Gaming music `cutting edge` (News Interactive)

LIVE music and Internet-based social networking sites YouTube and MySpace are helping break new music acts - but video games are the latest cool music space.

Music labels target MySpace sales (Digit Magazine)

A group of independent record labels behind artists such as The White Stripes and The Arctic Monkeys have joined to form Merlin, an agency that will sell music on sites such as MySpace, YouTube and the new advertising-funded SpiralFrog.

Silence and `scareware` epidemic at MySpace (The Register)

MyScare the Microsoft of Web 2.0? Comment MySpace`s immense popularity appears to have handed the social networking site an unwanted role as a clearinghouse for Web 2.0 naughties. The Register has uncovered a third dose of "scareware" trying to make its way onto users` machines for file infection. Beyond freaking out plenty of teenagers and excitable men, the software cruft has pushed ...