Just wrapped up a revamp of the Setting/Profile page on Prodigem. The old interface was clunky-- the new one conforms to our new user interface (give lots of detailed error messages) goodness. As well, it will allow us to easily add new twiddles and knobs to turn as we see fit in the future. The first new knob allows you to specify whether you'd like to have Prodigem update notices emailed to you so you can keep up to date should we decide to email the world. By default this is turned OFF in everyone's account as this seemed like the right thing to do. Gotta respect the opt-in default.

But I do plan on shortly sending out one email to everyone to at least let them know that it's set to off ... of course promising to never email them directly again unless they turn it back on. Which of course everyone should.

By Gary Lerhaupt, 11:15 PM in prodigem | Comments (0)  

I've been throwing around the idea of making Prodigem Starter Accounts (currently $1) just free. We haven't had any piracy problems to date and making things more accessible would help to get things rolling a bit more. Though, these new "Preview" accounts might not come with the ability to sell content. Not sure.

We're on the verge of making available some great new funtionality and I wouldn't want to keep people from it. :)

DEVELOPING LATE... (or whatever that means)

By Gary Lerhaupt, 12:05 PM in prodigem | Comments (0)  

After seeing a BoingBoing mention publicizing Creative Commons licensed CDs, I'm glad to now say that tr^ad has put their first release on Prodigem.

It's the full CD available for 99 cents. To get a feel for the music, you can download selected tracks from them for free to preview it out. On second thought, they decided that an album named 'Public Domain' should be free so they've made it free. The Prodigem release includes 320k MP3 versions of all tracks on the album and front and back covers in high resolution for easy printing.

By Gary Lerhaupt, 12:10 PM in prodigem | Comments (0)