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Author : Renee Ambrosek
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781404207202
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Shawn Fanning written by Renee Ambrosek and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2006-08-15 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life and career of Shawn Fanning, the founder of Napster.
Author : Christopher Mitten
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 9780761326564
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Shawn Fanning written by Christopher Mitten and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the founder and director of the music enchange Internet company, Napster, focusing on the court cases of 2000.
Author : Joseph Menn
Publisher : Crown Business
ISBN 13 : 1400050065
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)
Download or read book All the Rave written by Joseph Menn and published by Crown Business. This book was released on 2003-04-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At age seventeen, Shawn Fanning designed a computer program that transformed the Internet into an unlimited library of free music. Tens of millions of young people quickly signed on, Time magazine put Fanning on its cover, and his company, Napster, became a household name. It did not take long for the music industry to declare war, one that has now engulfed the biggest entertainment and technology companies on the planet. For All the Rave, top cyberculture journalist Joseph Menn gained unprecedented access to Fanning, other key Napster and music executives, reams of internal e-mails, unpublished court records, and other resources. The result is the definitive account of the Napster saga, for the first time revealing secret take-over and settlement talks, the unseen role of Shawn’s uncle in controlling Napster, and hidden agendas and infighting from Napster’s trenches to the top ranks of the German media giant Bertelsmann. All the Rave is a riveting account of genius and greed, visionary leaps and disastrous business decisions, and the clash of the hacker and investor cultures with that of the copyright establishment. Napster left a generation of music fans feeling that paying the recording industry close to twenty dollars for a CD was a foolish and unnecessary extravagance, which provoked a still-growing backlash against digital media consumers that might leave them with less control than ever. Here is the inside story of the young visionary and the company that made it happen. From the Hardcover edition.
Author : Steve Knopper
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416594558
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Appetite for Self-Destruction written by Steve Knopper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, Appetite for Self-Destruction recounts the epic story of the precipitous rise and fall of the recording industry over the past three decades, when the incredible success of the CD turned the music business into one of the most glamorous, high-profile industries in the world -- and the advent of file sharing brought it to its knees. In a comprehensive, fast-paced account full of larger-than-life personalities, Rolling Stone contributing editor Steve Knopper shows that, after the incredible wealth and excess of the '80s and '90s, Sony, Warner, and the other big players brought about their own downfall through years of denial and bad decisions in the face of dramatic advances in technology. Big Music has been asleep at the wheel ever since Napster revolutionized the way music was distributed in the 1990s. Now, because powerful people like Doug Morris and Tommy Mottola failed to recognize the incredible potential of file-sharing technology, the labels are in danger of becoming completely obsolete. Knopper, who has been writing about the industry for more than ten years, has unparalleled access to those intimately involved in the music world's highs and lows. Based on interviews with more than two hundred music industry sources -- from Warner Music chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr. to renegade Napster creator Shawn Fanning -- Knopper is the first to offer such a detailed and sweeping contemporary history of the industry's wild ride through the past three decades. From the birth of the compact disc, through the explosion of CD sales in the '80s and '90s, the emergence of Napster, and the secret talks that led to iTunes, to the current collapse of the industry as CD sales plummet, Knopper takes us inside the boardrooms, recording studios, private estates, garage computer labs, company jets, corporate infighting, and secret deals of the big names and behind-the-scenes players who made it all happen. With unforgettable portraits of the music world's mighty and formerly mighty; detailed accounts of both brilliant and stupid ideas brought to fruition or left on the cutting-room floor; the dish on backroom schemes, negotiations, and brawls; and several previously unreported stories, Appetite for Self-Destruction is a riveting, informative, and highly entertaining read. It offers a broad perspective on the current state of Big Music, how it got into these dire straits, and where it's going from here -- and a cautionary tale for the digital age.
Download or read book Maximum PC written by and published by . This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maximum PC is the magazine that every computer fanatic, PC gamer or content creator must read. Each and every issue is packed with punishing product reviews, insightful and innovative how-to stories and the illuminating technical articles that enthusiasts crave.
