Muni-bird Tee

We’ve gone all out in our latest design, air-loom labels, inside printing, on sustainable cotton tees from American Apparel.

Bird Band on Black

By popular demand!

Band Hoodies

Just in time for the chilly SF summertime.

Bird Band on Asphalt

Limited Edition. Get ‘em while they last!

Sticker Packs

Stick ‘em Up!

Looking for the shirt that started it all?

Lastly, the Ninja’s are about to run out and we’ve been trying to decide if we should do another run. We have a handful of them left so get one while we have them. If you think we should to another run of these, please leave us a comment.

Meanwhile, we’ve seen Songbird t-shirts showing up all over the place:
Over 8 million — way to go!, Pre-July 4th BBQ!.

If you have a Songbird t-shirt or have seen a Songbird, leave us a comment and if you’re on flickr please add your shot to our Songbird Spotting group! If you don’t have a Songbird t-shirt yet, head to the merch table for a few fun things to wear and show your support for our project.

Birdwatchers, as you’ve noticed, we recently made our old forums read-only. While they served us well over the years, we were in need of an upgrade.

In their stead, we will be using Google Groups for our developer forum. As some of you already know, Google Groups provides a simple way to keep up with new and on-going discussions without distraction.

For our user community we’re going to be using Get Satisfaction. Get Satisfaction provides a quick and easy way to give us feedback on Songbird. You can ask a question, share an idea, report a problem, or start a discussion, as well as search previously posted topics.

Tips for posting on Get Satisfaction:

• Always search to see if someone else has already posted your idea, problem, or topic.
• If you find an existing topic, please add your comments there. Get Satisfaction also has a great facility to vote for ideas and track multiple users with the same question. Look for the ‘I have this question, too!’, the ‘I have this problem too!’, and the ‘I like this idea’ buttons.
• Be as detailed as you can. In order to file a bug, we need to know your operating system, Songbird version, and detailed steps to reproduce your bug. If you’re filing a feature suggestion, the same is true, tell us exactly what you want so there’s no guess work later on.
• If you’re accustomed to using tags, please tag your posts, that’ll help us organize and find them later.

What is Bugzilla?
A lot of the time, you’ll find that we’ve already got a bug or feature suggestion filed in Bugzilla, our bug and feature tracker, for something you are inquiring about. Bugzilla is not a forum, it’s a software life-cycle tool; the engineering and product teams use it to track the progress of the release. If you’re interested in following the progress of these bugs or features, you will need a Bugzilla account. If you don’t have a free Bugzilla account, signing up is quick and easy and will allow you to share your feedback directly with the development team.

If you’re going to file a bug or feature suggestion, please always search before you file, and provide adequate detail.

To track the activity on a Bugzilla entry via email:

1. Going to the “people” box in the upper right hand corner of the page.
2. Add your email in the “add cc” box
3. Scroll down and hit commit.

We’ll be checking GetSatisfaction Monday thru Friday and we’ll try to respond as quickly as we can. If you don’t see a response to your post, fear not, we’re most likely tracking down an answer or, in over our heads in work! Meanwhile, to those who have already posted in our new forums, thank you for the feedback, your comments and suggestions provide much needed detail for our product and engineering teams and help us make more informed decisions.

Attention bird-watchers! It’s Firefox Download Day 2008! Congratulations to the Moz team on a great release. Check out Mozilla’s wonderfully fun new site and download Firefox 3 while you’re there.

With daily activity around the music industry, more than a few of us out there think the industry is facing a era of change. Digital media exchange is on the rise. While many of us work on ways to change the landscape, others keenly watch the trends that will shape our future.

Our friends at the Institute for the Future think about the future of media and how new technology is forcing the hands of the currently entrenched players in the market. They have recently noted Songbird as part of trends toward a more open media landscape. Read their thoughts on Songbird.

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with some green Clover feathers for Songbird.

Also for spring time, Sakura feathers for Songbird spring fever.

A while back I blogged about the ability to use external urls for feathers and posted my experiment. Lo and behold, a Background add-on has been created to help you do this without having to write a single line of code. Thanks NeoAlchemy, I hope you enjoy your Songbird t-shirt!

Meanwhile, crickets for feedback on the lastest update of the add-ons section of the ‘nest… I can’t believe you are all so easily satiated!

While the Top 40 continues, I wanted to get an idea of how everyone likes the latest update to Addons.songbirdnest.com. We’ve been working on a more thorough .xpi validator on the server, and while we’re getting great feedback from the Top 40 for the bird, I have yet to see feedback for the website.

We’re also doing some much needed re-factoring of the front end as well. Thanks to Jim, gone will be the days that the add-ons site looks different in safari, ie, and ff! As we go through the clean up, this will be our opportunity to make any tweaks to our pages. If you’ve got a burning bug or have a feature suggestion, please let us know.

Meanwhile we’ll be working to flesh out a roadmap for Songbirdnest.com to enhance our developer tools as well as our core user experiences with the bird. If you’ve got something you’re dying to see on the nest, now is the time to chirp.

Koshi.

Birdwatchers, ‘birders, builders, and bird friends,

Thank you for making 2007 a great year for Songbird. Your continued support has helped make our project a success. Your growing numbers are also a sign of our growing popularity, keep spreading the word! Meanwhile, we’ll be hard at work at improving both the ‘bird and the ‘nest for your Open Media Web consuming pleasure.

Much thanks and a Happy New Year,
Koshi.

Featherers,

Some of you have already discovered our new developer add-on and have been busy making new feathers. If you haven’t yet, you should also install Songbird Developer Tools, watch my Zombies vs Ninjas Feathers how-to slideshow on flickr, and get your new feathers published for the world to try.

Meanwhile, the bird builders threw down this weekend to help get the critical bug list as small as they could. That means a new blessed build later today and hopefully a solid RC2 for you this week. ‘Til then, have fun making new feathers and we’ll talk again later today.

Koshi.