Ikea Summer Sale This Weekend 20%-60% Off, June 19 & 20

June 18, 2008

I don’t know about you, but I take every opportunity I get to take part in even walking around an Ikea store, let alone getting to purchase merchandise on sale! This sale begins tomorrow, Thursday and ends on Friday. For me, who is going to be driving down Friday night, wish me luck ayee, here’s [...]

Full Collection of Rob Thomas & Grooveshark Pictures

June 18, 2008

Wanted to put up a followup post showcasing the additional pictures from Rob’s visit (I hope I’m not rubbing it in the AmieStreet folks faces) — just kidding.
Anyway, here are the rest of pictures taken courtesy of Ben’s iPhone and Flickr stream:

Best Online Directories To Buy and Sell Your Website

June 18, 2008

Looking to buy a website or web domain? Perhaps you’re looking to sell your current website.. Either way, you need to know the best places to buy and sell your website.
There are a number of directories, forums, and marketplaces that allow webmasters and business consumers purchase and bid on web properties. Some of these forums [...]

Grooveshark Demo'ed in Fluid SSB Screencast

June 18, 2008

Grooveshark seems to be a perfect fit for Fluid, the site-specific browser windows that let you isolate any webpage into a separate window thus avoiding those oh shit! moments when you lose all of your un-saved data.
The guys over at the Fluid blog put together a really cool screencast showcasing Grooveshark as an SSB, check [...]

Rob Thomas Made An Appearance in the Grooveshark Office, In Other News..

June 17, 2008

So I guess this whole Grooveshark thing is starting to pan out, eh? Well, Rob Thomas felt it necessary to stop by Gainesville on his way to Jacksonville today, and got the obligatory tour, complete with mention of ping-pong room, and pieces of chair.
Please excuse Rob’s expression, I think he was as surprised to be [...]

XPERIA1 x1 Hands-On Video [ gadget ]

June 17, 2008

With the recent review of the XPERIA1, I thought it might be nice to see the first video shots of the device, and let us all get nostalgic:

XPERIA X1 Reviewed by Boy Genius Report [ gadget ]

June 17, 2008

Looks like the XPERIA x1, the latest mobile phone gem to come out of Sony Ericsson has been brutalized by the likes of Boy Genius, thoroughly handled, and the review is in — is it a winner or a loser?

Find out after the jump:

Optimizing Your Blog For SEO Via Keyword Placement

June 17, 2008

What phrase appears the most times on your site? Mine is “andrew wise” and second is “startup blog”. Considering that I’m optimizing my page for my name, Andrew Wise, that makes sense, but do you know what your most common phrase is?

Is Your Pitch Getting Shot Down? 3 Steps To Make It Effective

June 16, 2008

How do your potential customers feel when you reel off your sales pitch? Are they yawning or are they ecstatic and can’t wait to start throwing money at you?

Regardless of your effectiveness, your pitch can always get better, and from Jill Konrath at Selling to Big Companies, she has a great exercise:
Using a 1-10 (tops) [...]

"We start from the perspective of what problems we do have."

June 13, 2008

That’s a quote from Google’s Chief Mastermind Eric Schmidt, and it’s a really insightful commentary on how people should be building a business and conducting themselves in society. The quote is reflected in their charitable wing of Google.org and reflected across their entire network (ignoring their issue with monetizing YouTube aside). I wanted to specifically [...]

Did You Know You Have The Right to Reproduce? or 6 DMCA Rights

June 12, 2008

Working on my best Stanley Kubrick right there, hopefully this will be a good guide to what you can and can’t do in regards to the DMCA. I think this information is particularly useful given the sticky legal climate we’re in right now and probably will continue to be in for the coming decades as [...]

Firefox Mobile Interface Preview by Aza Raskin

June 12, 2008

Aza Raskin seems to be on a bit of a roll these days, after being hired by Mozilla in January to head up their mobile interface division, and the wildly fun and exciting Songza, he brings us the first sneak peeks at what browsing on Firefox Mobile might look like.
Here’s his video:

Grooveshark Lite on Adobe AIR, Well..Fluid

June 11, 2008

As we work on developing an AIR application or have you the developer community at Grooveshark craft it from our APIs, here is an interim solution that gives you all the elegance of an AIR app without all the coding needed.

Grooveshark's Top Performing Ad on Facebook

June 11, 2008

I’ve been experimenting with our Grooveshark ad campaigns on Facebook and have been happy with the results — we’ve been seeing a huge number of impressions for $.29 CPM, and I just ran a poll to gauge the effectiveness of our ads, strictly from a brand awareness aspect.

Save Time By Storing Your "About Me" Information

June 11, 2008

I sign up for about 5 sites daily on the average, and in the effort to make sure all my tracks are covered, I’m always completing all of the profile fields, so this means I’m typing in my birthday, sex, and phone number all the time, which is pretty much unavoidable. Luckily, I have a [...]

I'm in Florida Trend Magazine !

June 10, 2008

Looks like some of the work I’m doing here at Grooveshark is actually paying off, at least in terms of media exposure. Grooveshark worked with GatorNest on a research project where we brought in Masters students to help us conduct some market research for Grooveshark. They did a great job for us, and as a [...]