Major Music Update! Headup version 1.04 release notes

July 9th, 2009, By talk

Organize your music and create playlists NOW with the new ‘Headup Music’!

The Headup Music Player

The Headup Music Player

This new release of Headup was dedicated mostly to improving Headup’s included music player.

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Besides giving the player a shiny new skin we’ve improved functionality so that now it enables you to organize your music and create playlists
…oh, and we did some with bug fixes too… ; )

ROCK ON!

Release notes

  • Compatible with the new Mozilla Firefox 3.5.
  • You can now customize the design for highlighted terms.
  • Enhanced special highlights.

New Site

Headup has a brand new website that’s been live for just under two weeks.
Check it out ! We’d love to hear your feedback…

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Introducing "Headup Music" and "Social Annotations" – Headup version 1.0.3 release notes

April 22nd, 2009, By eitanb

These past few months we’ve gotten a lot of requests and feedback relating to Headup’s music features. So much so that we decided to perform a major overhaul that resulted in the creation of Headup Music – Headup’s very own media player.

Headup Music

Launching Headup's music player

Launching Headup's music player

Headup Music is a player designed to boost the way you listen to music online by leveraging Headup’s semantic web engine. Use it to:

  • Get your regular music fix from a variety of free sources like YouTube, Seeqpod, Blip.fm, etc.
  • Listen to automatically personalized playlists of your favorite artists generated from your Facebook and/or Last.Fm profiles.
The Headup music player interface

The Headup music player interface

We’re very excited about this addition to Headup and would love to get your feedback so please check it out and tell us what you think.

Annotation news – Social Annotation

We’ve made several modifications to Headup’s annotation capabilities.

  • Headup now annotates a wider selection of names and terms.
  • Social annotation:
    • Terms that have personal relevance to you receive a highlight annotation.
    • A tool tip notifying you about the personal relevance will appear when the term is hovered over.
Headup's new Social Annotation shows how the Web relates to YOU

Headup's new Social Annotation shows how the Web relates to YOU

More release notes

  • Improvement of the data provided for companies and movies.
  • Small UI and stability fixes.

What you can expect next…

  • Headup’s next generation user interface is still in the oven.
  • Improvements to the music player.
  • Annotation control – we’re working on enabling you to control the appearance of Headup’s annotations.

…And on to other news:

We’re on a road-trip
Yesterday marked the first day of this years “Israeli Web Tour“, originally launched in 2006 by the CICC in partnership and collaboration with Google, PayPal, Yahoo!, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook. We were fortunate enough to get invited to this year’s tour and are looking forward to meeting the representatives of the participating industry leaders.

We’re on the air
This evening at 6:00 pm EST we’re scheduled to participate in RSS Ray’s online radio show to talk about Marketing on the Semantic Web.

We’ve moved!
Last but not least if anyone wants to come and visit us, please note we’ve relocated our offices from Tel Aviv to Shefayim.
Less traffic, less smog, more birds, and I can see the Mediterranean sea from my window (if I lean half my body out the window and crane my neck to the point of risking breaking it… ; )

Got something to say?

Comments? Questions? Requests? Declarations of your undying love?

Add’em all in the comments below
… and as always, we try to be responsive on Twitter – @Headup

Until next time… : )

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Sexy release notes – Headup 1.0.2 – "The Music Wars"

April 6th, 2009, By eitanb

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... ; )

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.

Got something to say?

Have comments? questions? requests? – add’em in the comments below…

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Why headup is a browser add-on and not a website

December 22nd, 2008, By talk
As a browser add-on we're always available

As an add-on we're always available

Recently we’ve been asked by quite a few users and pro-bloggers:

“Why is headup a browser extension and not an website?”

It’s actually a very good question especially since our current version only works with Firefox therefore limiting us to servicing only the Firefox user community.

A method to the madness

The reason we chose to be an add-on is related to our mission of giving our users a truly semantic web experience that is related to the content they are browsing, but is entirely independent of the mechanism displaying it. Choosing to be a browser extension, or “add-on”, frees us from the restrictions inherent in traditional page based web browsing, and allows us to concentrate on realizing for our users a truly semantic web experience.

Travel without moving – Browsing without leaving the page

In Dune, Frank Herbert’s visionary science fiction novel, Guild Navigators move spaceships through space in a process described as “Travel without moving”. We can’t offer you this experience yet, however thanks to the fact that we are a browser add-on, we can let you browse a wealth of content that interests you, without ever leaving your page of origin. Check out this video to get a better understanding of the headup experience:

SemantiNet Introducing: headup from SemantiNet Ltd on Vimeo.

Well that’s all for today. As always feel free to contact me via @headup on twitter, or directly (miked[at]semantinet[dot]com) for headup invitations.

: )

All the best,

Mike

Creative Marketing – headup.com

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