The Jamglue Blog

Embedded player

As you may have seen in Gautam’s recent round-up, we’ve finally turned on our embedded player for everybody!

Unlike YouTube’s monolithic embedded player, we’ve focused on flexibility by exposing the raw elements to people sharing mixes and tracks. This allows you to fully tweak and style our player however you want.

We’ve also been working hard to make sure that the player stays fast and that embedded music in even very popular blogs will not impact the performance of our main site.

We’re still tweaking the default look and coping with different embedding policies (don’t be so scared, FOX Interactive!), but please try it and let us know what you think.

November 7th, 2006 Casey M.R. Muller

Featured Jams

One of the best parts of working on Jamglue is listening to the music that our users are making. Our web community is still in its infancy, and we’re constantly working to improve our tools, but our stellar beta users have already produced some great work that I’d like to show off:

The Ballad of Haggity WagBag by fluffy
This is a feel-good mix with a spoken story over some sweet Rhodes piano.

tyson is funked by divya
This mix puts some great Mike Tyson and James Bond clips over a funk track.

Jungle remix by mfelkins
This is a sweet jungle mix that a user in California made using tracks contributed by users in Seattle and Calgary.

desert by Juna
This one really feels like a movie soundtrack to me. Lots of interesting sounds come together to paint a vivid image.

What do all these mixes have in common? They’re catchy, and they were made by the combined efforts of people who don’t know each other! I’m really excited to see that people are collaborating freely and implicitly, without having to coordinate with one another. And you can continue the trend; if you hear something you like, try remixing it to make your own version.

This is intended to be the first of many posts that highlight cool new Jamglue music. Stay tuned for more!

November 7th, 2006 gautam