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Digital Music Startups Pit Traditional Publishers vs. Independent Creators

At the first day of DEMMX, Antony Bruno of Billboard gamely herded a gaggle of digital music startups. Amidst the many conversation threads, one theme stood out: despite their renegade personas, these guys don't agree on who benefits most from the next generation of music distribution.

Top 10 Mobile Marketing Campaigns

A fun and dynamic tour of top mobile campaigns was a highlight at yesterday's Mobile Marketing Forum. Eric Wheeler, Senior Partner with Ogilvy Interactive, and Gene Keenan, VP Mobile Services for Isobar International, shared a number of interesting campaigns put together by mobile marketers. These are interesting not only for brand promotion, but also for building community at any organization. In no particular order, here are the Top 10:

Where 2.0 Call for Participation

O'Reilly Media's Where 2.0 conference has opened up its call for participation. If you're innovating around location-aware technology, the conference organizers would like to hear from you! Proposals are due by January 5th. Here's the blurb on what they're looking for:

Fox, Bravo, and Tribune Agree: Years of Investment Ahead for Mobile Content

Mobile media has begun to appear within the broader media strategies of established content providers. While this work has been innovative, it was clear from expert discussion at today's Mobile Marketing Forum that years of investment lie ahead before mobile media's promise can be delivered upon. Here's a quick look at how name brands are investing to develop mobile as a content platform:

New Web 2.0 Products Make Information Seamless for Users

"What's going to happen now is a little bit of contolled chaos." That's how John Battelle kicked off the five-minute launch presentations at the recent Web 2.0 Launch Pad. Here are my snapshot reviews:

Holiday Planning with the Thanksgiving Calculator

(Some practical fun for the holidays...) As many people know - especially those who invite themselves - my house is the place to be for Thanksgiving. Over the last ten years, my smallest turkey day seated 10 around the table; the largest, 45 people ensconced somewhere in the house with a full plate. All of those overworked entrepreneurs that you know? They probably end up at my place.

Web 2.0 Maintains Rate of Women's Participation

Environment: The sold-out Web 2.0 Summit held in San Francisco this month, hosted by O'Reilly Media and CMP Technology.

Notable Ideas from Startup Camp

Last week's Startup Camp in Mountain View provided an opportunity for startup show-and-tell. From paper sketches to profitable businesses with product demos, here are just a few of the folks that were talking up their ideas:

Mashery Pioneers the Conference Launch Hack

Mashery launched today under the guise of the Web 2.0 conference at the Palace Hotel....but no, Mashery isn't part of the conference. Mashery has executed an amazingly audacious conference hack.

Best Quotes of Startup Camp

Overheard in sessions at Startup Camp, with truthful ironies that are worth sharing:

"There are companies like, digg, del.ici.ous, and Flickr that can be very viral. Then there are the rest of us." - unknown camp attendee

"Leaders are egomaniacs with an inferiority complex." - Dave Sifry

Leadership Hacks with Dave Sifry

This week's Startup Camp included a lively session on 'leadership hacks' moderated by Technorati founder Dave Sifry. The top three hacks? Plan for mistakes, focus on your team, and set expectations.

What's Interesting About Participatory Content

While at Startup Camp yesterday, I was stopped for a hallway interview with ZDNet's James Hilliard. One of the concepts that survived the cutting room floor was a quick overview of my interest in participatory content and information, including both the content value chain and its supporting infrastructures. Since this has been the subject of much recent discussion (and I'm busy around the topic given the current investments that I manage), I thought it worth posting the link: just visit David Berlind's blog post to see the brief video interview, which accompanies David's "report from the field."

Startup Camp Helps Entrepreneurs Leap Forward

Over 300 entrepreneurial spirits gathered in Mountain View today for Startup Camp. During one of the morning breakouts, participant introductions revealed a snapshot demographic: