Restless Tumble

Turntable.fm Wins The Internet

I got my first tease of turntable.fm via The Twitters and a techy guy I follow named Chris Sacca:

@sacca: Having a lot of fun on turntable.fm. You and your friends take turns DJ’ing for each other and talking trash.

I immediately wanted in and starting scouring the web for invites or people I could add as Facebook friends to get me in.  No luck, oh well.  Fast forward a couple weeks and I see a post on Tech Cocktail about turntable.fm so I tried my luck again and lo and behold, I’m in!  

This was Monday.  

The last 4 days have been filled, FILLED with music and I can’t get enough.  The service breaks down quite frequently during the day but I don’t care, it actually makes me want it even more when I can’t have it!  Its amazing.  Our entire office is hooked on it too.  We have our own room and have wired both floors to play the music out loud so all can hear (we were all listening on headphones anyways).  Its like our very own radio station that plays amazing music all day long with no commercials.  Also, being fairly new to the company, it has been a great way to learn about people in the office.  Another side effect is that we get to passively advertise Point Inside too!  At least 3 people stopped in the room to listen and asked about us today (yay!)    

The best part about turntable is the music discovery aspect.  For those of you that remember Lukin [no longer around], this is kinda like that but SO much better.  I have found so many new songs over the past 4 days that iTunes and Amazon will probably open up a special section of their stores just for me.  The chat/trash talking is a great feature that fuels the competition side in all of us, as do the lame/awesome buttons, DJ point system, and avatars.  There are so many good things about it and so many ways it can get better.  I’m hoping for some APIs soon as there are so many ways to slice and present this data. In the meantime, come on in to our room and enjoy the music, maybe even spin some tunes!

Room: http://turntable.fm/pointinside