Creating a Legal Alternative to the Illegal Networks

April 19, 2008

Exclusives are the common trade practice for most industries to help companies get a competitive advantage over others. AT&T and the iPhone, the Super Bowl on FOX, Madonna on Verizon, etc.
Now for the first two, the exclusives make sense. You can’t use an iPhone on Verizon and you can’t watch the Super Bowl on CBS, [...]

Twitter Updates for 2008-04-18

April 18, 2008

@jaanix Glad to see you like Grooveshark Lite, let us know any feedback you have ! http://listen.grooveshark.com/ #
@digsby Glad to see you like Grooveshark Lite, let us know any feedback you have ! http://listen.grooveshark.com/ #
@owenhurley Glad to see you like Grooveshark Lite, let us know any feedback you have ! http://listen.grooveshark.com/ #
@hackr Glad to see [...]

Twitter Updates for 2008-04-17

April 17, 2008

At the entrepreneur workshop at ced in Durham #
@wpcandy i’m glad you like the Grooveshark lite interface (http://listen.grooveshark.com/) let us know any feedback you have — #
@jayhanie @wpcandy i’m glad you like the Grooveshark lite interface (http://listen.grooveshark.com/) let us know any feedback you have — #
@alper i’m glad you like the Grooveshark lite interface (http://listen.grooveshark.com/) [...]

Twitter Updates for 2008-04-16

April 16, 2008

getting to bed before our trip to the CED in Durham North Carolina http://tinyurl.com/5uojms #
listen to any song in the world for free http://listen.grooveshark.com/ #
@iusebiro glad to see you like Grooveshark Lite, let me know if you have any questions: andrew.wise@grooveshark.com #
@dobata ts glad to see you like Grooveshark Lite, let me know if there [...]

Grooveshark: On Our Way to Durham, NC for CED in an RV

April 16, 2008

Yes, we are actually in an RV driving up i-95 to Durham, NC for the CED Venture Conference April 16-18.
We’re going to be presenting on Thursday at 2:30pm, so if you’re in the area, be sure to stop by and say hi:

By the way, if you haven’t yet, check out Grooveshark Lite and listen to [...]

Grooveshark: Grooveshark Lite is Coming, Please Be Patient

April 15, 2008

For those of you who haven’t heard yet (and by that I mean everyone who doesn’t work for this company), Grooveshark Lite is in the process of being migrated over to LIVE. The Grooveshark servers are down, so normally I would be posting this on the Grooveshark blog.

We’re having a couple of issues relating to [...]

Twitter Updates for 2008-04-14

April 14, 2008

gawker is pruning off 3 of its least performing blogs – http://tinyurl.com/68l2tu -reaction to the looming recession or just smart mgmt? #
song’s a jam — http://songza.com/z/ofj27b #

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Startup: Shawn Fanning of Napster Promotes Legal-Clean Diesel

April 14, 2008

I guess after starting Napster, and then selling SNOCAP to Imeem, this guy needs to find a new day-job:

Design: Inside-Out Staircase and Why We Love European Design

April 14, 2008

For those of you who don’t have an Ikea near you, you’re missing some desperately great furniture ..
For half the cost of typical European design, Ikea introduces the Swedish aesthetics into our homes apartments and makes us feel hipper than our neighbors still shopping at Rooms 2 Go.
From a post on Boing Boing, we find [...]

Gadget: Who Does Mobile Internet Devices Better ? Intel or Microsoft?

April 14, 2008

After watching the latest MID Video from Intel promoting their line of ultra-portable internet brick devices, I felt compelled to take a look back at the original Microsoft Origami video that promoted basically the same device (albeit not powered by Intel).
2 years later which video do you think is better?
Intel

Microsoft

Twitter Updates for 2008-04-11

April 11, 2008

doing the grooveshark walkthrough videos — who would have thought it’d be so hard?/ http://www.grooveshark.com #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-04-10

April 10, 2008

great example of how streaming helps promote purchase, go free streaming !: http://tinyurl.com/4awend #
from the colbert report last night, this dude wants to remove the penny from circulation, and that’s just like, "re-assassinating lincoln" #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-04-09

April 9, 2008

these weather changes from hot to cold are brutal on me, off to bed early #
free streaming actually promotes purchases (duh) but this time we have data from last.fm http://tinyurl.com/4awend #

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Grooveshark: Monetizing P2P Networks One Britney Spears Porn Song At a Time

April 9, 2008

The Grooveshark team, and when I say team, I mean development team, spent the past 48 hours laboring to put the finishing touches on File/Song.
File/Song is one of the serious pillars of the Grooveshark network. We took all of the trillions of different files that exist for a single song, and grouped them into an [...]

Twitter Updates for 2008-04-08

April 8, 2008

sweet PC setup http://www.13amp.org/pc/ #
lol, i finally clicked on those gayborhood ads on facebook (hey, who doesn’t like hot lesbians?) http://www.gayborhood.tv/ #

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Startup: Slacker Signs Deal With All 4 Major Labels (Publishers)

April 8, 2008

Slacker, despite the name, has taken every effort to gain licenses from all 4 major labels and has finally succeeded. Seeing that there are no downloads involved, the publishing sides of the major labels have agreed to go forward with the deal. Typically the publishing sides of the majors are a lot more likely to [...]