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Music Inspired By The Film More Than A Game imeem Widget
The soundtrack album, Music Inspired By The Film More Than A Game, is due September 29th on Interscope.
Music Inspired By The Film More Than A Game Tracklist:
1) Drop It Low - Ester Dean ft Chris Brown
2) Forever - Drake ft Kanye West, Lil Wayne, & Eminem
3) King On Set - T.I.
4) Stronger - Mary J. Blige
5) History - Jay-Z
6) Top Of The World - Rich Boy
7) I'm Ballin - Soulja Boy Tell'em
8) We Ready - Ya Boy
9) Go Hard - Hayes
10) Frozen - Jared Evan
11) If You Dream - Tank
Over at Hip Hop Press:
LEBRON JAMES HOSTS ALBUM RELEASE PARTY FOR MUSIC
INSPIRED BY THE FILM MORE THAN A GAME
Music Producer Harvey Mason Jr. Scores a Cinematic Slam Dunk as Producer
of the Film "More Than A Game" Starring LeBron James
Interscope Records and Culture Jam Labs Launch Application Promojam
for Fans to Promote Music Inspired by 'More Than A Game'
Lectro Black: Last Train to Paris Mixtape
FUHU, creators of the urFooz avatars that appeared in Lil' Kim's video Download, is deep in bed with the Acer Group:
"FUHU, a startup that produces virtual avatars and identity cards and rich media web widgets, has secured $6.25 million in Series B funding from The Acer Group (which produces Acer, Gateway, eMachines and Packard Bell computers). FUHU also signed a 10 year contract to distribute FUHU products in all Acer computers and smart mobile phones."
Now THAT'S Avatar Pimpin'!
Official Site: FUHU
Lil' Kim - Download f/T-Pain & Charlie Wilson
urFooz is happy to announce the appearance of their Fooz avatar/profile widgets in Lil' Kim's Download music video featuring T-Pain & Charlie Wilson:
"The new hot single "Download" starring urFooz and Lil' Kim is currently in the Top 10 on iTunes most popular downloads and has just been released. It has already had even greater success than its first two versions, based on the original "Computer Love" also starring singer in the Gap Band and legendary Soul and R&B Grammy winning multi-platinum selling artist, Charlie Wilson. The first version was released in 1985 and re-released in 1994."
They also state that "Acer, a leading provider of personal computing solutions, and FUHU, maker of urFooz.com, partnered together on the video" but it's unclear how deeply they were involved in shot calling though the whole thing has the feel of some agency putting it all together from behind the scenes.
Interesting widget concept:
"urFooz allows users to create an avatar and portable profile that contains music, photos, feeds and videos. The service then lets users syndicate their profile on the most popular social networking services and Web destinations using a single account."
Official Site: urFooz
Related ProHipHop Coverage:
urFooz Avatar Pimp FUHU Raises $6.25 Mil, Gets Acer Deal
I don't usually post audio or MP3s and related whatnot, largely because there's a limit to what I can post and I'm generally holding out for finished music videos, but:
a) I'm into supporting women in hip hop;
b) I'm digging this song and Rye Rye;
c) It's a good chance to add an Imeem widget to my out-of-date Widget collection.
Fader: Rye Rye Webisode with Super Pregs MIA
MySpace: Rye Rye
Musicane Widget for Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III
Hey, there's still time to digitally download Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III from Musicane!
Yay!
Hypebot has a list of TVT's unsecured creditors. I'm not sure how this was obtained but it's well worth a bit of browsing.
Plus, it's the first opportunity I've had to embed a Scribd document.
Document at Scribd:
TVT list of unsecured creditors
Spinlets Widget for The Pack's Standing In My Car
Just found out about the widget site Spinlets via a publicist promoting Dolla's Spinlets widget.
I went with The Pack's Standing In My Car because Dolla's Who The F*ck Is That drops both the F-word and the N-bomb to excess. Not a real problem for me in his case but it just doesn't fit ProHipHop's inching progress towards mainstream values. Of course, The Pack ain't no saints.
But I like both songs just fine.
Over at VidRap:
Dolla f/T-Pain & Tay Dizm - Who The F*ck Is That
The Pack - In My Car
Ego Twitter'in Just Like Snoop Dogg
So, Snoop Dogg's got a Twitter feed, or whatever they're called, and that's given Twitter and Snoop Dogg a widget based marketing opportunity.
Yes, you can now Shizzolate Your Twitters for minutes of...fun.
Considering that Twitter is designed to be a very lightweight app I find a bulky widget to be an odd promotional device for them [especially now that's it not showing up on my blog or their's, at least for the moment].
Snoop Dogg - Ego Trippin'
Note the use of the Ego Trippin' cover art in the widget.
I would think a lot of the people on Twitter will get a big kick out of this because the tech crowd eats this stuff up but I'm not sure if it will do much for Snoop's upcoming album.
But I may be wrong about Twitter users' response since some are now looking at the appearance of this widget as a sign to leave Twitter.
Widget distribution by Gigya.
ProHipHop's Jango Jukebox Widget
This Jango Jukebox widget is pretty darn cool though you never know who they're going to have at this stage and who's still missing. The lack of photos for some of these artists is kind of odd as well but it's still pretty darn cool.
It's getting so that bothering to license stuff makes a lot less sense than tossing up a widget from a Web 2.0 company doing the heavy lifting and that's one more piece of the puzzle to make small fry competitive with those whose pockets are much deeper.
Web 1.0: Business Development
Web 2.0: Widget Distribution
On a sad note for Jango, their press release at PR Web, which includes a framed version of the site at the bottom of the page as on many PR Web releases, automatically redirects to Jango.com.
You can hit the back button and then stop to keep it from doing that but if you're not interested in toying around, you can read what they're claiming over at Hip Hop Press.
Now if the width was customizable so you could add it to a blog sidebar, these guys would really have something. I don't understand why so many widget makers are ignoring the obvious but that's a lot of opportunities to pass up especially when you claim to have created a widget for "personal blogs".
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Gydget for Langarado Music Festival
The Langarado Music Festival is a rock, roots and world music festival that includes the Beastie Boys. But you're hearing about it here because I like this widget, or Gydget, as the creators call it.
It's a pretty cool self-contained widget that efficiently crams a lot into a small space without overloading it. There's also a contest for tickets and airfare to the festival for people who post it on their sites.
The Gydget service is free though the Learn More button currently takes you to a sign-up page before they'll tell you more.
A-Trak's Photo Widget
RCRD LBL launched in November and it's a pretty interesting experiment however I just wanted to post a couple of widgets from A-Trak for my ever growing, slowly loading widget collection.
Actually I just pulled one because it's pretty dodgy. And I haven't posted any of them before because they weren't working right when I tried. This one won't even center but there may be a simple reason I'm missing.
Anyway, I'd say they have widget problems.
Nikon Press Release:
NIKON PARTNERS WITH RCRD LBL,
HELPS MUSICIANS AND THEIR FANS CONNECT THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY
Official Site:
RCRD LBL
Imeem Widget for The American Godfather
How is this even still online? I'd ask Google.
Man, this widget just fades out on its own. The issue of designing one thing for multiple online contexts is clearly going to be an ongoing problem.
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