2008 was an exciting year for Bandzoogle.
Four new Zooglers joined the team - Stacey and Allison are our new support gurus. They have helped thousands of bands make the most of the Bandzoogle system. Nick has taken over the design end. He defined a new look for Bandzoogle and is now helping to sketch out our new template system. Dave is a talented programmer from the UK. In just a few months he has made major contributions to the Bandzoogle system with features like newsletter templates and a new help system.
We also added some major updates. The biggest changes were ones you can't see. We've added more backup systems, monitoring, more reliable database and file server infrastructure. Not very exciting, but they keep your site running without interruption. Some updates you can see are:
We have some great new features planned for next year, and will post about them soon. Here's wishing everyone a happy and successful 2009!
POSTED BY CHRIS, December 31, 2008 | 18 comments
Amazing story of indie music success
Bandzoogle member Corey Smith is an amazing story of "do it yourself" indie success.
The strength of his songs -- and his strategy of giving them away in order to build his fanbase -- has resulted in Corey sellling out gigs across the country. Bob Lefsetz has a great feature on Corey Smith this week.
Visit Corey's site at http://www.coreysmith.com. We'll post an interview with him in the New Year.
POSTED BY CHRIS, December 19, 2008 | 19 comments
POSTED BY CHRIS, December 16, 2008 | 15 comments
John Lennon Songwriting Content deadline
The John Lennon Songwriting Contest, one of the largest and most respected contests open to musicians is nearing its entry deadline. Submissions are due by December 15th for your chance to win... $20,000 courtesy of Maxell Corporation for the Song Of The Year, and More prizes from Apple, Mackie, Crate, Ampeg, Godin Guitars, Roland, Edirol, Boss, Discmakers, Musicians Friend, Audio Technica, Ableton, Sibelius and performance opportunities at The 2010 NAMM show and the 2009 Vans Warped Tour. Go to WWW.JLSC.COM to enter and for a complete list of prizes.
POSTED BY CHRIS, December 10, 2008 | 0 comments
POSTED BY CHRIS, December 09, 2008 | 12 comments
You've probably already seen Dave's work in the control panel -- he built the mailing list template system and help search in the past few weeks.
Expect more great new features to be added in the coming weeks with help from Dave!
POSTED BY CHRIS, December 08, 2008 | 11 comments
"Unique Visitors" are also more accurate now. Previously, we relied on IP addresses to determine unique visitors (this is how most stats programs work). Because some large internet providers like AOL share IP addresses for groups of people, it could result in inaccurate unique visitor numbers.
As per many member requests, we stopped logging all your visits that happen via the control panel (you can still test stats by going directly to your URL though).
Next, we improved the speed of displaying stats, so you can see visitors as soon as 5 minutes after they hit your page.
Finally, we updated the location database, so going forward, you will have fewer "unknown" visitors (this update will only take effect at the end of the week).
The net result will be that some members have reduced traffic numbers (especially those of you with guestbook pages hit by spammers). We figure it is better to provide you with the most accurate numbers rather than just boost your ego with inflated, but inaccurate visits. Let us know what you think!
POSTED BY CHRIS, December 02, 2008 | 56 comments
