Top 5 Music Business 2.0 Blog Stories:

8/16/10 – 8/20/10

1. Re-Virb. A new and easier way for people to create their own personal website. Important for musicians and creating ways to market themselves independently. http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/16/virb-websitebuilder/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

2. Yahoo starts Bing transition, kills Search Monkey. http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20013871-265.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Webware&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+webware+%28Webware.com%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

3. More users are happier with Windows in 2010—76 percent—than in any previous survey period. If Microsoft can turn it around, anyone can. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_34/b4192086028904.htm

4. If Facebook Places catches on with the company’s 500 million users, Facebook could be sitting on a gold mine of local business listings that advertisers and users will love and Google will hate. http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20014162-265.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

5. Hot Potato, a New York-based startup that specializes in social activity updates, announced today that it has been acquired by Facebook for an undisclosed amount. The company will be shutting down operations within a month. http://mashable.com/2010/08/20/facebook-acquires-hotpotato/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

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