Basketball Madness Reaches New Heights With Music Dealers' Enhanced Music Tech Platform

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Chicago, IL (PRWEB) March 20, 2013

Global music tech company, Music Dealers, announced today the launch of The Music Dealers Discovery Tool version 3.0, further revolutionizing the methods by which content creators search for, discover and license music to enhance their creative projects.

The Discovery Tool was first used by CBS, one of Music Dealers’ partners, for the big game broadcast in New Orleans this past February. The music tech platform allows the sports network to cut licensed music on-site from some of the best emerging musicians in the region. CBS will also utilize the company’s platform for the upcoming popular NCAA basketball tournament.

CBS relies on Music Dealers to equip their team with The Discovery Tool’s intuitive, reliable platform that gives network producers and editors real-time, universal access to authentic tracks when making live, on-site edits during their highest viewed broadcasts like the big game and NCAA basketball tournament.

“By providing premium quality music from breakout indie talent representing the sounds and genres most appealing to CBS’s core demographics, Music Dealers helps the network consistently deliver highly personalized viewing experiences and cultivate rich, meaningful connections with its audience,” said Music Dealers CEO and co-founder, Eric Sheinkop.

The company’s proprietary music tech platform, The Discovery Tool, is the gateway through which content creators can access the company’s global artist community, comprised of over 20,000 of the most highly sought-after emerging musicians in over 70 countries around the world.

The Discovery Tool’s latest enhancements empower Music Dealers clients in the advertising, TV, sports, film and gaming industries as well as its brand partners like The Coca-Cola Company, to source music from the world’s largest emerging music-licensing database using the most accurate and efficient music technology tool kit available in today’s marketplace. Through the Discovery Tool’s new “Location” search filter and revamped artist profiles that now feature robust artist demographic information, Music Dealers’ global brand and entertainment partners are driving additional value for their worldwide campaigns by localizing music for audiences of specific markets.

“Nothing brings people together like music and sports,” said Sheinkop. “Our Discovery Tool platform represents disruptive technology at its best and for the first time you can search the world’s highest quality emerging artists all available and pre-cleared by way of the largest searchable database. This platform was built to streamline the music discovery process, enhance creative projects for our partners and deepen audience connections, while providing the world’s best indie artists with the funding, exposure and distribution necessary to propel their careers to the next level.”

To highlight the New Indie Players Sparking Madness in the upcoming NCAA basketball tournament, Music Dealers sifted through thousands of artists to compile some of the most current sounds about to hit the market today. The following link showcases artists from the Midwest, South, East and West regions whose music you will hear over coming weeks as college basketball stars dribble, pass and shoot their way to NCAA championship gold: http://j.mp/14aF8dt.

In the spirit of competition, Music Dealers (@MusicDealers) is encouraging sports and music fans to tweet their favorite artist name from their ‘Indie Players Spark Madness’ playlists, and tag their tweet with #TheGreatUnsigned. Every tweet enters fans into a drawing for the chance to win a Great Unsigned swag pack and all access passes to their favorite artist’s next show in their city. Three lucky winners will be randomly selected and announced the morning of the NCAA championship game on April 8th.

Music Dealers offers content creators free access to The Discovery Tool and never charges artists for inclusion in the Music Dealers licensing catalog. Music-seekers can instantly take advantage of The Discovery Tool’s enhanced features by signing up for a Music Dealers Want Music account. Artists who would like their music considered for future music licensing opportunities can create a Music Dealers Artist Profile and submit their music for review of acceptance in just a few easy steps.

About Music Dealers

Music Dealers™ is a global music technology company that provides clients in the advertising, television, film and gaming industries with the highest quality emerging music to enhance their work. Powered by a global artist community of the world’s top breakout artists, Music Dealers crowd-sources existing and original music, procures brand partnerships, live performances and offers the largest emerging artist music-licensing database in the world. In 2011, Music Dealers cemented a groundbreaking partnership with The Coca-Cola Company, which secured Music Dealers’ position as the organization’s exclusive global music partner and earned Coca-Cola a minority stake in the company. Music Dealers is based in Chicago, with offices in Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, London and Mexico City. For more info, please visit: http://www.musicdealers.com.

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Morse Data to Introduce Latest Version of InOrder ERP Software at IRCE 2013

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Dover, NH (PRWEB) March 21, 2013

Morse Data Corporation, developers of InOrder Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, is exhibiting at Internet Retailer, one of the largest e-commerce conferences, June 4- 7, 2013, McCormick Place, Chicago, IL. The company will demonstrate its significantly enhanced real-time Web shopping cart for Internet retailers and multi-channel merchants.

