Tuesday, January 10, 2012 1:06:34 PM
I'm working on a new video game website with @dubielzyk and pretty excited for it. All I can say right now that it's called Game ID and it's about video games.
For future updates, follow @_gameid on Twitter, like the Facebook page or sign up for email updates on the website.
Monday, November 15, 2010 10:13:52 AM
I still really love thesixtyone. Definitely one of the best websites for streaming music from the Internet to your ears.
Friday, June 5, 2009 10:56:07 AM
A while ago I posted about thesixtyone and didn't really go into much detail about the site - but that's because I hadn't been using it much. More recently, I've become addicted to the site. Forget Spotify, move over Last.fm Radio, I'm playing the game.
thesixtyone turns listening to music into a game; the more you listen to and 'heart' music, the more reputation you gain. The more rep you gain, the more you level up. The more you level up, the more you can do with the site and the better you look. You see how it's addictive?
When you first arrive at thesixtyone, I can't say it's obvious how you navigate around the site; but if you stick to it, you'll soon get used to it and find that you're zooming around the site to find the music you want to play and the music you need to listen to.
I say 'need' because thesixtyone isn't about merely listening to music that you want to hear - there's the game element - and if you're playing the game, listening isn't the fastest way to increase your level; you can complete quests - and this is where the site becomes a whole lot of fun.
This Just In
Listen to seven songs on the first pages of the recently posted section of the home page.
Award: 10 reputation, 2 hearts
'This Just In' is one example of a daily quest and is a way of earning frequent rep and hearts. There are Main Quests too which are sometimes a little more complex, but score larger rewards. Discovering a song before fellow users will gain you rep on a daily basis too and you'll here audio confirmation that you're the first to discover that track (which is a really neat feature).
N' Sync
Get four listeners who you've invited to listen to the same artist at the same time.
Award: 50 reputation, 5 hearts
A massive advantage to thesixtyone is that by playing the game you're allowing the site to take you on a journey of undiscovered music - there are many 'unsigned acts' on the site and you'll find yourself listening to artists and genres that you wouldn't usually listen to.
I think the best way to get into thesixtyone and to fully understand what I'm babbling on about, is to check it out for yourself. The site integrates well with Twitter, Facebook and Last.fm - so there's no excuses not to get social about it.
Sign up for free - remember that you were referred by coxy - and get playing.
Monday, May 11, 2009 11:58:29 PM
Last week, or maybe the week before, I spent a few hours (until the early hours) making a website for my friends Encyclopedia - who happen to also be a rock band.
It's a pretty simple website - but it does the job - or will do by the time it's complete. At the minute, the basics are there, but that shouldn't stop you from taking a look at the site and subscribing to the RSS feed.
Encyclopedia have a single due for release at the start of June 2009, it's called 'Hilary' and it's their first release in 3 years. You can find it through the flash player on their site, on Bandcamp (where it'll be available to download in lossless format for a small fee) and on Last.fm (where you can scrobble the track).
Please check it out and if you like what you hear, tell your friends, blog it, tweet it, shout it from the rooftops.
The boys are back in town.
Thursday, April 16, 2009 10:56:19 PM
On thesixtyone, you can find some awesome music from upcoming artists. I've just hearted Essie Jain - Glory.
If you haven't got an account already, you should sign up. And remember, you were referred by coxy.
Leave some track loving in the comments; what are your new found favourites?
Tuesday, January 6, 2009 4:18:36 PM
Hip-hip-hooray! Let's all give a big hearty three cheers fore this year marks then tenth anniversary of the UK's long-running independent and trust-worthy videogames website, Gamestyle.
Ten long years; that means that Gamestyle shares its birthday with the likes of Blogger, Fark, Metafilter and Something Awful, is older than DeviantArt, Wikipedia, Flickr, MySpace and is a whole five years older than Facebook. Where did it all go wrong, eh?
Over the coming months (let's not strain ourselves, now), there'll be a whole load of required and well-overdue updates to the site. Things will be fixed that were previously broken, the site will become easier to use from both a visitor and staff perspective - and most of all the site will become a lot more useful to everyone (fingers-crossed).
I'd say that it's the least we could do to the site to celebrate such a landmark is give the site the overhaul it needs. There might even be a little house party along the way. Stay tuned and be supportive.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:54:50 PM
Quality video! To quote from Digg, via my ever-so-wonderful girlfriend Victoria:
A mashup of true and mostly-true stories from IT hell. If you've ever called tech support and wondered what the hell they are doing down there... well, this should answer some questions for you. Starring Apache, Windows XP, Linux and Halo (among many others).
Thursday, May 22, 2008 8:54:36 PM
Yesterday, Last.fm announced that a new beta of their site is available, and so as a subscriber (because it's available to subscribers only) I was straight on there to check it out.
Some of the new features included 'Your Library' (the ability to drill down into your entire music profile to every last artist and track scrobbled), real time charts, an improved music player, podcasts, sharing options, activity feeds and a new design - and whilst it's a win situation on some parts, it's very much a lose situation on others.
The biggest problem for me (and other users) is the new design. I can understand that hauling over a major site in the way of design will be tough - because people don't like change, and a mass userbase will react badly to it (I'm sure Opera Community staff can vouch for that). But Last.fm have turned their music orientated site into yet another social network clone - and that's what's ruining it for me.
Browsing through the site, I see that some pages have improved. In the case of the artist page, information is easier to find and bands, artists, visitors and users alike will have a more familiar layout to navigate around (since it pretty much looks like a cross between a MySpace profile and a Facebook profile), but the same treatment to the profile page just makes Last.fm look like another generic boring social networking site - especially with the addition of the Facebook-like 'Activity Feed'.
I'm torn on this one, but I guess I'm just going to have to put up with whatever we're given - I've used Last.fm since the Audioscrobbler days, so it's not like I'll be joining iLike anytime soon.
If you're a Last.fm subscriber, head over to beta.last.fm now to make up your own mind. For those that aren't subscribers to Last.fm, you can get your own sneak peek at the new beta in this photo album on Opera Community.
Wednesday, January 2, 2008 11:00:00 PM
New years bring new things, and with 2008 comes a new version of Gamestyle. We decided to scrap the news, remove the ads, cut the crap and strip the site back to what it used to be (and should be) about; a good source for trust-worthy reviews, previews and writing interesting features.
I did an initial design for this a while back and since then Dave Carlson has done a great job pulling the site together and making it work. The whole process has taken months; but all of that time, aside from about 4 days, has been spent procrastinating or being busy with life - when we've actually found time to sit and work on the site, it's progressed quickly.
There's still a list of things to do on the site (sort out the forums, for example), and tweaks to be made here and there, but the bulk of the site is done - and I'm happy with it thus far. Everything on the site is licensed under Creative Commons, so make of that what you will.
It'd be great if you could visit the site - and if you like what you see, subscribe to the rss feed, sign up to the forums, link us on your blog or tell your friends.
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Tuesday, August 8, 2006 12:39:50 PM
So, I'm back from Munkyfest. I have a whole load of photos that I need to upload, and when I do - I'll blog about the Munkyfest experience. But in short; it was amazing.
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