Webnoize
www.webnoize.com
For one of the most comprehensive explorations of how the World Wide Web and the music industry thrive off each other, point your browser to Webnoize. An online publication simultaneously delivers news, information, and commentary on the state of music on the Web, as well as providing one of the best behind-the-scenes glimpses of the online music industry. Through both daily news updates and monthly feature-filled issues (the archives of which are only accessible to a subscriber), Webnoize investigates how the music industry's growth and direction have been shaped by emerging technologies. Other departments look at how the Internet covers the music business, taking into account financial, legal, technical, and cultural aspects. An efficient and streamlined design aids the digital magazine's delivery of information, as does a handy search engine.

LIVE ACT V2000
PC CD-ROM
MAGIX Entertainment Corp.
Those darn club kids will be bouncing off their bedroom walls at 400 beats per minute thanks to MAGIX's latest and totally engrossing music and video play tool. "Live Act," utilizing a built-in 128-track MIDI synthesizer, offers users a battery of virtual turntables, keyboards, and video-editing equipment through which they can create and manipulate various sounds and images in real time. Though "Live Act" includes 700 sounds and videos, the company has cleverly figured out another way to get kids' allowance money: additional music- and video-loop CD-ROMs that are sold separately. Artists such as Amsterdam's DJ Dimitri have compiled samples broken out by genre on some of these supplemental discs.