Headup

We’re seeing some interesting times in the online music industry.
Last week Seeqpod announced they were shutting down their free API, Last.fm has been publishing mixed messages, Deezer is suddenly big(?).

We reacted to Seeqpod’s announcement by changing gears over to iMeem & YouTube.

Like every change there are drawbacks and benefits. iMeem provides songs with excellent audio quality and YouTube has an expansive library. Sure you get an occasional cheesy cover or offbeat lipsync, but all in all we think it’s a change for the better.

Sexy Release Notes (Yes, we know it's a cheap shot... ; )

In unrelated news…

We’re happy to finally be out of the Mozilla sandbox. Headup is an “Experimental” addon no longer.
We’re a “Public” add-on baby so let the good times roll…
If you’ve just joined us from Mozilla’s site – Welcome Aboard!

Also new in this version:

1. Reduced memory consumption.
2. New and improved personalization process – check “Settings” to give it a spin.
3. Sleeker installation – for that smooth Silverlight sensation.
4. Fix for false data brought over due to change in Twitter API.
5. Many minor bug fixes:
   • Highlight & Click behavior fix.
   • Headup reload no longer required after hitting “back” in the browser.
   • Geolocation for Twitter fix.
   • Repaired a few broken links and missing titles in the data we show about people, music and movies.
   • Annotation fixes.
   • Improved “related products”.

What’s cooking:

• A new UI is in the oven, with supercalifrajalistic streamlined user experience and phantasmagoric underlying next-gen architecture.
• We’re hard at work on our annotations. Soon we’ll be annotating even more interesting stuff, regardless of whether it’s a link or not.
• You can expect to see a brand new shiny music player in your Headup future, so stay tuned.

Thanks everybody

Thanks everybody for the continued feedback and support, and a big hug to all the good people who bothered to write reviews for us on the Mozilla site – it’s all very much appreciated. If you aren’t already, you’re welcome to chat with us @headup.

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