Today we launched some subtle yet important changes to the login options, and the way social and music services are connected, to pave the way for future enhancements. Your Blaster.fm account is now more independent and yet more connected at the same time! Existing Users For existing users, there is no difference in the way [...]

Well, we’ve had your feedback, and we’ve looked at costs and programming impact, so here’s what we’re intending to do over the next few weeks…. As ever, we’d be very interested to hear your feedback, via the comments here, or any other route. 1.  Reducing reliance on Last.fm Last.fm is, and will continue to be, [...]

Thanks to everyone who completed the survey – we had some very valuable feedback. Here are some of the themes emerging.  All of these new ideas we will take a serious look at over the coming months. Overall concept:  The basic concept is sound.  You really like the social aspect and recognise that there are [...]

Hi everyone.  My name’s Jon and I’m the new owner of Blaster.fm! I’d like to start out by saying a big thanks to Josh for all he’s done.  I’m really looking forward to carrying this on, and to working with him. New Boy! Like Josh said, I am a partner in a web design agency [...]

Last month, I announced that I would be looking to sell Blaster.fm. This blog post received a fair amount of attention in tech circles, and got my auction in front of the sort of entrepreneurial types who might be interested in doing something with it. Last week, I successfully sold Blaster.fm (for a modest fee) [...]

It was September of last year when I announced a “new blaster.fm is coming”. I’d already begun working on it by that stage, so it’s taken almost a year of my spare time to make it happen, but it’s here. The new, shinier, friendlier, 1.8x more amazing blaster.fm, codenamed Vernon. Here’s a recap of what’s [...]

Wow, it’s been a year since I first registered blaster.fm (and blr.fm for short links). I’ll expand this post with reflections on the year when I have a bit more more time. If you would like to help me cover the costs of registration and hosting for another year, you can donate here. Thanks to [...]

Hello. I wanted to share with you what’s been happening with blaster.fm. We’ve watched closely with how our early users have been using blaster.fm and we’ve been making significant changes to design and functionality. Here are some of the benefits you’ll get from the next version, codenamed “Vernon”: New notifications list Easily play through all [...]

Good news! After months of private beta, blaster.fm is officially launching a public rollout. What we begin Blaster.fm was started with the idea of filling the holes in what last.fm offers. It’s not to say that last.fm is flawed, just that it doesn’t focus on some things we’d really like it to do. It seems [...]