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2008-01-08 01:21:41

New Design

After some of our favorite critics called the look of our site, unprofessional, we decided to add some window dressing. Yes I caved and added another image to the site. I strive to keep the image count down. I might in the future reduce it all to one image, but sometimes that can be a pain. Anyway we are got ... 2007-12-31 22:31:08

Steal This Film

Just saw this film. It is an excellent description of the effect that changing media has on society.

Steal This Film 2007-12-21 02:51:22

Picture This

I have been playing around with mapping the mp3 blogosphere. So far I can make the graphs, but they sometimes get bunchy. Their were lots of failuers leading up to this graph, but this is my favorite.

This is the top 500 ranked mp3 blogs according to their TasteStalkr Rank. The dot size indicates the blogs rank, bigger means closer ...

2007-12-08 20:25:12

How We Do It

Besides all the work we do, we also use a number of tools. We are big supporters of the open source stack. The rights given too us by the various open source licenses, allow us to develop value without the fear that someone can come and take away our tools. It also allows us to modify our stack as we ...

2007-12-06 23:37:03

Shooting Our Own Feat

Thats the best way to go nowhere. We relized today that our javascript wasn't working in many browsers because many people don't have firebug installed.

As much as we wish everyone was equipped with the most handy web dev tool known to man,except textmate, not all of use are developers. This little mishap showed us a little ...

2007-12-05 05:03:26

Cooking With Gas

Here at TasteStalkr, we enjoy our html, css, and javscript. In the perfect world everything we could want to make could be done using these three. Ultimately we realize that is impossible so that is why we employ a little flash.

You might have wondered what powers our music playing ability, or mayby not. The power behind us is this ...

2007-12-03 15:21:19

We're off the to the races

Thats right, we launched a couple of days ago. I have patiently been waiting for the digg effect, or getting slashdotted. Only that hasn’t happend.

I sent emails out to my friends, they like it. I tried to get in contact with some mp3 bloggers, only one response. Mayby I am just jumping the gun and they are all ...

2007-12-01 16:31:33

Whats This All About

We started this site as an experiment. Alex, the founder, read alot of mp3 bogs. Then one day he found The Hype Machine. It sparked his imagination. We all started talking, what if you tracked all the conversations about music on the web. Thats when we created TasteStalkr.

Our first version or launch is mostly for us. We needed to ...

2007-12-01 01:05:25

Our Guiding Ideas

1. Because We Love It

Our number one reason for making this site. If we’re not having fun, your not having any fun.

2. Remix

We blend great ideas to create something new. Whatever we blend, we will credit it.

3. Open

Currently a misunderstood idea, but we think we get it. Anything you put in, you can get ...