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thesixtyone is Digg for new music, a social filter for the tsunami of indie creativity hitting the web. Like Digg, the homepage is community driven. Listeners who sign up are given a daily number of "hearts" they can use to vote on songs they like. If songs you heart become popular, you earn reputation points, level up, and unlock community abilities. Listeners can also earn achievement badges for various activities, like hearting songs in under-explored genres or reaching a playcount milestone. All tracks are fully streamable and can be organized in tag-based playlists. To lubricate the experience, they've invented an ajax navigation system that allows listeners to enjoy seamless audio playback across pageviews.
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| Feb 25, 2010 | This Game Is Fixed! Democratized Content v. Voting Rings | TheSixtyOne Seeks to Solve the Problem In an interesting move against those who would manipulate traffic on the social web, music site TheSixtyOne is looking for a programmer who can crack the codes of voting rings. On sites such as Digg, R... |
| Jan 23, 2010 | Thesixtyone Unveils a Gorgeous Redesign, Users Predictably Revolt | Music discovery site thesixtyone unveiled a radical—and gorgeous—redesign a couple days ago. The redesign presents a single, lush full-screen photograph as each song plays, while smaller snapshots fade in and out screensaver-style. The cont... |
| Aug 22, 2009 | Your Guide To Music On The Web – Part #1 | I’m a Web fanatic, I admit. But you probably already knew that… My work environment has been completely web based for years now. The same applies to my music. Like many people, I used to download music from Kazaa or eMule (Yeah, I know some... |
| May 19, 2009 | Last Chance For The Old Recording Industry… But Plenty Of Excitement In The New Music Industry | I spent Monday at the wonderful SanFran MusicTech Summit and I have to admit that I came away quite optimistic. You may recall earlier this year that my takeaway from MidemNet was how optimistic people were becoming — but how much the old s... |
| Mar 18, 2009 | Y Combinator Demo Day: Simple cloud management, real-time energy monitoring, and more | If anyone’s feeling depressed about the future of Silicon Valley innovation, I’d suggest sneaking into the demo day tomorrow at incubator Y Combinator‘s Mountain View, Calif. office. Watching a bunch of smart, ambitious entrepreneurs show o... |
| Mar 18, 2009 | Y Combinator Demo Day Spring 2009 | The 16 startups from Y Combinator’s spring session presented their ideas and initial products at Y Combinator’s Silicon Valley office this afternoon. Of the 16 startups in this group, 8 have already launched, 6 are in the process of launchi... |
| Mar 9, 2009 | Thesixtyone Is Building a Digg For Indie Music | The concept of building a Digg for music has been tried before (see Contrastream or iJigg), but a music streaming site called thesixtyone is the closest I’ve seen so far to getting the formula right. It features only about 50,000 tracks sel... |
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FAQ about Recurious
What has the press written about Recurious?
Parsers VC has collected 8 articles mentioning Recurious, among them “This Game Is Fixed! Democratized Content v. Voting Rings” (Feb 25, 2010) and “Thesixtyone Unveils a Gorgeous Redesign, Users Predictably Revolt” (Jan 23, 2010).
Is Recurious still active?
Yes, Recurious is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jul 21, 2020.