June 7, 2010

Welcome To Your New Dashboard.

We have unleashed a big update on Mugasha, your new Mugasha Dashboard!

As you see above the dashboard lets you now follow your friends on Mugasha. You can see what they have been listening to lately, the stuff they've liked, their comments, etc, all in real time. The dashboard has honestly revolutionized the way I listen and find music on Mugasha.

To open up your dashboard just click the 'Dashboard' link at the top right on Mugasha:

Once you are on the Dashboard page, you'll see the main section contains updates of the activity of the people you follow. On the right sidebar there are links to see your own history of listens, likes, and comments as well as the shows that you have subscribed to:

Below that you will see a section where you can follow your friends from Facebook (if you've connected your Facebook account):

You can also see people's activity feed and follow them directly on their User Page:

We plan to add more features to the dashboard as we go. Hope you enjoy. We'd love to hear your feedback.

To get started, why not follow your favorites from Team Mugasha ;)

Akshay Dodeja

Justin Thiele

Varun Thota

Posted by Justin Thiele

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May 24, 2010

Mugasha + Last.fm Scrobbling = <3

Hey everybody! Ever since we first launched Mugasha about 10 months ago, one of the top feature requests has been the ability to "Scrobble" the music that you listen to on Mugasha to your Last.fm account. I'm excited to let you know that it's here!

For those who aren't familiar with Scrobbling, it's a service offered by Last.fm that enables you to record all the songs that you listen to. You can then see stats about your listening habits and share them with friends. It's actually pretty awesome. Check it out:

It's easy to set up and get your Last.fm account connected.

First click "Settings" at the top right of Mugasha:

On your "Settings" page look for the Last.fm section on the bottom right side of the page and click the "Connect Your Last.fm Account" button:

You'll then be taken to Last.fm where you can log in. If you don't have a Last.fm account yet, you can quickly register for one there too:

Then just click the "Yes, allow access" button, to give Mugasha permission to post to your Last.fm account:

You're good to go. Mugasha will now automatically scrobble all of your listens to your Last.fm account. Enjoy your new found ability :)

Thanks for using Mugasha. You're the peeps we do it for. Cheers!

--The Mugasha Family

Posted by Justin Thiele

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February 17, 2010

Seamless Login and Sign Up Without Music Interruption

At Mugasha, our goal is to make it really easy to listen to and navigate the site. We know we have a log way to go, but starting today we are making it really easy to login and sign up. You can now login or signup while playing a set, and the page won't refresh the page or stop playback. We use some neat Javascript/Ajax to make this happen. Many of you have requested this feature. Many of you also want to browse the website while listening to music, heck even we would love that. That change is a bit more involved and we will slowly transition Mugasha, where you will be able to browse the site while playing a set.

Tracking plays is important.

There is another reason why we care so much about this feature. We noticed that people love listening to long sets but often forget to login. If you are logged in we can archive all your plays so you have easy access to history of what you have been listening to. Also, you can easily like tracks and sets and make comments. Play history will be a big part of making it easy to discover new music for people. We are currently working on some new features that will help your friends and followers (oooh what?) discover and keep track of new music, based on your listening habits.

So these new features...

Yes, so we are working on new features. Many of you might have been subscribing to shows. You will soon receive notifications through email/Facebook in an email digest of all your subscriptions. When you subscribe to a show, Mugasha will notify you about new sets part of that show as they become available on the site. If you subscribe to a lot of shows, we will send you an weekly digest of all the new sets in one email. Don't worry we don't like spam either.

I also mentioned following users. We are working on a new dashboard. You will be able to follow users and artists that interest you. The Dashboard will be similar to a live stream on Facebook, where you will have a real time view of what your followers/friends are listening to, liking, engaging and doing things around the site. This will make it fun and easy to discover new music and artists on Mugasha. Stay tuned, more information on this is coming soon.

Styles.

They are coming soon. You will be able to find sets and shows tagged with various styles (genres).

iPhone and Android mobile apps.

