Halloween approaches, and the more creative among radio folk are preparing for the occasion. Turntable.fm has once again broken out the Halloween avatars. Here are some samples: “They’ll only be here for a limited amount of time,” tt.fm warns, “so enjoy them while they last! Halloween avatars, like lives, are fleeting.” Meanwhile, Goddess bless NPR, […]
I spent some time in Hong Kong and Japan in July, and when I came back, a minor revolution had taken place at my favorite turntable.fm room: Classical of Any Kind (or COAK as the regulars call it). I guess you could call it a BOT revolution. The name of the BOT is called “boothoven[bot].” The […]
The Turntable.fm Android application is finally available (oddly unannounced this weekend on tt.fm’s official blog). I tried it on Saturday, and it works very well on my Droid X. Nice, economical interface. The chat feature is very clear and easy to use. My DJ Queue menu works fine. And, most important, the music sounds great. […]
Regular Radio Survivor readers are doubtlessly aware of Turntable.fm, my colleague Matthew’s favorite online music site. Turntable lets users join a room, pick an avatar and play DJ for all the other listeners in the virtual club. Matthew likes the “Classical of all kinds” room, but there are rooms dedicated just about every other genre […]
Great news for tt.fm devotees. Now when you are in a turntable.fm room, you can gossip sotto voce with your closest buddies about the other folks around. Private messaging is up and running, the service announced in this morning’s blog post. Got something to say that you don’t want to share with the whole room? […]
Last week was Social Media Week, with hosted discussions across the globe about the social networking phenomenon. Jennifer Waits and I attended some interesting panels on Friday at Adobe’s headquarters in San Francisco, among them one on the future of social music. During the discussion Seth Goldstein, co-founder of my favorite social networking site: Turntable.fm, […]
Turntable.fm has a new blog post updating users on features that the service has added over the last few months. I’m a regular tt.fm user, and while I’ve noticed some, I’ve missed a few myself. Ignore Last night I was on the Classical of Any Kind room, and somebody starting complaining that my choice of […]
It only makes sense, really, that a medium often referred to as the aether should now be associated with the cloud. For those who haven’t been paying attention to the interwebs for the last couple of years, the cloud refers to idea of data being available on nearly ubiquitous servers, anywhere on the internet. Gmail […]
2011 was supposed to be the Pandora Takeoff Moment—the year that Pandora went public and solidified its absolute, total dominance over Internet radio and music streaming. And coming out of the starting gate in February, it sure looked like that was going to happen. Pandora’s S-1 form noted that it had registered 80 million users […]
Guess I’m going to be in charge of announcing Turntable.fm music festivals from now on. Don’t forget that tomorrow night (Wednesday), the mashupfm folks are launching the world’s first online “Mashtival“. Now here’s more news. On Thursday December 8, Party Bus and Fratmusic Radio are having a big shindig from 8:00pm until 1:00 am at The […]