Author : David Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781439109809
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book The Facebook Effect written by David Kirkpatrick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exclusive inside story of Facebook and how it has revolutionized the way the world uses the Internet. “A fantastic book, filled with great reporting and colorful narrative” (Walter Isaacson). In little more than half a decade, Facebook has gone from a dorm-room novelty to a company with 500 million users. It is one of the fastest growing companies in history, an essential part of the social life not only of teenagers but hundreds of millions of adults worldwide. As Facebook spreads around the globe, it creates surprising effects—even becoming instrumental in political protests from Colombia to Iran. Veteran technology reporter David Kirkpatrick had the full cooperation of Facebook’s key executives in researching this fascinating history of the company and its impact on our lives. Kirkpatrick tells us how Facebook was created, why it has flourished, and where it is going next. He chronicles its successes and missteps, and gives readers the most complete assessment anywhere of founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the central figure in the company’s remarkable ascent. This is the Facebook story that can be found nowhere else. How did a nineteen-year-old Harvard student create a company that has transformed the Internet and how did he grow it to its current enormous size? Kirkpatrick shows how Zuckerberg steadfastly refused to compromise his vision, insistently focusing on growth over profits and preaching that Facebook must dominate (his word) communication on the Internet. In the process, he and a small group of key executives have created a company that has changed social life in the United States and elsewhere, a company that has become a ubiquitous presence in marketing, altering politics, business, and even our sense of our own identity. This is the Facebook Effect.
Author : Joel Weiss
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402038038
Total Pages : 1611 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments written by Joel Weiss and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-11-24 with total page 1611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments was developed to explore Virtual Learning Environments (VLE’s), and their relationships with digital, in real life and virtual worlds. The book is divided into four sections: Foundations of Virtual Learning Environments; Schooling, Professional Learning and Knowledge Management; Out-of-School Learning Environments; and Challenges for Virtual Learning Environments. The coverage ranges across a broad spectrum of philosophical perspectives, historical, sociological, political and educational analyses, case studies from practical and research settings, as well as several provocative "classics" originally published in other settings.
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1535816309
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Corporate Disasters: written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate Disasters: What Went Wrong and Why profiles the biggest corporate mistakes or misdeeds throughout history -- covering the people, the times, the decisions made. This volume covers Mergers and Acquisitions. Each essay puts the business and its operators in the context of its own time, explaining the market, social, and technology forces at play, and each explores the key make-or-break decisions that led to disaster.
Author : Johan Söderberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113591639X
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Hacking Capitalism written by Johan Söderberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement demonstrates how labour can self-organise production, and, as is shown by the free operating system GNU/Linux, even compete with some of the worlds largest firms. The book examines the hopes of such thinkers as Friedrich Schiller, Karl Marx, Herbert Marcuse and Antonio Negri, in the light of the recent achievements of the hacker movement. This book is the first to examine a different kind of political activism that consists in the development of technology from below.
Author : CĂLIN VÂLSAN
Publisher : Editura Universității din București - Bucharest University Press
ISBN 13 : 6061612052
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (616 download)
Download or read book THE NATURE OF THE CORPORATION: A TALE OF ECONOMIC COMPLEXITY written by CĂLIN VÂLSAN and published by Editura Universității din București - Bucharest University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a bold vision of the modern corporation, one that some might find unsettling, for it calls into question the real implications of human agency, and the very notion of economic efficiency.
Download or read book CMJ New Music Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2002-10-21 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CMJ New Music Report is the primary source for exclusive charts of non-commercial and college radio airplay and independent and trend-forward retail sales. CMJ's trade publication, compiles playlists for college and non-commercial stations; often a prelude to larger success.
Author : Brian McCullough
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631493086
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)
Download or read book How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone written by Brian McCullough and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Library Journal Best Book of the Year Tech-guru Brian McCullough delivers a rollicking history of the internet, why it exploded, and how it changed everything. The internet was never intended for you, opines Brian McCullough in this lively narrative of an era that utterly transformed everything we thought we knew about technology. In How the Internet Happened, he chronicles the whole fascinating story for the first time, beginning in a dusty Illinois basement in 1993, when a group of college kids set off a once-in-an-epoch revolution with what would become the first “dotcom.” Depicting the lives of now-famous innovators like Netscape’s Marc Andreessen and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, McCullough also reveals surprising quirks and unknown tales as he tracks both the technology and the culture around the internet’s rise. Cinematic in detail and unprecedented in scope, the result both enlightens and informs as it draws back the curtain on the new rhythm of disruption and innovation the internet fostered, and helps to redefine an era that changed every part of our lives.
Author : Greg Kot
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416547274
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Ripped written by Greg Kot and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-05-19 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A national radio host and critically acclaimed music journalist shows how the Internet revolutionized the music industry--and turned big record labels on their ear. b&w photographs.
