A Bit Crusher
Joined: 01/26/02
Location: Tilburg
Posts: 1794
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So quiet.....
it's sooo quiet over here the last couple of weeks....how come?
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Kylo
Joined: 02/16/05
Location: San Francisco
Posts: 787
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I've been dating this girl lately. has my head in other places for sure. 
"Energizer bunny arrested- charged with battery."
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A Bit Crusher
Joined: 01/26/02
Location: Tilburg
Posts: 1794
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ah....springtime.....
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Sonic Wallpaper
Joined: 05/22/01
Location: San Diego, CA
Posts: 1266
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The world's attention is much more distributed across the Web each month it seems. With sites like YouTube.com, Facebook.com, MySpace.com, and several 100 other social sites, it has become more and more difficult to sustain a smaller community. People want to be where everyone else is, which is nothing new.
For example, Jamendo.com, a site we are often listed along with in blogs because we are both heavily support Creative Commons licensing, has 542,871 members, 30 full time employees, and 14 people doing language translations. Nine of those employees do Marketing and Business Development. With a work force like that behind the site, it's very difficult for us to complete when we have zero full time employees. According to Compete.com, in the last month, they've grown 860%, whereas we have shrunk by 6.93%.
I'm sure we would do much better with 44 people working for the site and a multi million dollar investment like Jamendo has received from a venture capital company. While we don't have that massive advantage, we have survived since our launch in 2001, and continue to provide great services to nearly 7,000 artists and 15,000 registered music fans all with no staff, no funding, and very little revenue.
I'm feeling positive about the future, and see this place growing and surviving for many years to come. I appreciate all of you that have remained here all these years, and especially those of you who help pay the bills by upgrading your accounts.
Keep the faith, spread the word, and create the future you want to see. Maybe we can organize a sign-up drive, see who can get the most new members on the site for a prize.
Kylo... Lou and I are sooooo happy for you  I hope she sees that you are one awesome catch.
ABC - I'll try to post more and interact with everyone more, I know I've been missing in action for some time now.
Smiles everyone... smiles...
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A Bit Crusher
Joined: 01/26/02
Location: Tilburg
Posts: 1794
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>>>People want to be where everyone else is, which is nothing new.
Yep, although this isn't always a good thing, sometimes the crowd becomes too big (for my taste)
>>>>ABC - I'll try to post more and interact with everyone more, I know I've been missing in action for some time now
I can understand that....
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(((stereofect)))
Joined: 09/02/01
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 1333
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“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.” Albert Einstein
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(((stereofect)))
Joined: 09/02/01
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 1333
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“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.” Albert Einstein
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(((stereofect)))
Joined: 09/02/01
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 1333
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"Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them." -- Johannes Brahms
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.” Albert Einstein
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A Bit Crusher
Joined: 01/26/02
Location: Tilburg
Posts: 1794
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Wise words.....
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Sonic Wallpaper
Joined: 05/22/01
Location: San Diego, CA
Posts: 1266
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 that amimated GIF is hilarious! 
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swerve tweeter
Joined: 09/09/05
Posts: 50
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Its quality not quantity gideon and whilst you say youve seen a 6% downturn im sure just lately ive seen a lot more new artists turn up on here, so from my window things are looking and of course sounding greater than ever.
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Sonic Wallpaper
Joined: 05/22/01
Location: San Diego, CA
Posts: 1266
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swerve tweeter wrote:Its quality not quantity gideon and whilst you say youve seen a 6% downturn im sure just lately ive seen a lot more new artists turn up on here, so from my window things are looking and of course sounding greater than ever.
Hi Swerve Tweeter - that's good to hear - oh, and thank you for posting some reviews lately. It's great to see feedback being posted on the site.
Now if we could just get at least 75 more artists to upgrade their accounts, I'd finally get the hosting and bandwidth fees covered on a monthly basis. I still have to cover half of the costs to keep everything online, which isn't fun when you consider that I do the work fore free. Getting people to upgrade isn't easy when the majority of my competition offers all their services for free. I think the answer to the problem is seeking a sponsorship with a few companies who want to reach our demographic.
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Subtronik
Joined: 01/14/03
Posts: 1193
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Sonic Wallpaper wrote:I think the answer to the problem is seeking a sponsorship with a few companies who want to reach our demographic.
I fully agree. The web is oversaturated with free space and there's no way to compete so the only obvious answer is sponsorship. Otherwise this site may not survive and that would really suck.
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Cirix
Joined: 11/24/01
Posts: 6
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I just dont come here enough 
Even though i still have the music in my veins !!!!!!
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Sonic Wallpaper
Joined: 05/22/01
Location: San Diego, CA
Posts: 1266
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I just wanted to add... that ever since this thread went up, we've been seeing more traffic to the site and our 'Alexa' ranking (which is more of an indicator than a real rank), has improved by more than 3,000. Not bad!
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A Bit Crusher
Joined: 01/26/02
Location: Tilburg
Posts: 1794
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