Subscription Model

We wanted to give you a quick update on what we are working on.  We are in the stages of implementing a subscription model service on the site.  We are encouraging all music producers to join the site by 3 June 2009.  All musicians who join by the date will be automatically upgraded to our VIP service (and current existing musicians) and will have free access for the life of the site.  All musicians who join after the date will have a free basic account which will have limited features.  So we are asking you to spread the word and get all of your fellow music producers on the site before Wednesday.

We are also looking to offer ability for you to sell beats to your fans.  We are still at the early stages of this development.  For more updates, please follow us on twitter:  @beatbuggy

Thanks again,

Jesse

posted by BeatBuggy Team under General  Up-commings  Musicians Only  

Log into Beatbuggy Using Facebook Connect

Today we are excited to announce the addition of Facebook Connect! Some of you may have noticed Facebook Connect (beta) live on the site for a few weeks, with your help we worked out the bugs and today it is official.

What is Facebook Connnect and why does it matter? At a basic level it lets you easily share what you are doing on Beatbuggy with all your friends on Facebook. With this release you can update your Facebook status and/or publish your music beats, videos and photos directly to your news feed.

Here's how it works:

1.      When you go to Beatbuggy, you're presented with two login options:  using our login system or using Facebook Connect.

2.      If you're not already logged into Facebok, you're prompted with a Facebook authentication page where you enter your Facebook email address and password.

3.      When uploading a beat on beatbuggy, a Facebook Connect dialog box appears prompting you to approve the publishing of a feed story about your action.  You can choose the size of the feed story you'd like to approve, and you can choose to save your setting so that feed stories are automatically published in the future.

4.      After approving the story, it appears on your Facebook profile, using Beatbuggy's favicon for the story and linking directly out to the music beat on beatbuggy.  This story is likely to be syndicated to friends' News Feeds, providing significant brand exposure and potential fans for your beat.

Connect is in its early stages, but we expect it to become more important for us.  There is much more to come in terms of Beatbuggy/Facebook integration. In the meantime stay tuned by connecting your Facebook account, and letting us know what you think.

Fasten your seatbelts everybody, here we come!:-))

Jesse

posted by BeatBuggy Team under General  New Features  

Making Navigation improvements

Over the past several months, the beatbuggy team has been working on strategies for improving navigation to make it easier for you to discover and enjoy new music beats on beatbuggy.  We've been paying close attention to the activity on the site and listening to your feedback.  The next month of or so you will see changes in navigation.  Please be patient with us while we work on this enhancement.

This is just one of many steps we are taking to improve the growth of beatbuggy.  We’ll continue to create new features and improve things across our service.  Thank you for being part of the beatbuggy community and giving us your feedback.  We'll have some new developments to share with you in the near future.  Stay tuned!!:-)

Thanx!

Jesse

P.S. Below are the most recent winners of free iPod Touch from the first 2 week of the beatbuggy.com Giveaway. Congratulations and Happy Holidays to the winners! :-))))

http://www.beatbuggy.com/user/aliquis/

http://www.beatbuggy.com/user/eapie/

posted by BeatBuggy Team under General  

First 2 Weeks (iPod Touch)

Hey Folks,

Below are the most recent winners of free iPod Touch from the first 2 weeks of the beatbuggy.com Giveaway. Congratulations and Happy Holidays to the winners!! :-)

http://www.beatbuggy.com/user/SF21/

http://www.beatbuggy.com/user/MartyRae/

Jesse

posted by BeatBuggy Team under General  

Merry iTouch Week:-)

Hey Folks,

We just rolled out a some site updates to answer two of the most regular user requests:

Messaging - Now you can send and receive messages from your friends

Comment Categorization - Now you can easily see who's commented on your profile, photos, videos, and music. 

Announcements - You can now send message to all of your friends.

Finally, if you haven't already heard, we announced the "iPod Touch-a-Week Giveaway," a new holiday promotion that rewards consumers for listening to music beats.  Each week through December 31, we will give one lucky music lover a free iPod Touch.  All you have to is listen to new music beats, rate beats, invite your friends, and play the music production quiz.  Winners will be announced on this blog.

That's it for now:-)))

Jesse

posted by BeatBuggy Team under General  

I guess we are compatible?

One of the nicest bits of feedback we've received last week was a message from two users who had just connect based on their compatibility score registering as "Best Friends."  The two users shared the exact same favorite producers based on our "Music Compatible Test."

They wrote to say that they decided to form a collobaration.  It all started through common musical interest, which led to them becoming friends online, and to discover that they had a true bond for music.  Wow!

As it happens we've been working on this feature for months to hopefully match your tastes with those of other users, and showing what they friends like.  Judging by a compatibility score, users can be led to other users' profiles in order to find new music beats that you might like.  Making this vision is reality is challenging, but we think we've made a promising start.  Please let us know how you think we're doing, and what would make your experience even better.

Jesse

posted by BeatBuggy Team under General  

We need your help! Vote Beatbuggy:-)

Open Web Awards is the only multilingual international online voting competition that covers major innovations in web technology. Through an online nominating and voting process, the Open Web Awards recognizes and honors the top achievements in 26 categories. The first Open Web Awards achieved over 250,000 votes.  Winners included Facebook, Digg, Google, Meetup, Twitter, Netvibes, woot!, Last.fm and Mahalo.

Nominations will be held from November 5th till November 16th 2008. The first and final voting rounds will be held from November 19th till December 15th.  We are asking for your help to vote us the Best Niche Social Network for 2008.

Our thanks to all the people that voted so far, and to all of you for using the site and helping to build beatbuggy into what it is today.  We're looking forward to bringing a lot of great new stuff to Beatbuggy in 2009.

Thanks,

Jesse

posted by BeatBuggy Team under General