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Nine Inch Nails are probably one of the most important music groups in the world, currently, simply because they’re paving a new way of treating their fans and understanding how the internet works and how it can be used to your advantage.

After giving away (or selling at really cheap prices) several of their latest albums, they’ve continued to surprise fans with freebies. In a blog post on the official band web site, band leader Trent Reznor says that someone “somehow managed to film a substantial amount (over 400 GB!) of raw, unedited HD footage from three separate complete shows of our Lights in the Sky tour“, and provides a link to the footage. 

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Twitter resisted Facebook's overtures, in part because it questioned the valuation attached to Zuckerberg's social-networking site, which was based on the $240 million Microsoft paid for a 1.6 per cent stake in the company last year, when the stock market was riding high and the credit crunch was but a twinkle in Gordon Brown's eye.

But, perhaps more significantly, Twitter's founders also felt they had some unfinished business to attend to with the site; that its full potential as a communication platform – and a money-making enterprise – was yet to be realised.

Twitter has enjoyed an explosive rate of growth in the last year, with the registered number of users now topping six million, a 600 per cent increase in just 12 months.

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About a year ago ago we conducted the first U.S. study on product reviewers to understand who they are and what motivates them to write reviews. In that study we found that 90% of customers write reviews to ‘help others’.

This year we conducted similar research with Keller Fay in the UK. We found – believe it or not – similar results! We conducted a post-review intercept survey across several Bazaarvoice retail clients and found that Brits are driven by altruism when they write product reviews. We surveyed almost 3,800 Brits who wrote reviews on online e-commerce sites, and 94% of them said it was important to write reviews to help other consumers make good purchase decisions.

And their altruism doesn’t end with consumers; 82% of those surveyed said they wrote reviews to help companies make better decisions about the products they offer.

Also, most UK reviews are positive – 86% of UK reviewers said they left positive feedback online, and 11% said their comments were equally split between positive and negative. This reflects what we continue to find in the ratings J-Curve, which we discovered in 2006.

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Space Music  just sent over an announcement that they’ve signed a deal with IODA, an indie music label. The partnership promises to add over “one million new songs into MySpace Music’s growing indie catalogue.”

The IODA roster includes thousands of labels, including Arts & Crafts, Ace Records, Bonnier Amigo, Cherry Red Records, Cooking Vinyl, Demon Music Group, Fat Cat Records, Kanine Records, Light in the Attic, Paper Bag Records, Naïve, Premium Latin Music, Relapse, Rounder Records and Six Degrees.

The partnership is pretty significant since there remain very few other large established music distributors that MySpace lacks a partnership with at this point.

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Say it, Bloombla ok now that's out of the way what's the big deal?  Well Bloombla has become a bit of a buzz word traveling around the web for the past week.  Its a new social network that aims to connect the entire world together.  This is quite exciting and gives us all a feeling that social networks still have a bit of life left.

I'll give you all a quick run down of this exciting new service.  Basically its all quite simple, everything you've done in your life is called a Bloom.  Don't worry if you find yourself saying "that's something to bloom" later today, it also got me.  They ask everyone one questions "What have you done?" by answering this in their structured sentence they can start connecting you with other.

Each Bloom will then be added to your life and then create another layer where you can view others who have also "Done it!".  This layer reminds me of a wall of sorts for each Bloom where users are able to share their stories, experiences and interact with each other.

It seems like they've thought of everything.  You can easily import friend from Facebook and they will automatically be added to your friends list or invite friends to the service.  Your activity feed will give you updates of all your friends blooming activity and stories you've missed. We've contacted Bloombla and if you find this fun they have promised much more exciting things to come. Follow their blog.bloombla.com

 “Imagine being able to connect to individuals that you have never met but at some point in their lives they stood in the same room. This is something here at Bloombla we believe to be possible.“ said Anton Ygartua,  co-founder of Bloombla.

"Bloombla's designed and structured in a way that everything a user enters means something to us. With this information we are able to do many things beyond just connecting people." said Jamie Learmonth, co-founder of Bloombla. "We have a way of categorising all blooms entered into our system and provide an easy way of quickly adding them. In turn this gives us endless possibilities and we believe our timing is perfect."

So far they have had some amazing reviews from Mashable "Bloombla is an exceptional new service to try out" and Pocket-LInt "This is brand new and could really catch on... Bloomin' marvelous".

Bloombla's API will start its life on GeekNewz from today.

We love Blooming and we've decided to open our arms to Bloombla's API.  Every article will now feature a few Blooms related to the article for everyone to click on.

Bloombla is a privately funded venture by Boxlight Media Ltd .

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