“Spotify is great, but turntable.fm is amazing.” – New York Times
“Biggest threat to productivity today: turntable.fm,” – FastSociety’s Andy Thompson
Turntable.fm founders Seth Goldstein and Billy Chasen sat down with TechCrunch editor Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch Disrupt to talk about the rise of Turntable.fm
Turntable.fm is a browser-based chatroom that streams music based on the choices of a rotating cast of DJs drawn from whoever is in the room. There are up to five DJs at any one time who create playlists; the station cycles through the playlists one song at a time, moving from one DJ’s pick to the next, as the room votes on how “lame” to “awesome” the track is. A (sometimes fast-moving) discussion takes place in a chatroom on the bottom right of the screen. DJs get points for picking popular songs and if enough people think a song is lame, it skips to the next. You can upload songs or search through the Medianet-powered library to create your playlist when it’s your turn to DJ.
Adoption:
Streaming $1 million songs a day
600000K users
40% active users
some power user sessions lasting 12hrs
10s of thousands of song downloads per day
A new breed of action sports film comes to life as Red Bull Media House, in association with Brain Farm Digital Cinema, present “The Art of FLIGHT,” a Curt Morgan film. Equal parts action and adventure mix with the inevitable drama encountered along the way. Two years in the making, “The Art of FLIGHT” gives iconic snowboarder Travis Rice and friends the opportunity to redefine what is possible in the mountains. Join in the ride as the creators of “That’s It, That’s All” completely rewrite the formula for action sports cinema with “The Art of FLIGHT”.
In an interview with WSJ’s Alan Murray, Betaworks CEO John Borthwick discusses the future of social media and how it is changing internet navigation. He claims that the business models of establishment internet companies like Google and Amazon are threatened by social media tools.
From the award-winning documentary, “Playing For Change: Peace Through Music“, comes the first of many “songs around the world” being released independently. Featured is a cover of the Ben E. King classic by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it traveled the globe.
Here is a collection of the top ski and snowboard film previews for the 2008-2009 season…
Under the Influence
Teton Gravity Research proudly presents its latest 16mm/HD ski and snowboard offering: UNDER THE INFLUENCE. This film follows the exploits of today’s top riders.
Two years in the making, this is the follow up to the highly succesful Community Project.
It’s Always Snowing Somewhere
Burton presents “IT’S ALWAYS SNOWING SOMEWHERE”; a double feature, double DVD snowboarding movie. The winter never ends as the team travels from the southern to northern hemisphere laying waste to parks, pipes, pow, big mountain lines, and jibs; Alaska to Argentina.
Hand Cut
The Hand Cut release includes endless pillow lines in the BC interior; exposed descents in the Coast Range with ski mountaineering legend John Chilton; brilliantly shot inverts over the old wood mines on Red Mountain Pass, Colorado; and the original deep-country blues of John-Alex Mason. Hand Cut: self-propelled stories brought to life in High Definition and brilliant 16mm film.
Claim
The official “CLAIM” teaser, brought to you by Matchstick Productions. Check SKIMOVIE.COM to pre-order your copy of “CLAIM” today or find out when the Matchstick Movie Tour will visit your hometown this fall…
With a season of filming wrapped and the long nights of editing kicked off, the Rome SDS and Kids on Shred Productions are pleased to announce the upcoming release of their second full-length team video entitled, you guessed it, No Correct Way.
Aesthetica is a visual journey that captures the essence and elements of snowboarding. This feature snowboard film highlights the riding of progressive and unique freestyle features in the backcountry to the deepest powder conditions of 2008.
Poor Boyz Productions brought competitive skiing into the Information age with their Jib Jam Invitational, a live, online video contest. The event gathered top-level athletes from around the globe and pitted them against each other
During a quick weekend trip down to Connecticut I ended up running into someone who wanted to get rid of an old Honda CB motorcycle. This is a true “garage find” with all the original parts intact and less than 5,500 miles. This will be my 2nd vintage bike restoration, the first one being a 1978 Honda CB 550. Although I’ve been in the market for another late 70′s CB this free 1982 was just too hard to pass up!
About two weeks ago Peter Mel, Flea, Dan Malloy, Garrett MacNamara, the Wormhoudt brothers, and Twiggy rode some of the largest waves ever surfed at Maverick’s in northern California. There was a thick mist and heavy westerly swell pushing directly towards the rocks…
After reading this article on Toyota’s Robotics division…. it seemed like a good idea to check in on some of the latest robotics engineering… here’s what turned up:
The Violinist…
[youtube CQmoTJFScMY - Robot Playing the Violin]
The Trumpeter…
[youtube FAEQoYKEbdI - Robot Playing the Trumpet]
Dancing Robots…
[youtube r57eUpKSQ-c - Japanese Robot Dance]
A Real Live Transformer…
[youtube STQ3nhXuuEM - Transformer Robot]
The Cyclist…
[youtube Srwk-i5aXRQ - Robot Riding a Bicycle]
Terminator…
[youtube MyXpqX4rEwg - The Terminator]
The Humanoid…
[youtube lJZTWwy6eUw - The Humanoid Robot]
Hopefully you didn’t get caught in the shopping madness yesterday…
[youtube Hoo8J3Y8zt4 Black Friday Video]
but if you did choose to spend your evening outside in the cold waiting for the stores to open (only to find that you were not early enough to get 1 of the 10 available [insert loss leader here]… you may want to consider celebrating “Cyber Monday” next year…
Now that we’ve made it halfway through October… I suppose it’s time to start getting psyched for the upcoming winter…
[youtube Rd8AJdcnw4A Terje's 7601 Descent Video]
“Terje HÃ¥konsen (born October 11, 1974 in Vinje, Norway) is a Norwegian snowboarder. HÃ¥konsen is widely considered one of the most influential snowboarders of all time and was one of the sport’s early icons.
HÃ¥konsen dominated freestyle snowboarding in the 1990s winning the ISF World Championships in half-pipe three times in a row, in 1993, 1995 and 1997. He has also won 5 European championships in half-pipe (1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997), the U.S. Open in half-pipe 3 times (1992, 1993, 1995), and the Mt. Baker Banked Slalom 6 times (1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2004). He also won the Innsbruck Air & Style Contest in 1995. HÃ¥konsen set the world record for highest ‘air’ during the finals of the Arctic Challenge in Oslo 2007 when he reached 9.8 meters out of the top of the quarterpipe with a backside 360.
He is the creator of an aerial snowboard maneuver named The Haakon Flip.
HÃ¥konsen is also credited to have developed the T6, the world’s first snowboard to be made out of a material named “Alumafly,” an aluminum honeycomb construction and as a co-creator of the Burton Fish (a powder-specific board) and the Burton Malolo, a cross-breed between a freestyle and powder board.” – Image: norskdesign.no Bio: Wikipedia
“Terje HÃ¥konsen (born October 11, 1974 in Vinje, Norway) is a Norwegian snowboarder. HÃ¥konsen is widely considered one of the most influential snowboarders of all time and was one of the sport’s early icons.