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Help Document Nigerian Music with “Elder’s Corner”

The world of music is an almost terrifyingly large place that grows and dimishes (in almost equal measures) with time. As cultures change they both shed and develop styles and, unless older genres are...

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Headliner.fm: A Social Network for Musicians

Even though the rest of the web has moved on from Myspace the site is still the go-to network for a great many musicians, maintaining relevancy with bands that use it to easily track fans, set up (and...

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Metropli App Makes Urban Reality a Game

Augmented reality games (or ARGs if you’re one of the cool kids) could very well transform how we see our world. By allowing us to use technology to interface with what is actually in front of us...

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Rhapsody Gets Set to Acquire Napster

Who would’ve thought, all those years ago, that Napster would go on to change hands more than a well-worn penny over the years. Well, maybe a lot of people with astounding foresight into the music...

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“Crystal Catacombs” Brings Players Back to (Old) School

Some of the most exciting projects in videogames these days are from extremely driven and talented amateur developers. For all of the bombast and spectacle of modern, big-budget games, the most...

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Is There A Market for Used Digital Media?

Buying and selling used DVDs, CDs and other physical media has been around for as long as the media itself. Doing the same with used digital media is a bit trickier though and, until now, setting up a...

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“Mongolian Bling” Doc: Mongolian Hip-Hop Exists, Is Awesome

You can be forgiven if you weren’t aware of Mongolian hip-hop until you just read this sentence; I wasn’t until happening upon a Kickstarter project intending to capture the rising genre through a...

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“BlindSide” Takes the ‘Video’ out of Videogames

A whole lot of what we talk about when we talk about videogames has to do with how they look. With everyone hyping the cutting-edge graphics of big releases and the bulk of indies relying on unique art...

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Kentucky Celebrates Kentucky with Crowdsourced Superbowl Ad

There are certain words that lose all meaning after having been said, heard or written too many times. I expect “Kentucky” to become that word for both you and I by the end of this week’s featured...

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New Doc Combines Art and Social Activism

Any form of communication that’s able to spread awareness of important social issues is well worth supporting. This week’s featured Kickstarter project, Art as a Weapon, is looking to use the...

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Agent 155 Announce Upcoming Social Media Network

It may seem like the web has coughed up more than enough social networks by now but, if the internet has taught me anything over the years it’s that no digital niche will ever go unfilled. Meet...

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New Doc Chronicles, Promotes Videogame Culture

Beyond the Game, despite sharing a name with a 2008 documentary about videogame culture, is a brand new film about, well, videogame culture. No, no, no! Don’t go just yet! This is a different project...

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SoundTracking Receives $4.75M in Financing

SoundTracking is becoming more and more popular and, of course, that means that it’s becoming more and more attractive to investors — to the point that it has just received some $4.75 million in...

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Refined Product Brings Farming to the Urban Apartment

Urban farming is catching on as more and more people are getting interested in DIY projects and locally-grown food, but it still remains something of a niche that is held back from wider popularity by...

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New Videogame Promises to Value Your Time

Most game designers pitch their work by describing how immersive their experience is, how it will suck a player in and joyfully consume their free time. Not Dinofarm Games, the creator of this week’s...

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Is There A Market for Used Digital Media?

Buying and selling used DVDs, CDs and other physical media has been around for as long as the media itself. Doing the same with used digital media is a bit trickier though and, until now, setting up a...

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“Mongolian Bling” Doc: Mongolian Hip-Hop Exists, Is Awesome

You can be forgiven if you weren’t aware of Mongolian hip-hop until you just read this sentence; I wasn’t until happening upon a Kickstarter project intending to capture the rising genre through a...

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“BlindSide” Takes the ‘Video’ out of Videogames

A whole lot of what we talk about when we talk about videogames has to do with how they look. With everyone hyping the cutting-edge graphics of big releases and the bulk of indies relying on unique art...

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Kentucky Celebrates Kentucky with Crowdsourced Superbowl Ad

There are certain words that lose all meaning after having been said, heard or written too many times. I expect “Kentucky” to become that word for both you and I by the end of this week’s featured...

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New Doc Combines Art and Social Activism

Any form of communication that’s able to spread awareness of important social issues is well worth supporting. This week’s featured Kickstarter project, Art as a Weapon, is looking to use the...

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