We are close to launching the Mugasha beta iPhone and Android applications. More information and form to signup for the free beta app next week.

Feedback.

Please, please we need your feedback. Leave your comments or requests on http://feedback.mugasha.com or send us an email. feedback@mugasha.com

Posted by Akshay Dodeja

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January 21, 2010

Mugasha Friends - Skribit is Ready For Showtime!

Skribit just launched and is out of beta. I am sure many of your are asking what is Skribit?

They do a good job explaining what it is. Check out the tour on their website and their about page.

"Skribit cures writer's block by tapping your blog's readership for post suggestions. They are the ones reading your blog, so it makes sense to ask them for ideas on what to write about next. Once you have received a few suggestions, your readers may also follow suggestions to make sure you know exactly what topics are popular with your readers and so they receive notifications when suggestions are updated."

Skribit was launched by our good friend Paul Stamatiou and few other folks (@Stammy, @cyu, @alexcoomans, @lance). Paul is a blogger, he writes mainly about tech and reviews a lot of cool gadgets. I read his blog pretty regular and found out about Startup Weekend a few years ago, which is where he started working on Skribit. Ironically Mugasha was also founded during Portland Startup Weekend in May of 2008.

I would love to have Skribit for our Mugasha blogs. The team blog and Mugasha Aux blog are powered by Posterous. Currently Posterous does not support javascript so using it is out of question. Perhaps we can persuade our friends at Posterous to offer Skribit as a plugin in the near future.

In the mean time, if you are are a blogger check out Skribit and give them some feedback. I am sure they would love to hear what you think.

Posted by Akshay Dodeja

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December 3, 2009

The Mugasha Merch Store is now Open!

We've been teasing you for the past few weeks about the release of Mugasha t-shirts. Well, I've got good news, my friends. The Mugasha Merch store is now open!

So far the shop just has one item, but it's a good one:

The Mugasha Representin' Tee

These are the first ever Mugasha t-shirts! Screen printed by hand by Akshay, Justin, & Varun on American Apparel 100% cotton unisex tees. The shirt color is asphalt with a white Mugasha logo.

These things are great for showing your Mugasha Love all over town, but especially in the clubs and at shows. People will instantly realize just how "in the know" you really are :-)

We'll even ship the shirts for FREE in the United States and just $5 every where else in the world.

This is only the beginning. We'll be adding more items to the shop in the future, including more t-shirt colors/styles, hoodies, and other fun stuff.

While we're on the subject of shirts, why not help us get some better product photos? Send us pictures of you and your friends sporting your Mugasha gear: photos@mugasha.com

Have at it!

Mugasha Merch Store

Posted by Justin Thiele

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November 18, 2009

Come visit the Mugasha demo table at the WebPlay Conference Tomorrow

Akshay will be on hand at the Mugasha demo table tomorrow at the WebPlay Conference in Sunnyvale tomorrow. It's going to be an amazing day of speakers, demos, etc:

WebPlay will be an event communicating the latest trends in the marketplace with experienced entrepreneurs and experts in the field. Join us as we explore leveraging social media, crowd sourcing, real time applications, and we'll dive into the minds of hip web investors. 300-400 Web 2.0 focused entrepreneurs, VC’s, angels, and developers are expected to attend.

Agenda & Tickets

Come say hi!

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Posted by Justin Thiele

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November 3, 2009

Mugasha...now Finger Dance at Work!

Hey guys, I am excited to report that you can now listen to Mugasha at work!

Some of you were having an issue where your company's firewall blocked our music streaming. So we made some changes to how the music streams and it should be all cleared up now. We dare you to give it a try ;-)

Here's a fuzzy pic of me finger dancing to Randy Boyer's remix of Smashing Pumpkins' Disarm: http://mugasha.com/Club-Life/122-Hour-1#/track/3/Smashing-Pumpkins/Disarm

Get'cher headphones and start finger dancin' ;-)

Posted by Justin Thiele

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October 26, 2009

Site Updates and Free Stuff - October 2009 Newsletter

Hey Mugasha-villians!

