Leopard

Leopard (aka OS X 10.5), the much anticipated new Mac OS from Apple, was released today. Unfortunately our plug-in is causing iTunes to crash for users with Leopard installed. We’re working as fast as we can to make a compatible and stable version. Stay tuned for updates and fixes…

See What People are Listening to with myMusic’s Charts

Wouldn’t it be great if you could see the best songs from all of your friends? Now you can! The myMusic application just added charts. You can now see the top tracks and top artists of your friends, your networks and everyone on Facebook.

On the myMusic home page, there is a short chart that shows the top 3 tracks and artists of your friends and everybody. Click the “See All” from there or click “My Charts” on the top of the page to see the full charts. From the list of songs, you can easily pop out the playlist into the Popout player and sit back and hear all the tracks that your friends love. Check it out by clicking here

Showing the tracks from your network is also a great way to see what people around you are actually listening to. If you’re in school, you can now see the top tracks of your entire campus. If you working in NYC, you can easily see the top track last week in all of New York. And, of course, each time you find a track you can play it right there, send it to a friend, or post a comment

Read the Feed

Today we launched a new version of our Facebook My Music app homepage, that includes a news feed of what your friends are up to musically.

In one glance now, you can see what’s going on among your friends musically, not just on Facebook, but in iTunes, on their iPod (and soon from other sources as well). Here are the different news feed “stories” that we include now:

• When you receive a musical poke
• When a friend send a musical poke
• When a friend receives a musical poke
• When a friend installs the application
• When a friend writes on an aritst wall
• When a friend’s top artist of the week changes
• When a friend’s top song of the week changes
• A friend’s first play of the day
• When a friend creates a playlist
• When a friend creates a power hour playlist

And we have a lot more story types in the works, too:

• Top 5 tracks and artists of the week of all friends
• Top 5 tracks, artists of the week of network
• When a friend writes on album wall
• When a friend writes on track wall
• Top track, artist of lists of friends (as soon as FB releases it)
• When a friend changes their musical status
• When a friend tags a track
• When a friend bookmarks a playlist
• One of your playlists gets bookmarked

Eventually too we’d like to have users be able to customize which stories they have in their feed, and even create specific story types (I’d like to have news on “Kayne West”).

Lastly, we can put this feed anywhere: can expose it as a RSS feed that a user can consume wherever. Would you be interested in that? Is there any other suggestions you might have?

Hope you enjoy it!

Product Development Manager

We’re also looking for a development stud. Someone who has great coding skills and great user experience vision all in one. If you’re interested, contact us at: jobs [at] qloud [dot] com.

Position: Product Development Manager

Qloud is a rapidly growing Internet music service committed to transforming the consumer music experience by combining social communities with music content. Qloud is backed by some of the Internet’s leading investors and is prepared to become the Internet’s leading music service. Qloud is looking for a talented individual with both software development skills and product vision to help build the service. This individual will both conceive the user experience and build it, working in all phases of the product development cycle.

Responsibilities

+ Conceiving the Qloud user experience
+ Architecting and designing the Qloud system
+ Managing individual development projects throughout their lifecycle
+ Managing teams of software engineers
+ Writing code
+ Working with the leadership team to help drive our technical roadmap and future strategy
+ Examples of Qloud projects include:
- Flash-based streaming media
- Aggregated user actions feeds
- Integration with numerous web services and social network development platforms
- Development of internal and external facing API methods
- Advertising systems

Qualifications

+ Demonstrated experience developing web-based products in a LAMP in environment
+ Understanding of consumer web services
+ Outstanding knowledge of web-based programming languages including:
- PHP
- Javacript
- Flash/Actionscript
- HTML / CSS
+ Interest in social networking sites
+ Knowledge and interest in digital media (music and video)

Work Environment

+ Qloud is very intense about its mission: we are determined to become the best music experience in the world

+ Qloud is very demanding about team performance: all of us have to regularly achieve our goals and produce excellence

+ Qloud is very flexible and open-minded about how that is achieved:

- Spending the necessary time collaborating with the team in person
- Getting personal tasks done wherever and whenever it works best for the individual
- “Face time” does not exist at Qloud
- Taking our work very seriously while not taking ourselves too seriously; having a casual, friendly, respectful work environment

Qloud is located in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, across the street from the Discovery Channel, steps away from Metro and commuter rail

Contact

Please send resume, cover letter and range of salary requirements to jobs [at] qloud [dot] com.

Looking for a Director of Ops

We’re growing here at Qloud, and as we do, managing our back end is becoming harder and harder. We have a great system team in place of DBAs and System Engineers. But now we’re looking for an experience Director of Ops to own and run the whole show.

If you’re interested, please contact us at jobs [at] qloud [dot] com. Please find the job description below:

Position: Director of Operations

Qloud is a rapidly growing Internet music service committed to transforming the consumer music experience by combining the social graph with music content. Qloud is backed by some of the Internet’s leading investors and is prepared to become the Internet’s leading music service. Qloud is looking for a Director of Operations to own and build the infrastructure to support the service.

Responsibilities

+ Ensuring that the Qloud system is able to provide performance necessary to satisfy a rapidly growing user base

+ Designing the database, system and hardware architecture to meet product requirements and scale to meet user demand

+ Identifying potential issues before they happen and developing the system to avoid future bottlenecks

+ Managing the implementation of system projects through a team of six (and growing) system and database administrators

+ Managing relationship with key vendors including hosting and hardware providers

+ Monitoring and ensuring the day to day uptime and performance of the system, including responses to system outages

+ Working with the leadership team to help drive our technical roadmap and future strategy

+ Being responsible for the entire spectrum of operations: from high-level design of very sophisticated systems to day-to-day troubleshooting of issues

Qualifications

+ Demonstrated experience managing operations for a high traffic consumer service

+ Experience designing and scaling high traffic database environments

+ Experience managing a team of system and database professionals

+ Outstanding knowledge of web system technologies, including:

- Linux
- Networking & security technologies
- Hardware and hosting technologies
- Database technologies, particularly MySQL

+ Interest and skills across the full range of web operations: from high-level design to day-to-day troubleshooting

Work Environment

+ Qloud is very intense about its mission: we are determined to become the best music experience in the world

+ Qloud is very demanding about team performance: all of us have to regularly achieve our goals and produce excellence

+ Qloud is very flexible and open-minded about how that is achieved:

- Spending the necessary time collaborating with the team in person
- Getting personal tasks done wherever and whenever it works best for the individual
- “Face time” does not exist at Qloud
- Taking our work very seriously while not taking ourselves too seriously; having a casual, friendly, respectful work environment

Qloud is located in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, across the street from the Discovery Channel, steps away from Metro and commuter rail

Contact

Please send resume, cover letter and range of salary requirements to jobs [at] qloud [dot] com