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Re: The DNC via Photoblog and The Great Denver Homeless Coverup

denver — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:39:35 -0000

In response to your comment, Denver's Road Home does partner with Colorado Coalition for the Homeless. However, media reports regarding the matter have been terribly misinformed.

A recent Rocky Mountain News article, "Homeless Steer Clear of Chaos," quotes CCH's director of communications, BJ Iacino, in regards to the movie tickets, or the lack thereof. We are looking to clear up any misinformation.

On our website, we have posted statements to address the spread of information.

Re: Let’s Get Grooveshark On The iPhone!!!

Alex — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:49:01 -0000

Guys, if you want music ala grooveshark and deezer on demand on your iphone (and you're not using last.fm or pandora iphone app) then point your iphone browsers to seeqpod.com and find any song you want and stream it free.

Im a huge fan of grooveshark (listen to it all the time on my desktop) but until it finds its way onto my iphone seeqpod will do.

Cheers
Alex

Re: The DNC via Photoblog and The Great Denver Homeless Coverup

thedanosphere — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:33:34 -0000

Hi Denver,

Thanks for the reply. I find it astonishing that you were unaware of actions taken by groups in your immediate vicinity but to clarify I did some source checking and came up with an article written by Denver's own Rocky Mountain News @ Hey buddy, can you spare a movie ticket?

From the article: "The Colorado Coalition for the Homeless plans to get 500 movie tickets as well as passes to the Denver Zoo, Denver Museum of Nature and Science and other cultural facilities for the people it helps."

Does Denver's Road Home not work closely with The Colorado Coalition for the Homeless?

Re: The DNC via Photoblog and The Great Denver Homeless Coverup

Denver — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:47:06 -0000

I work for Denver's Road Home and would like to provide some clarification. Denver's Road Home is the mayor's ten-year plan to end homelessness.

Haircuts were donated by a privately owned salon, which incurred all costs associated with the event. The City and County of Denver had no involvement with the event. However, we do applaud the business's showing of community support on this issue.

Denver's Road Home is unaware the distribution of any movie, zoo, or museum passes. A statement regarding this issue was release by Colorado Coalition for the Homeless.

The City and County of Denver has not and will not buy any bus tickets aimed at the transport of its homeless population.

More information may be found at denversroadhome.org

Re: Let’s Get Grooveshark On The iPhone!!!

Matt — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:56:31 -0000

Grooveshark is great, but I really prefer http://www.deezer.com ! Of course, none of those website provide free music for your iPhone but... maybe someday ? :)

Re: Let’s Get Grooveshark On The iPhone!!!

shaun — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:56:22 -0000

Try Pandora. It can actually find songs similar to what yoiu like. So far Grooveshark has said it can't find songs similar, although it can fins the song and play it. It's cool that you can play one song, but the real value of a service like this is to expose users to new music.

The real value of Grooveshark will be if it can match Pandora's huge database backing it. In the 10 minutes I played with Grooveshark, I ended up shutting my windows and opening Pandora again.

Re: Design of GUI: Ganondagan Interactive Timeline

bf — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:59:07 -0000

Dan
I cannot find an email for you, could you please contact me about the
http://www.artfunction.com/DGUI/site/

Thank you

Re: IE6 and IE7 on One Machine with IETester

westsidewill — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:12:27 -0000

Thanks for the heads up. I've never come across IETester before and it is definitely a timesaver, because testing for all the idiosyncrasies that the different IEs present is definitely a pain.

Re: Let’s Get Grooveshark On The iPhone!!!

bwc — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:39:28 -0000

Hey Dan,

First, thanks so much for thinking so much of us that you'd enjoy Grooveshark in other environments (like mobile). Your kind words mean so much, and we're insanely flattered--and welcome to Groovesharkers Anonymous. :)

As for the iPhone, well, I'd be lying to you if I said we Sharks are anything but huge fans. Aside from having more than a few iPhones in the office, it's genuinely just cool that Apple has rallied so much interest in mobile app development. Point being: a Grooveshark iPhone app is something we'd definitely all love.

Right now (even more than usual), our internal resources (see: development man-hours) are stretched insanely thinly trying to get some big updates and releases out there for you guys. Currently, there are a couple of key things here that will determine the time-frame for a Grooveshark iPhone app:

1) The Grooveshark API. We're rolling out a few APIs for any interested developers to have at their disposal, the coolest of which is the streaming API. Basically, the streaming API allows any developer access to use our back-end as a music catalog to stream any song in any app that they make. This is easily extendable to the iPhone, where devs could really make dozens of music-related mobile apps to stream music however they like.

2) Us taking a look at and making an estimate of the expected resources needed to make the Grooveshark iPhone app ourselves, in-house. I'd love to be able to say "We're working on it tomorrow!", as I said, there are a couple other big pushes we need to hook up before we could (justifiably) re-allocate tons of time to this. So it pretty much comes down to how developed our API is, how much time we expect developing an iPhone app to take, and, as you pointed out, the demand from you guys to see it. We're never wont to reject a request you guys have, as we love you all and really couldn't exist without you.

Sorry for the lengthy reply, Dan, but I just wanted to keep you fully apprised of everything we're thinking right now. You are as valuable to our development process as we are, so I feel good being completely transparent about everything we're up to! And like I said, the more demand, the much better case I'll be able to make to the rest of the guys about pushing this out to the waters sooner rather than later.

Thanks again, and as always, hit me up if there's absolutely anything else I can help out with.

-Ben

Re: Grooveshark: This Can’t be Legal

Darny's Daily — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:46:29 -0000

Awesome! I use Pandora and happen to like it very much, but this one is even more intriguing. Will look into it more..

♥ Darny's Daily

Re: Grooveshark: This Can’t be Legal

thedanosphere — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:15:03 -0000

Andrew, thanks for the response! Great to a see a team that listens to the community. I love what you guys are doing over there keep up the good work, I couldn't get through the work day without Grooveshark :)

Re: Grooveshark: This Can’t be Legal

Andrew Wise — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:40:41 -0000

Dan, thanks for the kind words, wanted to tell you to check out Tinysong.com the fastest way to share music with friends: search for a song, and get a tinysong link that redirects to Grooveshark Lite and the song plays immediately.

Also, as far as getting artist support for Grooveshark, Rob Thomas recently stopped by our office.

Let me know if I can answer any questions,

Andrew
andrew.wise at grooveshark dot com

Re: Disqus: The Future of Blog Comments?

spence411 — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:54:06 -0000

Just installed Disqus and needed an excuse to make a comment!

Re: Disqus: The Future of Blog Comments?

thedanosphere — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:59:07 -0000

I completely agree! I was a little hesitant to add it due to that factor you mentioned (remote comment hosting) but in the end I was like f*ck it- enough of my other data is hosted remotely (facebook, digg, to name a few) it should be reliable enough.

I think the major plus is the probability of other Disqus users to post comments- I know personally I'm about 90% more likely to post comments on a Disqus powered blog because its just EASIER. That's all there is too it! There are other benefits but for me that's #1. I also think their whole "post unverified" language for non-Disqus users is a bit confusing but... oh well ;)

Re: Disqus: The Future of Blog Comments?

julianbaldwin — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:30:29 -0000

Definitely game changing. There's a lot of skepticism about having someone else host your comments, but as you said, the benefits far exceed the downfalls. I've read on several instances that the ease of not having to fill out a form has increased comments on blogs. It will be interesting to see how the market evolves as competitors like SezWho tries to stay ahead of the curve as well. Less of a competitor and more of a complement is the FriendFeed plugin to show comments and likes above or below Disqus comments.