Blip to Win a Free Pass to the San Francisco Music Tech Summit

We are giving away two free passes to the SF Music Tech Summit, being held December 7th at the Hotel Kabuki. The first winner will be selected this Friday, November 13th and the second winner next Friday, November 20th.

To enter, all you need to do is blip a song to Twitter from your Blip.fm account, with “SFMusicTech” and “@blipfm” included in the Comments section of your blip. That’s it!  (Click here to see how to set your Blip.fm account to post to Twitter.) You can enter as often as you’d like, but you can only win once.

Additional Details
Blips with a Twitter timestamp between now and 11:00 pm on November 12th are eligible for the first free pass selection.  Blips with a Twitter timestamp between 11:01 pm November 12th and 5:00 pm November 19th are eligible for the second free pass selection.  (All times/dates are Pacific.)  Winners will be randomly selected and notified via email.  Winners must respond via email within 48 hours of award notification to get their free pass and confirm they will attend.  The prize consists only of one pass to the conference (valued at $129), and does not include any transportation, meals, lodging or other expenses.  All travel and attendance is the winners’ responsibility. We will publicly announce the winners upon confirmation.

The more you blip, the better your chances are to win.  Good luck!

The Blip.fm Team

Love Halloween? Enter Blip.fm’s Musical Halloween Costume Contest! Win 100 Credits

Contest Entry Rules:

1. Upload a Fan photo of yourself in costume to the Blip.fm Facebook Fan page (include your Blip DJ name)

2. Blip a theme song that matches it, with a link to that Fan photo

We will announce the winner on #MusicMonday. Entry deadline: 9pm Pacific, Sunday.

Good luck and Happy Halloween from the Blip.fm Team!

Visualize The Difference

Thanks @evablue for putting together this diagram of the new UI updates. It makes the transition a little easier for anyone looking for things that might have been moved around a bit.

(Flickr Photo)

Shiny! New UI

Today we give Blip.fm a bit of a facelift. We’ve reworked the current feature set to make everything simpler, faster, and cleaner. There’s not a whole lot of *new* stuff in this update, but you’ll notice that all the existing functionality is just more refined.

Under the hood there’s a lot going on, and it’s getting us ready for a big set of new features we’ve already started working on. Here’s a partial list of what’s been changed:

• Simplified top-level menu to get you to the three main streams (everyone, your favorite DJs, and yours)
• Easy access to all your stats and pages at the top right of every page
• Continuous scrolling for each station (eventually it’ll be continuous play throughout the entire site)
• Easily pause / resume the blipstream (auto-update when new blips are available)
• Easily add and toggle social networks you send notifications to on a blip-by-blip basis
• Sort favorite djs and listeners by last blip, by date added, and alphabetically
• Bandwith-limited users can now easily skip video blips
• Improved profile page
• Improved site performance

We’ve been testing this new UI at our beta site http://beta.blip.fm and taking feedback from users (email beta@blip.fm). It’s been a great way to let everyone check out the changes and keep us in the loop regarding what work and what doesn’t. In fact, the system has had such a positive response that we’re going to continue to push new stuff out to http://beta.blip.fm and let interested parties bang on the wheels before pushing it live.

Thanks to everyone who provided feedback for this set of updates. We’ve gone through several rounds of changes and we’re pretty excited to let this loose on the masses. Don’t worry, we’re not taking any breathers either, we’ve already begun the next round of features. This next round is going to bring new features to both DJs and listeners.

Disturbance in the force

UPDATE 2:21 PST

And we’re back. We’ll get to detail later and just want to keep an eye on things for a while.

UPDATE 8:42 PST

First off, thanks for the patience. Been a long day for us here. The good news is that we’re on the path to recovery. The bad news is it’s still going to be a bit more time. We’ll give a more detailed breakdown once we’re back.

UPDATE 2:26 PST

We’ve discovered a number of data inconsistencies we’re working through at the moment. The site should be back up later this evening once we’ve reconciled what we can. Thanks

- Yan