favorite10.com blog

Welcome to favorite10.com

January 9, 2008 – 1:30 pm

Thanks for checking out the site. Chances are you are one of our close friends who we’ve invited to help us kick the tires a little bit on the new site. Or perhaps you’ve stumbled upon this site somehow — either way, welcome. (Oh and if you’re one of our friends who are reading this post entry at a later date and wondering why you weren’t invited to check it out, don’t be offended, we just value your opinion a little less…)

Anyway, favorite10.com was started because of the arguments that music lovers have all the time about what the best album of all time is. One of my favorite things is looking at people’s top 10 lists and discovering new music. The only problem is that if you look at someone’s list and they have terrible crap like Good Charlotte on there, you can pretty much write off the rest of their albums. (As a matter of fact, you probably should just walk away.) That’s why we think f10 is going to be so cool — if you see a list with one of your favorite albums on it, you might want to check out some of the other albums on that list. And if 1,000 people have that same album on their lists, then you know you have a pretty good chance of liking that album.

There’s a lot going on with the site that we’re still working on but we want your feedback on this early beta version. (Check out the FAQ) There are three lists that we are launching with: favorite albums of all time, of 2007, and of the moment. It’s a blank slate folks. Your favorite albums will have an immediate impact on the overall top 100. So please take some time to put together your f10 lists. It took me about 10 minutes to put mine together — and about 3 hours to edit the version that’s on the site — and I’m sure there will be changes still.

Don’t forget, other users can rate and comment on your list, so please don’t embarrass yourself even though you really really want to put that Jewel album on your there. Below is a couple of known issues we’ll be fixing asap but any other feedback you might have or bugs that you stumble upon, please drop us an email at feedback@favorite10.com.

Thanks,

Vin

Known issues and features in development:

• Duplicate albums - there are a lot of duplicate items in the database because of reissues, imports, etc. Try to pick the one that looks more correct (usually by release date) for now.
• Friends - we’ll soon have the ability to upload user photos and add friends.
• Email alerts - get an alert anytime someone comments on your list.