News section in Alpha / Public profile Beta will Dec. 08
Just unfurled the latest update to the store, the major treats in store are the new profile page for users, and the first version of the news section. Perhaps nothing that would give santa a boner (if he can get it up these days), but definitely worth a look in for anyone using the store :D
The news section is up in Alpha stealth mode, currently you won't find any links to it on the public interface, but our chums and labels have been posted the secret urls to get fiddling with. The idea of the news section is to provide a nice and simple way for our users/labels/artists/monkey friends to get the latest news about the music scenes we represent up on the store. So it's a user-generated-content lovefest, as anyone with a Digital-Tunes login can start sending us news for the store. Just like our releases however, we are moderating this to get rid of the spam and other crap. As well as the more obvious release reviews for upcoming reviews, people can post event reviews with embedded YouTube movies, or mix tapes with embedded mp3 mixes, or basically anything as long as we think it will be interesting to our users.
The public profile is a shiny little addition, for example my profile is at http://www.digital-tunes.net/user_profile/william_coates. For those paranoid folk its easy to turn it off, but by default you can see the users basic info as well as their favourite Artists, Labels and the latest purchases made, so it's a nice way to show people what you are into at the moment. In future we hope to add a feature to browse similar users, in a similar manner to eMusic (but much cooler, obviously).
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