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Stream Your iTunes Library via SpotifiTunes

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Some guys from UK are apparently tired of waiting for Apple to come up with a streaming music service.  They want to have access to their iTunes library even when away from their home computer. And so the solution? SpotifiTunes.

To explain it briefly, SpotifiTunes lets you upload your iTunes database from your PC or Mac to the Spotify website. Then it gives you a summary of your collection categorized in genre, artist and album. You can then select any artist or album and find songs from Spotify and stream it where ever you may be. Of course, you need to have Spotify installed on your computer to use SpotifiTunes.

Not all songs from your iTunes Library may be available in Spotify, although majority of your iTunes music collection might be there.

To use SpotifiTunes, you need to find your iTunes  Music XML file and upload it to this site. You can find your iTunes Music XML file at the following directory on your machine:

Windows: \Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music Library.xml

Mac: /Users/username/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music Library.xml

While this may not be an official Apple service to let iTunes user stream their music online, still, it’s a good work-around while we all await for Apple to release an iTunes streaming music service.  SpotifiTunes is not in any way affiliated with either Spotify or iTunes. This beta tool is currently available only in Sweden, Norway, Finland, UK, France and Spain.

Top 100 Social Brands of 2009, iPhone Tops Again

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Vitrue, a social media management company has just released their Top 100 Social Brands of 2009. For the second time, iPhone is again at the number 1. Following the iPhone are Disney, CNN, MTV, MTV and NBA.

Aside from iPhone other social brands that show significant trend in 2009 are game consoles with Nintendo Wii at #7, PlayStation at #13, and Nintendo at #21. Adidas also made it to the top of the list among the sports apparel brands.  For Sports, NBA and MLB are among the most talked about brands.

For the fashion circuit, Louis Vuitton, Prada and Burberry made it to the top of the list while media brands such as CNN, MTV, ESPN, CBS among others also made some noise in 2009.

Incidentally, don’t be surprised if you can’t find Google, Facebok and Twitter on the list. According to Vitrue, they omitted these companies from the list since they are only measuring those that use social technology and not the companies who are the technology themselves.

Vitrue’s analysis comprised on over 2,000 popular brands on the social web.

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Best of 2000s in Marketing, Media and Agency

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As the first decade of the 21st century comes to a close, expect more “top list” kind of postings to come up in the next couple of weeks. This is the best time to release those lists as this is the time to look back and analyze what has happened in our lives during the past 10 years.

In Marketing, Media and Agency World, the decade has been a pretty exciting one. And Adweek Media got it fully covered with its best and brightest in the branding, marketing, media and agency world covering 33 categories.

Among those who made it to Adweek Media’s Best of 2000s are the likes of Google, Rupert Murdoch, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Disney Channel, Wired and other Internet famous people, organizations, companies and websites which all graced our lives this past decade.

So, here’s Adweek Media’s Best of the 2000s: [Read more…] about Best of 2000s in Marketing, Media and Agency

Coke Takes Facebook App for a Spin, Launches Own Facial Profiler App

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Coca-Cola is testing the effectivity of social media anew when it comes to establishing a branding campaign. And their latest foray? – none other than a Facebook App called Facial Profiler which could either rock on to your senses and make you believe that it’s actually cool to drink Coke Zero or simply annoy you out of your wits for adding to the Facebook noise. [Read more…] about Coke Takes Facebook App for a Spin, Launches Own Facial Profiler App

New York Times Brings Newspaper-Like Reading via Times Skimmer

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In a galant effort to bring in renewed interest to newspaper service, at least via the online platform, New York Times has launched its Times Skimmer application. Ironically, this new application will remind you of how it feels to read daily news as if you were reading the traditional newspaper.

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