Seeing Aweditorium, the direction they've taken makes all the more sense to me. The game elements in thesixtyone and the mini-map in Aweditorium trigger something really nostalgic in me. It will be interesting to watch these elements converge between the two services. I just wish I had the hardware to enjoy this.
I'd like to see how many artists they lost after the redesign. There is a thriving Facebook group (about 230 active users) of ex-t61 users that are lamenting about the fact that there isn't another music site like the original t61.
I can't use the site anymore and even old.thesixtyone.com is gimped way more than the site was before the new update, I go on once every couple months to see if the site is improving but not much has changed since the big redesign and it is so hard to find music that I just gave up.
If somebody built a site like the original t61, you would find yourself with several hundred dedicated artists immediately.
Have we forgotten that 3g connections aren't wired broadband connections? All just for a page that links us to iTunes so that we can download an app. It looks lovely, but I thought the site was broken and only saw the first image because I put the iPad down whilst I checked on the PC... only by putting it down did I inadvertently wait long enough to load the background image.
For something this cool, it deserves an original, less-descriptive, feel-good name.
TheSixtyOne is a fantastic name.