The new version of InOrder includes major upgrades to the shopping cart, including a Cross-sell / Related Items capability that allows users to attach multiple “suggested items” to specific SKUs, a Ratings and Review capability that’s tightly integrated to the back-end ERP customer service and marketing modules, and Multiple Item Personalization, which gives InOrder users’ customers the ability to customize personalization of items – either individually, by group or by individual items in a group.

“We’re very excited about exhibiting at IRCE and about the upgrades to InOrder, especially since the new software version offers an instance of Big Data ‘crowd sourcing’ through the integrated Ratings and Reviews enhancement,” says Tony Marchese, VP of Morse Data. “More and more mid-sized and large Internet-based companies are realizing that InOrder has been developed specifically to manage their inventory and sales in real time – a capability that many of the ‘Big ERP’ software suites lack. The added benefit of doing business with Morse Data is our customer service. Customers are often shocked to hear we answer our own phones and that our support techs know customers’ names. We encourage IRCE attendees to call or email us and schedule a demo at the InOrder booth #628 during the show or through our Website if they can’t attend.”

In addition to giving demonstrations of its ERP software, Morse Data will be handing out the latest version of its rubber ducks, which have become collectors’ items.

About Morse Data Corporation

In business since 1975 and headquartered in Dover, NH with technical offices in Orland Park, IL, Morse Data Corporation offers InOrder, a real-time, tightly integrated, single database ERP system for multi-channel merchants, Internet retailers, publishers, and fulfillment solutions providers. The company is a certified Microsoft Small Business Specialist. To schedule a demonstration, call 888-667-7332 or visit http://www.getinorder.com.







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New March Releases from God of War and Tomb Raider Series Unable to Knock BioShock from the #1 Spot on List of Most Compelling Video Game Storylines

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Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) March 21, 2013

Bioshock currently sits atop Ranker’s “Most Compelling Video Game Storylines” list with a comfortable lead over closest competitor, Half-Life. What’s interesting is that both games have been out for over 5 years. (Half-Life will be celebrating it’s 15th anniversary this year.) As of March 2013, the crowd-sourced list has been voted on by over 1000 people at consumer opinions website Ranker.com, and includes other popular video game franchises like Mass Effect, Fallout, and Final Fantasy.

The rest of the Top 10 Video Game Storylines are as follows:

1) Bioshock

2) Half-Life

3) Mass Effect 2

4) Mass Effect

5) Half-Life 2

6) Fallout 3

7) Portal

8) Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

9) Heavy Rain

10) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

When asked why Bioshock would be number one on the list after all this time Dan Casey, Associate Editor at Nerdist.com, had this to say: “What sets Bioshock’s narrative apart from the pack isn’t just its memorable setting or those terrifying moments when the lights go out and all you can hear is the skittering of Splicers [the villains in the game]; it’s the burden of morality which it forces the player to shoulder, and for that alone, it is a game worth experiencing.”

See the full list of Compelling Video Game Storylines, as well as 1000s of other Video Games lists at Ranker.com.

Ranker.com is the premier crowd-sourced platform for consumer rankings. Consumers visit Ranker.com more than seven million times a month to view, rank and vote on broad, opinion-based questions across a wide range of topics including food, sports, travel, entertainment, cars and many others. The Ranker.com results are pure, unbiased and based on semantic algorithms that assign values based on mean numbers and ranker behavior. For more information, visit Ranker.com.







Mickey Rourke Top Ranker's March Rankings of the Celebrities Who Have Aged the Worst

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Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) March 22, 2013

Mickey Rourke recently rose to the top of the Ranker’s “Celebrities Who Have Aged the Worst” list, a crowd-sourced list on the consumer opinions website, Ranker.com. Rourke barely beat out former action star Val Kilmer (#2) for male celebrity who has aged the worst, while the first female celebrity, Bridgette Bardot, comes in at number 5.

The rest of the Top 10 Celebrities Who Look Worse for Wear is as follows:

1) Mickey Rourke

2) Val Kilmer

3) Keith Richards

4) Bruce Jenner

5) Brigette Bardot

6) Nick Nolte

7) Pamela Anderson

8) Marlon Brando

9) Courtney Love

10) Ozzy Osbourne

Celebrity blogger Danielle Dauenhauer was surprised at the celebrities in the Top 10 noting that “Steven Seagal looks like a regurgitated version of his former self and he’s not even in the Top 20”. Asked if she agreed with the rest of the rankings, Dauenhauer said “I would have had Val Kilmer in the top spot”.

