Machine Shop: Hype Machine Team Blog

Darryl Wilkin step on down. You’re the winner on The Hype Is Right!

Enter the contest now! We’ll be giving away another pair of badges Thursday and Friday this week.

Nicole Reber is our first winner selected to receive 2 badges to next week’s CMJ Marathon! Look out for an email to claim your prize. And for the rest of you guys who’ve entered, don’t worry, you’re all eligible for the drawing each day for this entire week. It’s not too late to enter the contest either!

My side project SCHED* launched the official CMJ Marathon Schedule today where you can easily browse over 1200 events and create your own custom schedule. Check out mine here: http://cmj08.sched.org/gtmcknight

Now the really exciting part! If you have a Hype Machine or Last.FM account, you can get show recommendations based on your favorite artists here: http://cmj08.sched.org/suggest!

CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival is taking over NYC October 21-25th. We’re teaming up with Insound to give away a set of 2 badges every day from October 14th through October 17th.

Just head over to the entry form, put in your name and email, and you’re set! We’ll annouce the winners every morning next week.

In case you haven’t been before, it’s pretty much the East Coast’s answer to SXSW. A badge will get you full access to the entire week of concerts, film premieres and even panels (if that’s your thing).

Anthony will be in London, missing all the fun, but I’ll be speaking on a panel on Thursday, Oct 23rd called Web 2.0, Music 2.0, and the Blog Factor. Feel free to come by if you are one of the lucky winners 🙂

New Feature #1: Profile Pics + Info

Finally! You can put a face to your awesome taste in music. To add a profile photo, click the Settings link on the main site, and then click the Picture tab. In the Account tab, you can add your real name, what you’re doing right now, your location and your personal website.
Note: Yes, the default user image is John McCain, so why haven’t you changed it yet?

New Feature #2: Favorite Counts

We’ve added Fav Counts all over the site, so now you can see how many people have favorited a track, and you can even browse the list. We’ve been using this for a few weeks behind the scenes, and it’s been a blast to discover new users this way. You can also browse the Popular page by most favorited (the default is still most played).

New Feature #3: Live Song Updates

On all pages, if we know there are updates in the Machine, we now push a friendly little reminder: “There are new songs. Refresh to see them,” so you won’t miss a beat.

The response to our latest release of shirts has been amazing. We sold out most of the stock pretty quickly. Fortunately, we just received our reprints of both the Green Phonograph and White Mainframe shirts, so go clothe yourself with music.

Thanks to Hype Machine user Dmitry Kichenko for the amazing product shot. Be sure to check out his flickr, as he is a very talented photographer. If you have any merch photos you’d like to share leave a link in the comments!

ps. Swedish User Meetup tonight!! So excited!