news-driven cable channel coming to the Comcast-NBC network in 2013. Combs, the founder and CEO of Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment Group and hip-hop artist, says he wants to connect music makers to music lovers.

Around my sophomore year of high school, I remembered a great instrumental I'd heard at some point in my life but couldn't place. I sung it to a friend (ber ner ner ner ner neeer ner ner…) and while she recognized it, she couldn't place it either. We made it our mission to figure it out, asking everyone we knew, and eventually someone posted the attached link to my facebook. This class made me suspicious that perhaps the instrumental wasn't actually created by DJ Kool. Using whosampled.com, I found out that the this awesome piece has nothing to do with him. The entire instrumental is taken from "The 900 Number" by The 45 King (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axJpBlxW6n0). But then I looked up The 45 King, and discovered that he, too, is a DJ. "Let Me Clear my Throat," which gets the credit for this instrumental, is actually a remix of "The 900 Number," which is a remix of Marva Whitney's "Unwind Yourself" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym7IoodKeWI). And Whitney is just the singer; I wasn't able to find the sax player behind it all. I think it's upsetting that most of the credit goes to DJ Cool, who merely added a worthless hook you wish wasn't there and small bits of songs which barely alter The 45 King's work. At least Mac Miller, the most recent borrower I could find, changed it up a bit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3GGN51_pjE

I posted this not because of politics but because the writer makes a very good statement about new media and how its being share. Basically the power of new media and the effects it has on a campaign, career or public image.