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Amazon wants to turn your radio DJ dreams into a reality with its new Amp app.Still in beta, the platform invites folks to "create live, shared radio shows with the music they love. For free." It may remind you of Clubhouse, but Amazon's version adds a music library "stacked" with licensed songs. All you need is the Amp app, an iPhone, and an entry code.Currently invite-only, the app is accessible by downloading Amp from the Apple App Store and joining the waitlist, subscribing to the Amp Newsletter, or following @OnAmp_."Radio has always been about music and culture," Amp VP John Ciancutti said in a statement. "But imagine if you were inventing the medium for the first time today. You'd make it so anybody with a phone, a voice, and a love for music could make their own show. And that's exactly what we're doing. Amp makes it possible for you to grab the mic and run the airwaves.  » Read More

PHOTO: wachiwit B2B marketers often hold back from joining the latest hot trend on social media. They want to see if that new feature or platform receiving buzz is worth adding to their portfolio of tools. If you are among that cautious skeptical group of marketers, you should consider the buzz regarding Replay, the new record feature on the live audio chat app Clubhouse. It's the the real deal. Clubhouse Replay offers B2B marketers an intriguing mix of benefits that can strengthen engagement of potential customers as they turn to social media and podcasts to learn about products and services.  How Replay Makes Clubhouse More Convenient A Clubhouse room conveniently allows people to gather for a discussion; useful for people who are part of a strong networking community. Until now, Clubhouse app users only had the choice to join the conversation in real-time to hear and respond to the comments. Fleeting in nature, it's also what makes live audio appealing, like a short video in TikTok. Enter Replay.  » Read More

Published March 7, 2022 at 4:02 PM CST Austin officials are welcoming back South by Southwest attendees this week for the first time in three years. The 2020 event was canceled days before the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Two years later, a lot more is known about the virus. There are vaccines and conditions are improving in Travis County.Austin dropped from Stage 5 COVID threat to Stage 2 in just eight days. And as those indicators have improved, so have badge sales for South by Southwest, as fear of missing out on the first in-person conference in three years creeps in.“We will anticipate continuing to see more badge sales and some of our biggest sales are actually our walk-up sales,” said Tami Richter, vice president of event operations for SXSW. “We are looking forward to almost a normal little hustle and bustle here in Austin for South by Southwest.”The festival is still planning to enforce COVID policies it set several months ago.  » Read More

Advocate Vishal Bhanushali, appearing for the accused, contested the case and said his client was not involved in the alleged crime. (Reuters)The victim did not support the prosecution story. Another material witness, who noticed the victim's injuries, also did not support the prosecution story, the judge noted.PTI MumbaiLast Updated:March 06, 2022, 12:54 ISTFOLLOW US ON:A court here in Maharashtra has acquitted a 47-year-old superintendent of a school for hearing and speech-impaired children in the case of alleged sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl in 2017, while giving him the benefit of doubt. The order was passed on February 21 and a copy of it was made available on Saturday.In her order, Additional Sessions Judge and Special Judge (for POCSO cases) Kavita D Shirbhate noted that the prosecution failed to prove the charges against the accused.Special Public Prosecutor S B More told the court that the accused sexually assaulted the Class 4 student in January 2017.  » Read More

Two years into the pandemic, the meteoric growth of platforms that connect people online is petering out. Not long ago, the appetite for spending time in new digital spaces seemed limitless. Tech companies that offered ways to gather virtually found that users were willing to try almost anything. That's no longer the case. From Zoom to Roblox, Clubhouse to Peloton, new users are increasingly hard to come by. For our purposes, let's call these pandemic platforms. Since March 2020, these popular services have ushered in a wave of game-changing experimentation that has laid the groundwork for tomorrow's digital society. Along the way, entrepreneurs and tech executives have learned what people love–and hate–about living online. "Crisis does catalyze change," New York University professor Arun Sundararajan told me. The gig economy was born in part out of necessity following the financial crisis. That shock gave companies like Uber and Airbnb a supply of crowd-sourced labor and capital at a time when consumers were willing to try new kinds of experiences that saved them money,  » Read More