See the full list of Celebrities Who Have Aged the Worst, as well as 1000’s of other Celebrity Lists at Ranker.com.

Ranker.com is the premier crowd-sourced platform for consumer rankings. Consumers visit Ranker.com more than seven million times a month to view, rank and vote on broad, opinion-based questions across a wide range of topics including food, sports, travel, entertainment, cars and many others. The Ranker.com results are pure, unbiased and based on semantic algorithms that assign values based on mean numbers and ranker behavior. For more information, visit Ranker.com.







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Quotes regarding Changes in Life

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Today we would like to discuss a number of great quotes about change for better. We all think that adjustment is the best thing in all the entire world. At times, we may be petrified of transformations, possibly even the very good improvements. The fear of all of the unidentified also is all natural, however human beings could handle this concern. That is what makes us humankind. To change will mean to mature. To adjust usually means to make success. To adjust will mean to try to make your lifetime better. Change will make you much stronger. Transformation could make you cleverer. Transformation will certainly enable you to discover yoiur own personality.

* You may quit being scared of existence, when you get to understand that life. To successfully understand living, you will need to avoid being afraid of this reality.

~ Fear and anxiety is actually the counterpoint of belief.

> Fear will be your greatest adversary. It’s going to force you to lose best friends. It’ll lead you to become your own personal opponent.

– There are actually quite a few possibilities. In some cases, a person assume there may be not any other path, but there definitely is. There are certainly usually a minimum of a couple of solutions. Unfortunately we’re way too concerned not to mention afraid of what really is going down and then we are not able to see anything at all.

— If you happen to think that some things are different, this doesn’t consequently indicate they may have altered. Perhaps you have.

~ Superior administrators usually will have plan A, strategy B as well as approach C. Each of those schemes is certainly created in such way in which the idea could possibly be modified.

> Thinking that anyone will not ever alter is certainly absolutely wrong. Believing that there’s no need at all to change is certainly destructive.

— To be aware about adjustment is the initial step in the direction of making any modification.

~ A program which could not be improved is not really a great method.

— Not one thing is as terrible like person who won’t evolve. This sort of conduct is nearly fatal. When you’re living in the past years, it is actually like you’re not living even the least bit.

– To be steady does not rule out improvements. Being stubborn will – however , resistance usually accompanies silliness.

: If you’ve got trust in yourself, you’re going to tolerate changes very easily. You probably will not worry of exactly who you would possibly change into.

> Not all changes end up in progress. Nevertheless progress is unreachable without transformations.

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A revolutionary new, low-cost way for print entrepreneurs to sell design online

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Manchester, United Kingdom (PRWEB UK) 24 March 2013

A new service for print entrepreneurs was launched today in 12 countries and 9 languages. The TemplateCloud API allows online print shops and entrepreneurs to add thousands of designer templates to their existing website without requiring heavy investment.

Printers choose which designs to sell from a library of over 10,000 designs across a range of printed items like business cards, flyers, brochures and invitations. By embedding the TemplateCloud advanced editor into the printer’s website, their clients can personalise the design, upload photos or browse 14 million free images. Designs are available in English, French, Dutch, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Swedish, Italian and American English.

When a client checks out from the printer’s website, the TemplateCloud API makes a print-ready PDF automatically for the printer’s own presses or to send to a supplier, streamlining the whole process.

All TemplateCloud designs are crowd-sourced from a community of real designers. Designers use Adobe InDesign to build a template ­and no plugins are required. Graphic designers upload their finished design to TemplateCloud.com, where an automatic process converts this into an online editable template in minutes. Designs that sell best have industry-specific marketing copy and striking images, so designers are encouraged to invest time in each piece.

Chief Technology Officer of TemplateCloud, Peter Gunning, said “TemplateCloud isn’t like other design contests where businesses upload a brief, hundreds of designers enter their designs and only one designer wins. TemplateCloud is different. Our mantra is… design once, sell many. Each time a designer’s template is sold, anywhere in the world, we pay the designer a royalty – ­even if we translate it into a different language. Some of our top designers have already earned more than £5,000.”

Following an extensive private beta, TemplateCloud have today opened their API to general availability and are inviting print site owners and entrepreneurs who want to add online design capabilities to their site to register for developer documentation at http://www.templatecloud.com/developer

Designs are already being sold on print websites every day, including http://www.drukland.nl in The Netherlands, http://www.needaprint.ie in Ireland, http://www.flyerzone.co.uk in the United Kingdom and http://www.printing.com/fr in France.

