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Blendtec, a small Utah-based maker of commercial and home kitchen blenders have increased their sales five times with a series of “Will it Blend” videos, proving how strong their blenders really are.
The company’s viral videos star Blendtec CEO Tom Dickson sporting a lab-coat, blending everything from hockey pucks, to Chuck Norris action-figures to iPhones.
Seems the [...]

SplashCast , according to their About Us page, enables anyone to create streaming media channels that mix together video, music, photos, narration, text, as well as RSS feeds, PowerPoint presentations and PDF documents. These user-generated channels can be played and easily syndicated on any web site, blog, or social network page. When channel owners modify [...]

Amazon’s much talked about music store, called Amazon MP3 is now operational (in a public beta mode) and offers consumers over 2 million songs from more than 180,000 artists on over 20,000 labels. This includes some major labels like EMI Music and Universal Music Group.
Music purchased through Amazon MP3 is DRM free, plays [...]

Sony recently reportedly to have decided to close Connect, it’s online music store. Today we find out that Virgin Digital is shutting down as well.
As of last week, the UK service stopped accepting new customers and selling music. Seems US users will have the option of moving their credits over to Napster or [...]

Both The Calgary Herald and freelance writer/blogger Joel Keller ran stories about the impact that Apple’s iPod Nano TV commercial featuring Feist’s pesky little song “1,2,3,4″ is causing.
I know we’ve all seen this ad way too many times over the last few weeks but that damn song is so damn catchy! It feels like this [...]

ReverbNation have launched a new widget called TuneWidget, enabling artists & bands to create a mini website of sorts. It’s been described as 5 widgets in 1, seeing you can add music, tour dates, band info, videos, and it even has a mailing list sign up feature.
You can grab the code from the share [...]

Trent Reznor, the lead singer of Nine Inch Nails kicked off his concert in Sydney, AUS last week urging fans to steal the band’s music stating that fans were being ripped off.
At the Beijing Pop Festival earlier this month, he informed Chinese fans who couldn’t obtain legal copies of his album to download it off [...]

Mashable reported that Warner Music has released the new James Blunt album, All the Lost Souls through a widget on Blunt’s MySpace page. The widget, powered by LaLa.com offers US consumers the ability to listen to the entire CD for free. Users can then opt to purchase the album for $9.99 and take advantage [...]

Mixaloo is the new mix-tape of the digital age. You create a mix, promote it via a widget which you embedded and offer up your “mixed-tape” for resale on social networks like LiveJournal, Blogger, MySpace, Facebook and more.
There are over three million available songs to choose from, they offer users many design and personalization options [...]

Two Hours Traffic, who are signed to Bumstead Productions (and a client) recently embarked on the first leg of their Canadian tour.
As with many new bands, getting the word out about your tour dates let alone getting potential fans to listen to your music is challenging. So with the help of M:30 Communications, we joined [...]