Hello Streema users!

We’ve been working hard on the Streema Facebook application and we now bring you another update on this front.

Following the release of the Streema Profile Tab a few weeks ago, we’ve launched a Settings section which groups all the integrations points for Streema. The Settings section may not sound like something that really kicks ass, or something to throw a party for, but it will really enable you to configure and customize your Streema experience even more. : )

Some of the key features you’ll be able to set up in this section are:

- Profile Box: A box that displays the 5 latest radios played by you in your profile (see image on the left).

- Status Update: Allows you to update your Status on Facebook when you’re listening to a radio.

- Notification Emails: Enables us to notify you via email every time you receive a Recommendation from your friends.

For more information, we encourage you to visit this section, and if you have any doubts, please, don’t hesitate to contact us!

We hope we’ve answered to your feature requests and we look forward to continue developing a better Facebook application.

Stay tuned!

The Streema Team

Hello Streema users!

This time we bring you an update concerning our Facebook application: we’ve just launched a Recommend section! It’s similar to the Messages section on our website, where you can recommend a radio to a friend, write them a message, or do both! The difference is that now, you’ll be able to this with your friends on Facebook. Check it out!

Also, we have two additional Facebook application announcements. The first is that we just released a simple Community section, that for now only displays two familiar charts: “Hottest of the Last Hour” and “Hottest of the Last Week”. The second is that we are working hard to adapt our application to the demands of the new profile redesign, which means we’ll be launching a Profile Application Tab and a Narrow Profile Box among other things.

That’s all for now. Remember, to stay updated with our Facebook application news, become a Fan!

Stay tuned!

The Streema Team

Hello Streema users!

We’re back with our Radio News update and, like it or not, again it’s all about the UK stations. The radio industry over there definitely has many movers and shakers!

First of all, our dear Virgin Radio has been acquired by an Indian media group, and it looks like it might undergo a name change. What do you think about this, should they keep the Virgin name or not? We ran a poll within the team and this was the unanimous result: we’d like it to stay the same!

Secondly, we wanted to let you know that Planet Rock “has been saved“! In our previous Radio News post we mentioned that is was near closing, but thankfully enough, it didn’t. : )

And last but not least, in case you’ve missed the Glastonbury Festival, you should listen to BBC Radio 1 and Q Radio during the next few days, as both stations are broadcasting the best of this year’s edition.

That’s all for now, hope you’ve enjoyed our latest bits of Radio News. Stay tuned!

The Streema Team

PS: Once again, thanks Cymon Humphries for providing us with the key industry information!

We have great news to share with you: we finally launched Radio Spots on Streema.com!! What you will read about below is a really important step in the development of a better community experience at our site. Hope you enjoy it!

Each radio station will have their own individual Radio Spot. These pages will not only display additional information about a station but also the following: a You May Also Like section, for potentially interesting and related radio stations; a Wall to write your thoughts or comments about the radio station (for this you need to register / log in); and a Now Listening box to show the users within the Streema community who are enjoying that same radio. By the way, if you’re thinking that we should also allow users to “review” a radio and give it a “rating”, you’re spot on: that’s in the works and soon to be released. : )

How do you get to a Radio Spot? Just click on the name of the radio in our Radio Directory, the Charts, or any other place where the name appears. The only exception happens if you’re trying to get to a Radio Spot from your Favorites list - from there, you’ll need to place the mouse pointer on the name of the radio, wait for a second, and then click on the text that says “Radio Spot”.

By the way, here are the spots of four Streema Team favorite stations:

• Virgin Radio Classic Rock
• 977 The Mix
• Radio Swiss Jazz
• Ministry of Sound

So, what do you think? How could we improve these Radio Spots? Send us your feedback and thoughts to info at streema dot com or just leave your comment below. We want to hear from you!! : )

Ok, that’s all for now. Come back to our blog soon, as we’ll be posting recent Radio News.

Stay tuned!

The Streema Team

Hello once again!

We’ve been posting quite frequently during the past few days, mainly because we’ve had to weather a storm caused by lots and lots of visits to our site. And that is a great thing!

On the left, you can see graph that shows the visits to Streema.com during the past two weeks. While we did omit specific numbers, to give you an idea, our website experienced close to a 20-fold increase in traffic in just 48 hours! You can see where most of those visits came from just by looking at all the radios that made it to the top of the Streema Charts. :P

As we said in the previous post, we’re working hard to accommodate for a greater community of users. Our site is up and running again, so do check it out by going to our website Streema.com or the Streema Facebook application.

Stay tuned!

The Streema Team

Dear Streema Community,

As we shared with you in our previous post, this past week Streema has been mentioned a lot around the web. That has turned out to be a mixed blessing for Streema as it has been traditionally for many startups: the great news is that word is getting around about us… but the bad news is that these visits came at an unexpected time in our development and literally crashed our servers.

