Why Turntable.fm is the most exciting social service of the year
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#2They've just (last hour) restricted to "US only". Big shame, loved the service from here in the UK.
Re: Why Turntable.fm is the most exciting social service of the year
#3They've just (last hour) restricted to "US only". Big shame, loved the service from here in the UK.
This sucks! I was using it just a few minutes ago. I am so sick of the music industry and their retarded licensing system.
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#4Just tried to sign up and apparently they very much want me to sign up via facebook. Invites to people who want to login with their email are apparently only given out "sometimes". Great! Thanks for that! So I have to give my data to Mark Zuckerberg who tries his best to make it as public as possible, in order to use your service?
But it get's better: If you sign up via email, you have to answer "Who'd win in a wrestling match, lemmy or god?" To answer this they expect you to watch some silly Youtube video. No thanks! What ever happened to making sign up as easy as possible? With that attitude turntable can keep its service for itself!
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#5I actually think one Interaction decision they made (intentionally or unintentionally) that helped with engagement a lot is the lack of a queue system for becoming DJ. Forcing people to be first to click to become a DJ when one leaves means that anyone who wants to be DJ means that everyone who wants to DJ has to be paying close attention/very engaged in the room, which probably leads to more chats, more thought put into what they will spin, etc.
This taps into people's natural desire to be seen and heard and impact the world around them, and also makes them more invested the longer they wait -- if you've been waiting for a DJ spot to open up for 30 minutes, or haven't been able to click in fast enough, you feel almost obligated to stay until you get one. And then once you get one, you feel like the cost of getting there was such that you don't want to give the seat up.
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#7They've just (last hour) restricted to "US only". Big shame, loved the service from here in the UK.
For the time being, it seems like that would open up an opportunity to launch a similar product in the UK with local licensing. Get to work!
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#8They've just (last hour) restricted to "US only". Big shame, loved the service from here in the UK.
Well as much as it sucks, I am sure they would have gotten into legal hell otherwise. Thanks very much to the current copyright system.
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#9They've just (last hour) restricted to "US only". Big shame, loved the service from here in the UK.
For all you Lawers and Biz-Dev people who keep crying for a developer to help them do their next 'web hit'.
How about taking your skills and trying to find a way to bring media (music/video) to the 6 billion people who do live outside of the US ?
Now that would be a real startup !
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#10The licensing restrictions on this are jarring ("We can only play you a preview of this song until someone else starts DJ'ing") but I guess they can't have it just be a personal music service.