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If you haven’t visited our radio directory recently, we recommend you do that right now! :)

Aside from finding a growing directory of thousands of radio stations, you’ll see that we now order radio stations by popularity, as measured by our community’s activity. It’ll be easier than ever to find the best stations out there! Check out the screen shot below.

If you look closely, you’ll also notice that on the right side of the page there’s a showcase of the top station for a select number of genres. This is so that you can quickly explore radios that Streema users have been listening to a whole lot recently. :)

Anyway, we hope you enjoy this new radio discovery tool - and we look forward to bringing you a more social and better community experience at Streema in the coming months.

So, one more time, stay tuned!

The Streema Team

So, we have some more good news: today we released a new application for Facebook called “Streema Radio Tuner for Pages“. If you have a Facebook Page, this application is for you!

“Streema Radio Tuner for Pages” allows you to add a radio station to your Page, so that visitors can listen to radio directly from there. Clearly, we weren’t satisfied with only one application, so we created another one! :P

Jokes aside, what happened was that many Radio Owners, DJs, and Producers wanted to include our classic application “Streema Radio Tuner” on their Pages, so we figured we’d give them a way to do that.

With this new application, we hope to approach many Radio Page owners or any Page administrators who want to improve their visitors’ experience. This is something really new, so we look forward to receive your feedback!

Stay tuned!

The Streema Team

PS: If you have a radio, band, or any other music-related product or service, we highly recommend creating a Page on Facebook by following a few easy steps. For more information, click here.

As we mentioned over two weeks ago, we’ve been working really hard to develop a new design for Streema.com. Today we can say it is finally with us - yeeeaaahhh!

So… go to Streema.com and you’ll see that we’ve changed the WHOLE front end of our site. This has involved the design and architecture of images and objects, any message, alert or notification displayed, the color palette and even the Streema Logo! We hope this will improve and enhance your experience on our site.

Besides the “design”, the main differences you’ll experience as a user are: a new Home page you get when not logged in; and the development of a Player (check the mockup below) which lets us hide the ugly Windows Media or the Real Audio players - although you’ll still need to have them installed on your computer in order to play all the stations in our Radio Directory, exactly as it works nowadays. The are other cool new things on our site, but we’ll leave you to discover them on your own. : )

Well, we’re really excited about this big change and we hope we’ve chosen the right path. We still think there’s room for improvement, so we specially request you to tell us what you like and don’t like. Thanks and enjoy the new Streema.com !!

Stay tuned!

The Streema Team

As we’ve mentioned before, we’ve been working really hard to develop a new design for Streema.com - and today we can say we are very close launching it or, in other words, bringing it to town! : )

The big reason for this redesign is that we needed to give our already very useful site a “cool” look while keeping it as user friendly as possible. We hope this will improve and enhance your experience at our site.

As an avant premiere for our blog readers, below you can see how the Homepage will look as soon as you get to Streema.com for the first time, before logging in:

We are really excited about this big change and we hope the next post about Streema.com will be about launching this cool new design!

Stay tuned!

The Streema Team

We periodically receive many inquiries regarding browsers, the most common ones being “What’s the best browser?” and “What’s the best browser to run Streema on?”. However, recently the most popular inquiries have revolved around the following question: “Why doesn’t Streema work in Chrome?”.

The potential answers for the first question are quite personal. Within our team, we can say that the PC users prefer Firefox and the Mac users prefer Safari. : )

As for the second question, Streema should work fine on:

• Internet Explorer: The last two versions, 6 and 7.

• Mozilla Firefox: The last two versions as well, 2 and 3.

• Safari: The last two as well, versions 2 and 3.

If you don’t know which version you’re using, just go to your browser’s menu, click on the “Help” tab, and then “About [browser’s name]”.

Last week, Google launched their new browser called Chrome. We’ve seen that, for the time being, it doesn’t support the Windows Media Player. In other words, although Streema looks great on it, our site won’t work with Chrome when you play most of the stations on our directory. If anything changes, we’ll be sure to let all you Chrome fans know!

Touching the same point, there is a similar problem if you use Opera with the last version, although it can be solved using MPlayer or VLC Media Player.

For more info, please visit our FAQs section, or contact us via the contact form or email us at info at streema dot com. Hope we’ve cleared most of your doubts. : )

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 (check out the mockup below). 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!!