Startup: Grooveshark Direct Downloads Replace CDs

January 30, 2008

Part of our Grooveshark Labs, our team is developing Grooveshark Direct Download cards that are designed to eliminate the cost of printing and, even carrying CDs for the artists, and they allow artists to easily sell their music, and make a lot more money on each sale. A lot of people aren’t buying CDs any [...]

Startup: New Grooveshark Tshirt Designs, Holler at Us

January 30, 2008

We have a new mockup for Grooveshark tshirts, more of a minimalistic design. The key “features” of this shirt, if you will, are the huge lettering of the website and a mention of music. I particularly like the fin on the back of the shirt, but being really cheap, I hate spending money to just [...]

Lost Season 3 Premiere Tomorrow, January 31

January 30, 2008

Lost Season 3 Premiere is tomorrow night, January 31. For those of you who have never actually watched the show, I don’t suggest you watch the episode tomorrow night. Rather, I suggest you pickup Seasons 1 and 2 from Amazon, and then proceed to pick back up on these amazing Season 3 episodes. I personally [...]

Gadget: Everex CloudBook Delayed, AGAIN !

January 30, 2008

For those of you waiting for the savior to the Asus EEE, you need to keep waiting. The Cloudbook was originally promised early January, then that date became January 25th, then Feebruuary 5th, then February 25th? Get it together folks — hopefully these delays mean the device will be flawless when it ships. The EEE [...]

Gadget: Move Over Macbook Air, Welcome to the Napkin PC

January 30, 2008

Avery Holleman has designed the first Macbook Air-wannabe, the Napkin PC. It’s really an amazing concept, and it’s not that far off, at least the tablet portion of it. Given the diminutive size of the Macbook Air, a device like this finally seems possible. For more information, hit the link: http://www.designsojourn.com/2008/01/26/…

LastMinute-Auction.com is the 2nd Best Thing You Can Do in a Minute

January 30, 2008

If you’re looking to kill a minute, why not head over to Last Minute Auction and bid on some items about to end on eBay. They pull in all the listings from eBay that are less than $1 and going to end in an hour or less. After searching around, I was able to snag [...]

Startup: Twitter and Pownce Are Wooing Developers, Grooveshark is Next

January 30, 2008

Twitter and Pownce seem to have the development crowd in the bag, complete with the Twitter API and now Pownce API. Grooveshark is finally getting to the stage that we can start branching outwards and start catering to our development crowd. For more, check out the original article from ParisLemon: Twitter and Pownce Wooing The [...]

Twitter Updates for 2008-01-29

January 29, 2008

just checking out qtrax, the "competition" # amazon has the nokia n95 Silver for $499, no tax http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000W9XQ1Y/ref=nosim/?tag=fatwalletcom&linkCode=as1 # ugh, twitter is slowww tonight, that’s it for me # grooveshark is featured on standoutjobs http://grooveshark.standoutjobs.com/ # just putting the finishing touches on a qtrax story from the grooveshark blog # having label relations meeting # [...]

Startup: Qtrax’s Legal Music Download Claims Put Qtrax on Thin Ice

January 29, 2008

Taken from Grooveshark: Qtrax claimed to be the first legal music download site to offer free streaming and free downloads. Qtrax plans to pay labels 50% of advertising revenues to cover the cost of the free music downloads and free streaming. Qtrax, which is built on the Songbird platform, crawled through the Gnutella p2p network [...]

Startup: Help Grooveshark Craft Their Message

January 29, 2008

Our startup, Grooveshark, is currently undergoing a makeover of sorts. Right now the introduction to Grooveshark is “an online music sharing community that rewards you for sharing, reviewing, and discovering new music. Unfortunately, that is not very clear, and might be construed as confusing. As a result, we’re trying to simplify this message and explain [...]