Comments on: MOG Launches Embeddable MP3 Player

By: iLike Growing Quickly, Still Massively Trailing Last.fm

iLike Growing Quickly, Still Massively Trailing Last.fm — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 07:54:35 +0000

[...] company, along with MOG, will present at the Digital Music Forum East conference in New York tomorrow. Together the two [...]

By: Kesten

Kesten — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:35:48 +0000

No trouble with the stats on my page. Digging Mog-o-matic fully. Checked out Last.fm and it looks like they have some of the same issues you’re talking about. I hope you’ll stick it out bc the MOG community is worth it. The only place I spend what little free time I have online.

By: Kanter Repp

Kanter Repp — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:55:44 +0000

MOG has wonderful potential to fill in the gaps that LastFM leaves - the social side of things, basically.

Unfortunately, at the moment, MOG’s statistics gathering seems to be running into trouble. The support forums are dominated by problems with the Last Song Played widget, which doesn’t seem to be updating for a lot of users. In my own experience, statistics stalled days ago, and a detailed email to the support team (the solution route recommended on site) has gone unanswered.

MOG is friendly and its social elements are attractive, but if it can’t do what LastFM does so effortlessly (track the stats) then it’s going to lose users, or at least cease to lure users over from LastFM.

By: adam

adam — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 20:33:28 +0000

been using the web now for 10+ years and Mog is the first socnet site that I even looked twice at. Almost seven months here now, I have found the community here, though not of massive sizes, is very tight knit and personable and supportive, for the most part. We all know each other, it seems. word to that. Mog or death peoples!
lester

By: AJ

AJ — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 15:38:11 +0000

MOG has the best community of music fans on the Internet. This new music player lets the artists on MOG share their music with the rest of us. Totally wicked.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 01:12:49 +0000

You can’t keep up with these blasted music social sites. You think oh I’ve got the right one but then you cant help trying out a new one as a name arises from Techcrunch.

They have took the time creating them, I might as well give them my time to test them out.

-Kyle

By: RAy@BaSs/vOcAlS(R.G.M.)

RAy@BaSs/vOcAlS(R.G.M.) — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:04:33 +0000

Mog RoCkS ruLeS…It’S CoOL…NoT CoOl…A CoNTrODrICsHuN…CoMe SeMs’…CoMe MOG…ef’ YER CAN HANDLE THE mogo SphERE!!!…

|x^[o> aaaaahhhhh…….

By: Manager Assistant

Manager Assistant — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:32:47 +0000

I am a long time Pandora supporter. There seems to be a lot of news surrounding last.fm and these other music sites. One of these days when I fond some time I will have to check them out.

It would be nice if these services could somehow stream to my pda. Anyone have any advice?

By: david hyman

david hyman — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:08:49 +0000

sorry folks. no linux app for now.

we send out a weekly mog-gazette to members and always unsubscribe our unsubscribers. carmen, feel free to email support@mog.com and we apologize for any issues you have.

By: Elizabeth Robichaud

Elizabeth Robichaud — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:07:54 +0000

MOG is wonderful. It’s a haven for music lovers and bloggers to unite and discuss in a warm and friednly atmosphere. It’s one of the few places on the web where you can truely be (or allow yourself to be) to be “you bad-ass self” (to quote the MOG sign-up page). It where you can proclaim that you love Led Zeppelin, but that Sarah McLachlan is kickass as well. I’ve tried many blogging, friend networking and musical sites and MOG reigns over them all. The MOG-O-Sphere is a stroke of genius - every post, all the time. It beats last.fm and livejournal, hands down.

By: Fred Seibert

Fred Seibert — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:52:02 +0000

David Hyman is smart. MOG is smart. Disclosure: we used to work together; that’s how I know he’s smart. But I *use* MOG, and it works great.

By: glinch

glinch — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:40:38 +0000

?uestlove of The Roots has a MOG profile now:

http://mog.com/qoolquest

By: carmen

carmen — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:40:15 +0000

MusicInterfaces: the biggest difference i can find is its impossible to figure out how to actually use MOG. ive been to their site numerous times out of curiosity since they refuse to unsubscribe me from their ‘daily mog’ email spam, and couldnt figure it out. from the looks of this article, thats because its some proprietary win32/mac app that it wasnt offering me to download since my useragent says linux? and/or a flash app that was a broken box?

last.fm for me..