How've you all been? Things keep chuggin' along here at Mugasha HQ. We had a great launch! If you want to revel in all the great things the blogs had to say about us, check our press page, lol.

New Shows

Since we talked last we launched 3 new shows on Mugasha.

The first was Marcie's "Behind The Lyric". If you haven't heard it yet, it's a really unique show filled with short interviews from top EDM artists talking about the inspiration behind the lyrics of top tracks. It's awesome.

Next was Silk Royal Showcase from the Silk Royal A&R guy, Jacob Henry. Each month Jacob showcases new stuff coming out of the Silk Royal label and it's affiliates. Killer tracks and guestmixes from artists like Solarity, Proff, Ad Brown, etc.

The most recent show is the Drum & Bass Arena Podcast. We know many of you have been wanting to get some DNB goodness on Mugasha. Well, we got one of the best DNB shows out there. It's a weekly show, featuring new music and guestmixes from some of the hugest DNB acts out there. Think DJ Rap, Sub Focus, Marky, Pendulum, etc.

Mugasha T-shirts!

We are working on making some Mugasha t-shirts, so you can show your Mugasha love in the offline world, too! Keep an eye out for them going on sale shortly. In the meantime, there's still time to win a free (as in beer) Mugasha hoodie, by voting for your favorite shirt color scheme.

Quick Survey (and win a free shirt)

Speaking of your opinion, we'd love to hear it. We'd like to know a little bit more about you are using Mugasha and get your feedback about how we're doing. This helps us understand what we are doing well and how we can improve. We'll even give out a free Mugasha shirt to a lucky person who completes the survey! Take the survey.

Free Deadmau5 Tickets Contest

Last but not least, we are super excited for the Deadmau5 show coming up on October 28th, here in Portland. We have a pair of tickets to give away to the show and, for good measure, we'll throw in a sweet Mugasha t-shirt! The contest ends tomorrow (Tuesday, Oct. 27th), so don't delay. There are 2 easy ways to register to win:

Send a message on twitter with the hashtag: #deadmau5pdx. Maybe something like "Can't wait for the Deadmau5 show! Tweet #deadmau5pdx for a chance to win free tix!"
You can also register using Facebook. All you have to do is invite 10 friends to the Deadmau5 event listing! After you've done that just let us know in the comments here.

That's it! If you want to get more frequent updates, subscribe to the Team blog and the Aux Blog. If you just want to chat, send us an email at team@mugasha.com.

Hope you're all doing well.

Cheers!

Justin, Akshay, & Varun

Posted by Justin Thiele

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October 25, 2009

Mugasha Survey: fill it out and maybe get a free shirt!

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Posted by Justin Thiele

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October 12, 2009

The Drum & Bass Arena Podcast now on Mugasha!

Many of you have been asking for some Drum N Bass on Mugasha. And we've been listening. Today, we are coming through in a big way. I'm super excited to announce the launch of the Drum & Bass Arena Podcast on Mugasha!

Drum & Bass Arena is absolutely the #1 online destination for DNB. If you are a DNB fan or have ever just been curious about DNB, you've probably spent some long nights in their archives. The DNBA Podcast is phenominal. Each week, The Risky (Drum & Bass Arena Founder) presents the latest cuts in the dnb scene and and digs deep in the crates to find some classic tunes. AND he brings in A-list dnb DJs for an exclusive guestmix. Guests have included the crème de la crème of the industry: Andy C, DJ Hype, Pendulum, Marky, etc, etc, etc.

The DNBA Podcast is launching with 5 sets on Mugasha, with new shows being added every week. Tell us your favorite episodes in their back catalog and we'll see if we can get them up on Mugasha, too!

Episodes available right now on Mugasha:

DJ Rap 'Propa Talent History' Mix