TemplateCloud are also now accepting submissions from designers in the United Kingdom, Republic Of Ireland, France, Germany, Spain, Netherlands, New Zealand, Australia and the USA. Designers in Sweden, Italy and Portugal will be able to upload their designs from April. Gavin Cockerill, MD of TemplateCloud, said “A designer from Ireland can upload their design to the cloud and have it translated into French or Dutch automatically and be selling in a country they¹ve never visited, and in a language they don’t speak.”

Packages start at just £695 up front and minimum of £99/month.

Funding may also be available for budding entrepreneurs. TemplateCloud’s parent company, printing.com plc is a Delivery Partner for the UK Government¹s Start-Up Loan scheme. Entrepreneurs aged between 18-30 who live and work in England, could get a loan of up to £10,000 to help kick start their business. Find out more.







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BLOGGERS.COM, Global Bloggers Blog Community Site and Domain name goes up For Sale by Owner

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New York, New York (PRWEB) March 25, 2013

Today at the general meeting BLOGGERS intended to sell its stake to the market. Established in 2003, Bloggers.com is the leading social network site for Bloggers and largest directory of blogs. The site has pumped through some great numbers, It it added half million new Bloggers and 5 Million new pages indexed by Google in one and half year, and also achieved Google page rank 6/10. Despite huge database Bloggers.com loads in only 1.1 second which is faster than 64% of other sites.

Commented by Park Ik, the Founder and CEO of BLOGGERS : ” The domain name Bloggers.com is itself selfmarketing and easy to remember. Bloggers.com domain creates an instant brand which is defensible against copyrights. This is one reason Bloggers.com had good organic traffic from the day one. In last couple of years The site has 300% growth of visitors. On January 15, we have launched our site considering increasing visitors from mobile platform”

“Also, my team built the site with proprietary scalable architecture, dedicated hosting system, and crowd sourced online rating technology. BLOGGERS targets genuine bloggers and true content. Bloggers has realtime crawler that continuously search through registered Blogs around 130 countries in the world. As we see the site has grown in right direction its growth is exceeding our capacity and need more funds and human resource. We are looking for investors who can nurture the project to its deserved level” Park Ik added.

Interested parties can find more information in the following link: http://bloggers.com/bloggers-partnership







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Girl Talk Embellishments Encourage FPgirls to Live Out Loud

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Beverly, MA (PRWEB) March 26, 2013

FPgirl by FashionPlaytes (http://www.fashionplaytes.com), the first girl-driven fashion and style destination, announced today their new line of clothing embellishments inspired by the way girls communicate in their everyday lives. The “Girl Talk” collection features inspirational messages, today’s lingo and new BFF add-ons in bold patterns exclusively relevant to today’s Generation Z girls. Exciting colors and eye-catching rhinestones allow girls to express their personality with style.

An outfit is not complete without making it one-of-a-kind, and the new Girl Talk embellishments allow just that. With catchy phrases, sparkly detailing and metallic exclamation points, FPgirl provides a fun and fashionable way for girls to express themselves and show off their unique style.

A sample of the new line of embellishments includes:

    OMG ;)
    LOL
    BFF
    Live, Love, Dance
    <3

The Girl Talk line is inspired by FPgirl’s user community of more than 600,000 girls who are not only customizing their own clothing, but are also learning about the fashion design process, expressing themselves with colors and prints, and engaging with other tweens about style, a subject they love. At FPgirl, we’ve seen that giving girls this power helps them build confidence in their choices and social capital among peers. Girls interact with the site and with each other by asking questions and responding to those asked by other members of the community, participating in polls, commenting on style posts and entering design contests. It’s a positive, empowering experience.

The buzz around this new line has taken over the FPgirl Style Mag, where FPgirls are using the words and phrases showcased in the Girl Talk line to share their thoughts on everything from new trends (Are Chucks in or out?) to their top celebrity style icons (What celeb would you totally want to be friends with?).

“FPgirl is excited to introduce these fun-loving embellishments,” said Sarah McIlroy, founder and CEO of FashionPlaytes.com. “We are constantly looking for ways to encourage creativity and involve our FPgirls in the design process. By using their lingo and pop culture as an inspiration, our Girl Talk line of embellishments allows girls to design one-of-a-kind outfits that really let their unique style shine through.”

The full Girl Talk line can be added to designs at FPgirl.com.

About FashionPlaytes and FPgirl:

FashionPlaytes is the creator of FPgirl.com, the online fashion and style destination where girls are designers and set the trends. The FPgirl community is filled with vibrant, talented, and supportive girls who create cool custom clothing, crowd-source designs, and share their insights about what it’s like to be a girl in today’s world. FashionPlaytes celebrates all girls, providing a fun, safe, interactive environment. Its engagement-driven ecommerce platform is fueled by girls, for girls, making it the go-to place for all things fashion related.







