Apple to start a record label?

According to a www.macrumors.com story, they say that Apple, Jay Z and Beyonceare starting a record label.In my opinion, this is the future. Apple gets a their own label and signs their own talent. They can then offer ideal contracts to their talent. The musicians may be able to work out a download percentage from Apple. Lets say with a regular label they would get 4¢ for every download. With Apple's label they be entitled to say 70¢ per download. Thats powerful.Also, Apple would be able to use that as leverage with the other labels who are pressuring Apple to raise their download price from 99¢.The full rumor can be read herehttp://www.macrumors.com/2007/07/15/apple-to-start-record-label-with-jay-z-and-beyonce/-Matson

Need help buying your first Mac?

Buying an apple computer can be a monsterous task. You have to price shop, but first, you have to know exactly what you want and you don't want to get stuck talking to the sales guy in fear they will suggest something you don't need.You need an Ace up your sleeve. If your buying your first Apple Computer or if you are an avid Apple user, check out myfirstmac.com.The information at this site is sure to make you feel more comfortable about buying your first Apple Computer.Web Site ReviewDesign 4 Stars*Usability 4 Stars*Content 5 Stars*Ratings based on 5 Starshttp://www.myfirstmac.com-Matson

A Wi-Fi Ipod?

Apple has a few patents in for what hints at a Wi-Fi Ipod.Yes, I'll take one. As the last couple of weeks have gone by I have thought about the ipone and everyday there are stories of what people like and don't like about it. Most of the reviews I read are giving the iphone a good rating.I am one of those that will wait until the next gen comes out. Maybe the price and applications will be better.But if you could take the phone aspect out and possibly add more hard drive space, the ability to surf the web (a 3G would be nice) I think it has the potential to be bigger than the iphone. Image that.Also if could put together a wish list, I would like it to have the wide touch screen added too.-Matson

Blogs at Work?

If you have a team or small company and you find that most of the time you can't get on the same page. Create a blog and share the url with a group or everyone. Use this service (blogger.com). Its free and takes seconds to set up.Blogs are great for communication throughout. What boss wouldn't want to know what's happing with their employees. This way, its a gateway into what's happing and what news or updates there are to a particular situation. A challenge to all of you bosses out there. Create a blog and share it. You may find that this is just what everyone needed.-Matson

Using Web 2.0 to help advertise your website

Lets say you have a website and you have just spent time creating it or you paid someone a lot of money to create.How can you promote it for no money?One of the answers is using Web 2.0 technology. For the most part, all you have to do is set up an account with the following on-line services and ad then make it apart of your schedule to update each service once in awhile.Here are the Web 2.0 On-line services that are all the buzz these days.Blogger.com https://www.blogger.com/start Twitter.com http://twitter.com/Myspace.com http://www.myspace.com/Facebook.com http://www.facebook.com/
Blogger is great because, as you may all ready know, you can set the blog up really fast and then post to it within seconds. And your done. The whole world knows what you have to say.Twitter is nice because you can give brief updates about what your up to. You can place a few lines of code into blogger, facebook, myspace and other programs and they will all be updated instantly.Myspace although slow at time has a wide range of people you can get in touch with. You can post bulletins and be in the forefront of everyone. Just try not to overdo it.Facebook is a classy and well run social networking tool. Most people prefer this to myspace. But when promoting a company, you may just want to have every outlet available.There are some that I did not mention today, they are in their early stages and for the most part will be mentioned at a later date, when I get the chance to test them out.So, how can using Web 2.0 help advertise your website. Simple. When you sign up for these accounts and spend some time developing social networks, this helps build your company rep and brand.By placing the links from your accounts on your website, this makes Google happy as well as other search engines. Your sites importance according to Google goes by the content and outbound/inbound links.Now get out there and expand your business.-Matson