http://blog.blip.fm Where the engineers write stuff Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:59:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://blog.blip.fm/2009/11/10/blip-to-win-a-free-pass-to-the-san-francisco-music-tech-summit/ 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. ... http://blog.blip.fm/2009/10/30/love-halloween-enter-blipfm%e2%80%99s-musical-halloween-costume-contest-win-100-credits/ 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) http://blog.blip.fm/2009/10/27/visualize-the-difference/ 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 ... http://blog.blip.fm/2009/10/19/shiny-new-ui/ 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. ... http://blog.blip.fm/2009/09/26/disturbance-in-the-force/ Our own fearless leader and CEO Jeff Yasuda will be speaking on the music panel at The Twitter Conference in Los Angeles tomorrow at 3:15 pm PDT. Alongside Jeff will be what's shaping up to be an awesome lineup of speakers and panelists for the two-day event, including Biz Stone ... http://blog.blip.fm/2009/09/21/blipfm-ceo-to-speak-at-the-twitter-conference/ #musicmonday Congratulations to the Top 3 DJ's with the most props for last week: @tubilino @GR8FL @ladypn! # it's official, the results are in for this weeks Power Prize Pack giveaway from Griffin Tech and Blip.fm! We've... ♫ http://blip.fm/~d8jh8 # still time left to enter this weeks Blip.fm and Griffin Tech contest ... http://blog.blip.fm/2009/09/14/weekly-twitter-updates-2009-09-14/ As a result of the recent unexpected closure of our merchandise partner, Blip.fm will be developing an even better store that will offer new services and fresh goodies sure to please blippers far and wide! We apologize for the inconvenience this closure poses for those of you in the Bliposphere who ... http://blog.blip.fm/2009/09/10/blipfm-planning-new-supershop-experience/ Starting now, we'll be randomly selecting 3 lucky DJs each Friday for the next four weeks to win a Power Prize Pack from our friends at Griffin Technology, the leader in ultra cool and useful iPod accessories! The Power Prize Pack includes: 1 PowerDuo Reserve AC and car charger plus rechargeable backup ... http://blog.blip.fm/2009/09/08/calling-all-djs-blipfm-and-griffin-technology-team-up-for-power-prize-pack-giveaway/ @edcetera if you type "DJ SS" (with the quotes), you'll get a bunch of tracks by DJ SS :) in reply to edcetera # hey @niclone, looks like we've been able to resolve the qwest ad issue, please let us know via support if that isn't the case. thanks! # @gopalo -- ... http://blog.blip.fm/2009/09/07/weekly-twitter-updates-2009-09-07/