Website: BandPages on Facebook

Myspace’s last bastion of hope of being relevant may have just been crushed. Behold - Root Music. Musicians now have a home on Facebook.

This clever little San Francisco-based startup has created a way for musicians to share their stuff right from within Facebook. The BandPage is a tab just like your photos, info, or wall tabs. While they browse your page, fans can listen to your music from the embedded SoundCloud player. Want to place a banner on your page? Easy! Just upload the picture you want to use. No need to create a custom one. Every section of the BandPage is easily editable. Just drop, drag, and customize as you wish.

/via evolving music

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Mobile: Are We Entering the Age of Augmented Trademark Infringement?

App developers use augmented reality to deface British Petroleum’s logo in hopes of turning it against them. The legal ramifications (if any) should be interesting.

Consider a new application being developed in reaction to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The iPhone app - which is still in development - is called “the leak in your hometown,” and will let users augment any existing real-world British Petroleum (BP) logo with a virtually rendered oil pipe that is gushing with oil. 

“This repurposing of corporate icons will offer future artists and activists a powerful means of expression which will be easily accessible to the masses and at the same time will be safe and nondestructive,” they say.

/via RWW

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mangopopstar:

Hashtags in advertising! Google’s new Chrome ads feature the #google hashtag, and Land Rover receives a seemingly positive response for including it’s sponsored #LRNY hashtag to generate buzz around its vehicle release at the NY auto show.

It will be interesting to see how agencies try to tackle this and manage client’s sponsored hashtags with campaign driven budgets. Managing a presence on these platforms is a full-time job. Maybe that’s why I can’t seem to access content for #LRNY anymore?