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Earbits is back online

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I cannot wait to share the whole story. Who knew all of the upside in starting Earbits would be in the movie rights?

> I cannot wait to share the whole story.

So do so :) I can't wait to read it. The White Knight is definitely going to see some goodwill from this.

> Who knew all of the upside in starting Earbits would be in the movie rights?

Teaser :)

Did you manage to keep all employees in-board?

We had to make cuts earlier in the year. Too early to say what we'll be able to do in this area just yet.

Congrats on coming back from the grave! If you need any help on the hosting/caching/etc. side let me know.

Wow, that is a heartwarming sight.

I hope your new super-backer is able to step forward soon, best of luck Joey and team. It was hard to watch you guys going down that way but seems prayers have been answered. :)

Please be Derek Sivers, please be Derek Sivers.. :-)

OOhhh a fun name to throw out and speculate about! I'll try to hold back, but thanks for this. :)

Now that is absolutely awesome news. Congratulations to Joey & the team, all is well that ends well. I especially like the word 'indefinitely'. Super curious about the backstory to this.

Dear earbits blogmaster (and all other blogmasters that are guilty of this). Why can't I click on the earbits logo and have you take me to earbits.com? It took me 3 full minutes to find the link to your main website from your blog. I've never heard of your site before and this was my entry. I didn't know it was a music streaming app so I didn't think to click "listen now" to expect to be taken to the main site.

Yeah, our blog is unfortunately neglected. We have tried a number of ways to make it more intuitive but it really just needs an entire overhaul.

Actually. In your defense I've clicked "listen now" and been happily jamming out for an hour now. You're doing great at finding great music for me. Just keep on doing that. :)

Awesome! Thanks for listening!

Hey! I agree with the feedback. I'll share a tip that might have saved you 2 minutes and 55 seconds. In the URL bar of your browser, you'll see something like blog.SITE.com/more-stuff/ Most of the time, you'll find what you're looking for at SITE.com.

Great tip. I will keep that in mind next time I go surfing on the world wide web.

Is this sarcasm?

He clearly knew that earbits.com was the desired destination, he's just pointing out how un-intuitive the process of getting there is for a potential new user.

You know, someone who might have wanted to try-out/explore the service after reading a blog post.

Yes! This!

Please also add a small paragraph to the top of your blog post with who the actual heck you are.

"Earbits is an online music streaming service without any ads or subscription fees" or something tied into the first sentence goes a massive way.... not everyone knows who your startup is!

This is awesome! Earbits is a great service for artists and listeners

Dude!! You're a beast!!

Once this is over, I want to help you with the idea you told me about over Skype!! All the best Joey!!!!!! Crush it! :)

Awesome to hear! For me, the world definitely got a bit darker when I heard earbits was getting shut down. So, congrats on the comeback :).

Awesome news! I was a regular user until the repeats bummed me out. Hope it gets better from here on.

That's all a matter of technical resources, and we are aiming to solve that problem now very soon. More news coming!

Congrats to Joey and team! This is great news for music.

Congrats guys! Glad that you're back and fired up.

kick ass indefinitely!!!

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