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Minted Introduces Letterpress Wedding Stationery

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San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) March 27, 2013

Minted, the e-commerce site and global community of independent designers, today launched a range of luxurious new printing options for its wedding customers. Minted’s unique, indie designs are now available letterpressed and also on a paper the company is calling “Museum Board”, an unbendable paper made from fusing three sheets of paper together.

“Minted is responding to couples asking us to deliver our indie-sourced design on new, luxurious paper and with expanded printing options,” said Minted Founder and CEO Mariam Naficy. “Minted’s Perfection Team won’t rest until we have helped each couple realize their unique wedding vision.”

New Letterpress Wedding Invitations:

Couples may customize Minted’s community-sourced designs with extensive choices: 25 fonts, two thick 100% cotton paper options – 190 lb and 120 lb – and up to three-color printing. All letterpress wedding invitation suites are expertly printed with a crisp, deep impression on vintage Heidelberg Windmill presses. Letterpress wedding invitations start at $ 4.85 per invitation for a set of 100. Matching letterpressed invitation accessories, such as RSVP cards, reception and direction cards, and thank-you cards, start at $ 3.15 per card.

New Luxe Museum Board Paper:

Luxe Museum Board is a luxurious, unbendable new paper option for Minted’s flat-printed designs. At a hefty 360 pounds and 54 caliper points, Luxe Musuem Board is three times as thick as Minted’s already luxe Signature Paper. All of Minted’s wedding designs, including optional two-sided printing, are available today. Luxe Museum Board invitations start at $ 3.95 for 100.

Minted’s letterpress collection is now available at: http://www.minted.com/letterpress-wedding-invitations

About Minted

Minted is a design community and e-commerce site, crowd-sourcing graphic designs and art from a global artist community and selling those as premium printed products focused on the $ 10 billion stationery market, the $ 48 billion wall art market, and the $ 7 billion party decor market. Investors include Benchmark Capital, Menlo Ventures, IDG Ventures SF, Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer, Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman.

All designs featured on Minted are sourced through design competitions and curated by the community. The company holds ongoing competitions, giving all independent designers and artists around the world the opportunity to submit their work. The public votes on the submissions and the winning designs are sold on Minted’s website. Artists earn cash prizes and commissions on their sales.

Since its launch in 2008, Minted has radically transformed what consumers expect in wedding stationery, birth announcements, holiday cards, party decor, and art prints. Minted’s fresh, unique designs have been featured on The Today Show and The Early Show, and in The Wall Street Journal, Real Simple, InStyle, Woman’s Day, Martha Stewart Living, Brides, The Knot, Town & Country Weddings, and many other national magazines.







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Tyrion Lanister Tops the List of Best Game of Thrones Characters as Season 3 Nears Its Premiere

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Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) March 27, 2013

Tyrion Lanister currently sits atop Ranker’s list of the “Best Game of Thrones Characters” with a narrow lead over Arya Stark. After two seasons, Tyrion (played by Emmy winner Peter Dinklage) is as debauched and oversexed as ever, but has shown unparalleled bravery in the face of his adversaries and is the only member of his family to crack the Top 10, most of whose spots belong to members of the House Stark. As of March 2013, just days before Game of Throne’s season 3 premiere, the crowd-sourced list has been voted on by over 600 people at consumer opinions website Ranker.com, and includes all of the series main characters for fans to vote on.

The rest of the Top 5 characters are as follows:

1) Tyrion Lanister

2) Arya Stark

3) Eddard Stark

4) Daenerys Targaryen

5) Jon Snow

“There’s nothing too surprising about the top 10 here in my opinion. Tyrion is the reigning King of Awesome and Arya should be sitting in chairs backwards, she’s got so much AC Slater cool in her.” said Joe Star, comedian and creator of the comedy show “Pre-Game of Thrones”, “and everyone loves mysterious dudes, so everyone loves Jaqen. Jamie should be ranked over Jorah, but I’m sure time and story will resolve that little error.”

See the full list of Favorite Game of Thrones Characters, as well as 1000s of other Television lists at Ranker.com.

Ranker.com is the premier crowd-sourced platform for consumer rankings. Consumers visit Ranker.com more than seven million times a month to view, rank and vote on broad, opinion-based questions across a wide range of topics including food, sports, travel, entertainment, cars and many others. The Ranker.com results are pure, unbiased and based on semantic algorithms that assign values based on mean numbers and ranker behavior. For more information, visit Ranker.com.