Three websites from Japan - Egone.org, Dougafile.shard.jp and Jyouhouya3.sakura.ne.jp - sent so many visitors that it brought down both Streema.com and our Facebook application for several hours at a time during yesterday and today. And they still continue to do this as we write this post! We wanted this to happen after July, with our new design and a different server infrastructure than the one we have now, but the Web works in mysterious ways. : )

Apart from saying “we’re sorry” to those of you that have experienced problems accessing our site, we also wanted to let our users know that we are working hard to resolve these scalability issues promptly.

If you have any comments, don’t hesitate to email us at info at streema dot com.

Stay tuned!

The Streema Team

We have great news! Last week our site was reviewed by a few tech blogs from different parts of the world and we wanted to share that with you. Here’s a sample of what’s been said about Streema:

• KillerStartups (in English)
• CenterNetworks (in English)
• Bitelia (in Spanish)
• Genbeta (in Spanish)
• Maestroalberto (in Italian)

We would like to thank these blogs and all the other ones that have talked about Streema in the past week. : )

Also, a quick pre-announcement to make: we are working on a new design for our site, which will go live in the very near future. Get ready for a new and improved Streema!

Stay tuned!

The Streema Team

PS - Do you love Streema? If so, vote for us at KillerStartups, it’ll take less than 10 seconds! Thanks for your support!!

A few users asked us how they could find out when we make a new blog post. There are currently two ways to do that:

• Feed Reader (what is this? see here). If you use a feed reader, just click on the orange RSS logo on the top right of the sidebar.

• Email. Click here or on the sidebar link that says “Subscribe by Email”. You’ll receive an email as soon as we post something on our blog. We’ve syndicated the service to FeedBurner, who we trust and is easy to use.

For any of these options, you can easily subscribe and unsubscribe whenever you want with just a few clicks. Hope this information is useful. : )

Stay tuned!

The Streema Team

Starting today, we’ll periodically blog Radio News with station information that we think is important and relevant to our users.

This information will range from recently added radio stations to Streema’s Radio Directory to broader industry events like mergers or acquisitions which cause stations to change names and others to even cease to exist! After all, listening to great radio stations is one of the main reasons Streema was created and we want to make sure our users are up to date with the latest info!

This time around, we bring news about radio stations that have closed and wanted to let you know what we’ve done about it in our Radio Directory:

• Core radio has closed (see more info here), so it will be erased from our directory and from the any Favorite Lists that included them.

• Capital Life and theJazz have closed too (see more info here and here). Since Capital Life’s old website, owned by Gcap Media, offers a link to Gold (listen via Streema), we’ll recommend that previous Capital Life listeners try it out. Similarly, theJazz offers a link to Classic FM (listen via Streema) as an option, so give it a shot if you’re a previous listener of theJazz!

• Planet Rock is near closing, but a campaign to save it that is supported by Brian May (yes, you read well!) has just started.

Although most of this is hardly news in the media industry, we still wanted to inform the Streema community since we did make those changes to our directory. If anyone has any concerns, feel free to contact us.

Finally, we’ll like to thank one of our Streema Facebook App users, Cymon Humphries, for bringing up this information.

That’s all for now. Stay tuned!

The Streema Team

Hi Streema users! We would like to share with you some of the improvements we’ve made to our Facebook Application.

• Good bye to pop-up blockers!
  Finally, we’ve found a way to avoid having you change your web browser’s pop-up blocker to use our app. This is a big improvement since many new users had problems using our application when they would click on the play buttons and our pop-up with the media player didn’t come up. If you were one of those, be sure to check out our new version!

• Showing a larger number of Recent Listeners
  We’ve have increase the amount of Recent Listeners to 10 Friends. They now appear with a larger picture too, hope you like this change! =)

• Removed the box with the Friends who have added Streema
  We’ve removed this box since we figured there was other information that was more appropriate for the “Home” section. For now you can see the friends who have added the app in the About Page, although soon we’ll be developing a few more community aspects to our app which will include that information.

• Additional station info in the pop-up player
  The pop-up which contains the player and the radio station info also includes a link to the radio’s homepage and a Report Link to inform us when a radio is not working - just like at Streema.com! =)

• FAQs Update
  We’ve updated our our FAQs section. If you have any doubt about this or anything else, visit our FAQs or drop us a line!

Before we leave, we also want to pre-announce that soon we’ll be launching a series of Charts as we’ve done on Streema.com along with notification emails to keep you updated.

Don’t forget to check out our new and improved Streema App to listen to your favorite radios.

That’s all for now. And for those Facebook users out there, thank you for spreading the word about us!

Stay tuned!

The Streema Team