Author : Harry Henderson
Publisher : Infobase Holdings, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1438183275
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book A to Z of Computer Scientists, Updated Edition written by Harry Henderson and published by Infobase Holdings, Inc. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the previous edition: "Entries are written with enough clarity and simplicity to appeal to general audiences. The additional readings that end each profile give excellent pointers for more detailed information...Recommended."—Choice "This well-written collection of biographies of the most important contributors to the computer world...is a valuable resource for those interested in the men and women who were instrumental in making the world we live in today. This is a recommended purchase for reference collections."—American Reference Books Annual "...this one is recommended for high-school, public, and undergraduate libraries."—Booklist The significant role that the computer plays in the business world, schools, and homes speaks to the impact it has on our daily lives. While many people are familiar with the Internet, online shopping, and basic computer technology, the scientists who pioneered this digital age are generally less well-known. A to Z of Computer Scientists, Updated Edition features 136 computer pioneers and shows the ways in which these individuals developed their ideas, overcame technical and institutional challenges, collaborated with colleagues, and created products or institutions of lasting importance. The cutting-edge, contemporary entries explore a diverse group of inventors, scientists, entrepreneurs, and visionaries in the computer science field. People covered include: Grace Hopper (1906–1992) Dennis Ritchie (1941–2011) Brian Kernighan (1942–present) Howard Rheingold (1947–present) Bjarne Stroustrup (1950–present) Esther Dyson (1951–present) Silvio Micali (1954–present) Jeff Bezos (1964–present) Pierre Omidyar (1967–present) Jerry Yang (1968–present)
Author : J. Thorn
Publisher : Mullet Boy Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Generation X written by J. Thorn and published by Mullet Boy Books. This book was released on with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are the rock. We are the rebels. We are Gen X. In the vast chronicle of musical revolutions, where legends are often illuminated by stage lights, platinum records, and iconic riffs, Generation X stands amid the crescendo. Born in the twilight of vinyl and the dawn of digital, we’ve witnessed an era of unparalleled transformation in music, and with it, the evolving essence of rock and roll. But “Generation X: A Hidden History of Rock’s Defining Era (1969-2000)” speaks to the soul of the Gen Xer who knows deep down that the true spirit of rock isn’t captured solely by chart-toppers or arena tours. It’s the gritty clubs, the underground tapes, the rebel anthems that provided the soundtrack to our lives. It’s the unspoken bond between artist and audience, the shared moments of defiance, of love, of anguish. This isn’t just a history book—it’s a journey. A voyage through the pivotal moments that not only defined a genre but also a generation. Each chapter, a testament to the choices, the changes, and the characters that shaped the sound of an era. “Generation X: A Hidden History of Rock’s Defining Era” is a call to arms for Gen X. It’s time to reclaim our narrative, to immerse ourselves in the stories that soundtracked our journey from adolescence to adulthood. Fellow Gen Xers, this is your anthem. This is your history. Your legacy isn’t written in the records left behind but in the indelible marks that the music of our era has left on the world. Grab your copy now!
Author : Alexander Dolgin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 354079882X
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Economics of Symbolic Exchange written by Alexander Dolgin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-10-06 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Dolgin’s Economics of Symbolic Exchange is in reality not one but three books, and although these semantic layers are interlinked, the reader will need to choose between the different vectors and modalities. One clearly evident dimension is research. Certain authors introduce quite new intellectual approaches into scienti?c debate. This requires a special frame of mind and a searching curiosity about social reality. Carl Gustav Jung identi?ed a p- nomenon which he called systematic blindness: when a science reaches a stage of maturity and equilibrium, it categorically refuses, from a sense of self-preservation, to note certain facts and phenomena which it ?nds inconvenient. In Alexander D- gin’s book whole complexes of such “non-canonical” material are to be found. Here are just a few examples: ?le exchange networks, through which digital works of art are spread through the Internet; bargain sales of fashionable clothing; the paradox of equal pricing of cultural goods of varying quality; and a discussion of whether - tronage or business has the more productive in?uence on creativity. Obviously, not all the issues Volginraises are totally new, but brought togetherand examinedwithin an elegant logical framework of informational economics, they pose a challenge to scienti?c thinking. Such challenges are by no means immediately or, in some cases, ever acclaimed bythescienti?cestablishment. J. K. Galbraith,forexample,agreatAmericaneco- mist, whose works are read throughout the world, who introduced a whole range of crucially important concepts, the director of John F.
Author : John Logie
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 160235006X
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion written by John Logie and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2006-01-30 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Logie examines the rhetoric of the ongoing debate over peer-to-peer technologies, in particular Napster and its successors. The Grokster case, he contends, has already produced the chilling effects that will stifle the innovative spirit at the heart of the Internet and networked communities.