By: whatevernevermind

whatevernevermind — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:37:29 +0000

I’ve been a mogger since the beginning and think it’s one of the coolest sites around. If you are looking for a social networking site that is centered around music and intelligent discussion, mog is the place. Thanks for shining a little spotlight on the site. It’s a great community.

By: jennifer

jennifer — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:34:08 +0000

mog is totally addictive. i’ve been lurking on the mog-o-sphere for months now and now there are songs?? help me! this is great!!

By: Duncan

Duncan — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:18:54 +0000

And everybody should check out Music Knows too, btw

http://www.musicknows.com

By: Kate

Kate — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:00:55 +0000

I think MOG is the best community hub for music. Check out http://mog.com/mog-o-sphere - which shows every post on MOG. If all you want are stats, last.fm is fine for that. If you want to read great music writing and talk to people about music from Nina Simone to Broken Social Scene, then MOG is the place. You can tag multiple artists with your post, and thanks to the MOG-O-SPHERE, everyone sees what you have to say, not just a small group of people.

By: Brent the Closet Geek

Brent the Closet Geek — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:34:09 +0000

Crap I forgot in the second paragraph to indicate that I’m talking about last.fm

Time for another cup of coffee it seems

By: mrshl

mrshl — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:31:51 +0000

For bands, I think a better option might be http://www.reverbnation.com, which gives you several full-featured flash widgets, including a flash player, interactive calendar and tour map, and mailing list manager.

I’ve not seen you guys cover that site either but you should. For an example of how ReverbNation works, and how well it works with myspace, check out my rock band’s example: http://www.myspace.com/brightmen

As you can see the widgets are robust replacements.

I should note that I don’t work for ReverbNation and other than being a pretty happy customer (it’s free), I don’t have any relationship with them at all.

By: Brent the Closet Geek

Brent the Closet Geek — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:29:34 +0000

The problem I’ve found with MOG is that its tracking application kept crashing or eating 100% of my CPU. This may have just been because I was using the app right after the site launched though. What’s worse is that it didn’t recognize any of my indie stuff. As a podcaster that plays indie stuff almost entirely, this made the service utterly useless to me.

I’m really enjoying the ability to tag multiple artists within the journal posts. This makes for a really great tool for podcasters (I’m starting to post my tracklists/show notes as journals) since the artist’s main page will show journals referring to that artist. This way I can possibly pull in new listeners that see my post in the journal section.

Plus being able to recommend a song to a group of people is great.

The only thing I’m liking about MOG is the widgets on the user page to that’s not enough to keep someone like me around.

My vote goes to last.fm

By: Duncan

Duncan — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:28:51 +0000

Is it me or can you not read the story of mog without signing up for an account?

Bit harsh…

By: john

john — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:33:59 +0000

From what I can tell, last.fm clearly emphasizes user’s playlists and the stats that surround them, not really the blogging aspects, like MOG, which I find to be a lot more interesting. I know that last.fm has a ‘journal’ feature, but no one I know actually uses it since it’s clearly not the central feature of last.fm.

I guess it’s slightly interesting that someone’s top artist of last week was “The Beatles”, but it’s much more interesting to read *why* they happen to like Abbey Road more than the White Album.

I’m a fan of mog, over last.fm.

By: david hyman

david hyman — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:05:55 +0000

MOG definitely means something. in fact, there is a “story of MOG” link on the bottom of each page. http://mog.com/story

is MOG any stranger word than BLOG? : )

By: pallet jack

pallet jack — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:04:30 +0000

I think MOG is cool. I like the community ascpect of it!

- I also liked looking into Ben gibbard’s head -

- Death Cab for Cutie - Rocks!

By: joy

joy — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:42:48 +0000

Nick, have definitely made my day by linking to Ben Gibbard’s MOG page.