Trainer John Shirreffs is notorious for sneaking away after a big win and putting all the attention on everyone else connected to the horse. But Saturday was different. It took modest prodding, but there he was in the winner’s circle with Express Train after winning his first Santa Anita Handicap.“Oh, yeah, this is the Santa Anita Handicap,” Shirreffs said. “You don’t have to ask me twice. … I’m really over the top about it. I’ve been it a few times and never won. Seabiscuit won this race. It’s one of those icon races.”Seabiscuit won in 1940 by about two lengths. It wasn’t so easy for Express Train, who looked as if he had the race won down the stretch but a game Warrant kept coming back on the 5-year-old horse. In the final strides, Express Train got just enough in front to win the Grade 1 $650,000 race by a head.“Yeah, I was nervous ,” said the 76-year-old Shirreffs, who has been a trainer for more than four decades.  » Read More

There's beef in the Slaughterhouse. Eminem's former rap supergroup, consisting of Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz, Royce 5'9" and Kxng Crooked, are currently at odds after Joell and Crooked announced a new album titled The Rise and Fall of Slaughterhouse sans the other two members. Things recently got heated during a Instagram Live meeting where Joe and Joell exchanged some harsh words.On Friday (March 4), Joe, Joell and Royce hopped on IG to talk about the project Joell and Crooked announced last week, as well as the single they released called "Backstage," which addresses the group's time together. Things went left."Y'all not serious, dawg," Joell says at one point. "Y'all out here running around with some wild ass narrative, lying about me and like we went and took a bag. Y'all got people out here saying we doing things for a bag. I never done nothing for a bag. Y'all know me better than that. If anybody spinning the narrative,  » Read More

Fashion blogging is an excellent way to showcase your taste and fashion sense. It’s also a way for you to further your career in the industry and become a brand ambassador or fashion consultant. The key to getting started with a successful blog is having a loyal following who will eagerly wait for your new posts each week. To attract a following, it helps to have a professional-looking site with actual content on it! Below are six tips to help build the foundations for your new fashion blog. 1. Define Your Fashion Niche While it may sound like a glamorous job, starting a fashion blog takes hard work. You don’t just wake up one morning and start putting outfits together. The first step to creating a successful fashion blog is settling down on a fashion niche. The fashion industry might already sound niche, but it's composed of dozens of smaller niches—each based around a different style. As you learn how to start a fashion blog, your initial goal should be to identify and narrow the focus of your target audience.  » Read More

A MARTINEZ, HOST:Fans of Japanese animation are closer to one-stop watching this week.LEILA FADEL, HOST:The anime streaming service Funimation announced that more than 1,600 hours of its exclusive content will start rolling over to sister site Crunchyroll. So what does that all mean? Instead of subscribing to two one-time competitors, anime fans will only need one.(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "DRAGON BALL Z")SEAN SCHEMMEL AND CHRISTOPHER SABAT: (As Goku and Vegeta) Fusion, ha.MARTINEZ: Sony's billion-dollar purchase of Crunchyroll last year brought the two services together under one roof. And the pipeline of brand-new shows coming to Funimation will start drying up next month. So their subscribers are being nudged to switch to the slightly pricier alternative.FADEL: For now, Crunchyroll says subscription prices, ranging from eight to $15 a month, won't increase, even with its beefed-up buffet of content. And while this means less competition for anime, it could actually make Crunchyroll a stronger competitor against more mainstream services, like Hulu and Netflix.  » Read More

In the prologue to The Believer: Encounters with the Beginning, The End, and Our Place in the Middle, Sarah Krasnostein tells us that what drove her to pursue the six profiles that follow was a need "to understand them, these people I found unfathomable, holding fast to faith in ideas that went against the grain of more accepted realities. It may be accurate to say that I needed to get closer to something, someone, that felt very far away." The distance between Krasnostein, a journalist with a PhD in criminal law who identifies as fitting in "a secular humanist Jewish basket," and her subjects — a Buddhist death doula, a group of ghost-hunting paranormalists, "PhD scientists" on staff at the Creation Museum (which promotes a literal interpretation of Genesis), a woman who served half her life in prison for her abusive husband's murder, the fiancé of a disappeared pilot and the ufologists who claim to know what happened to him, and a Mennonite mission in the Bronx — initially seems vast, as do the distances among the subjects.  » Read More