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It may not matter if Grovveshark is better than Pandora, as Pandora may be shutting their doors soon anyway. So if you’ve been enjoying free music at work from Pandora, learning about new bands, get ready to jump ship and check out this new offering.
Grooveshark allows you to receive suggested music based on your musical preferences, like Pandora, but you can also go back and listen to the song whenever you like. There’s also a very easy search interface allowing you to listen to whatever song you’d like, as long as it’s in its database of over 5 million songs.
Grooveshark seemed very easy to use, and its flash interface was attractive and clean. I’d highly recommend giving this free service a try while your treading water at work.
Grooveshark — Listen to Music for Free Online; Download Music and Earn Free Songs for Sharing
I’m heading off for the day to hike Stony Man (Blue Ridge Mountains) with a fellow Wake Forest alumnus, William Warren. We haven’t hit the trails in a while, so we’re starting out with this shorter 3.7 mile trek.
Having moved several times, things that just don’t fit anymore get left behind. This included my old hiking shoes, so I’m searching this morning for the right pair. These look good, I guess.
With easy self publishing popping up all over the net, the ability to publish social network based sites has emerged from the dust. RWW suggests that two of the top blog/CMS hybrid tools Wordpress (BuddyPress) and Movable Type are poised to contend in this new space.
I think there’s a huge point here. Not that Windows Vista is actually amazing, but rather how well people have been swayed by the marketing campaigns of Window’s rivals. Apple has successfully changed the marketing environment by creating a culture around an operating system. AN OPERATING SYSTEM?! But in essence, they have a huge grassroots “campaign” of users who are so enthralled with the Apple idea that they serve as little billboards for Macs.
Don’t get me wrong. Almost every type of product can have brand loyalty associated with it, and people love to share their opinions to support their product purchases. However, Apple has done this successfully on such a grand scale that the negative culture inferred to the Window’s platform is beginning to be absorbed by everyday non-techies.
Very rarely does this type of marketing span outside of its immediate, most radical range of users. The big test outside of this marketing success will be the market penetration that Apple is persuing for Mobile Devices and Computer OS’s. At what percentage of marketing penetration do you believe Apple would really prove themselves? 10%? 20%?
