An invitation to help me design a new feature

Cool. The Zune Social is great. I love how things are always improving. I love ya Zune Team!

Add me to the list. Good Job jetherealz.

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If Music be the food of Love...then FEAST!

im confused...ur the 1 to come up with the idea and we're have to comment on it?im in but...is'nt it better to let the community to come up with the idea's?i mean we are the cunsumers here.no critsisam on ur idea/thread jessica,i love the zune but i dont like the social...i am the only 1 with a zune here in saudi arabia (ksa,middle east),so...its hard for me to like it...thouhg i would like to suggest an idea: the zune has music restrictions to stop people from not buying their own music,but i have a great idea to let people to enjoy the social.if a person geust synced his zune on his freinds computer then his zune is now known as a freind zune,so if the freind zune guy meets the guy who he synced his zune on his compurter then if he recives music from him it would not have any ristrictions,therefore his freind gets free music but any other strangers with zunes get samples only because they didnt geust sync on his computer.so what do u think?

 macbookfrontier wrote:

im confused...ur the 1 to come up with the idea and we're have to comment on it?im in but...is'nt it better to let the community to come up with the idea's?i mean we are the cunsumers here.no critsisam on ur idea/thread jessica

Good question. Users are totally and completely welcome - and indeed asked! - to share their ideas. The thing is, I need to scope this to what I can control - which is the Social web site. So I can't do any features that require device or software interaction.

I also know from experience that it's often easier to get people to react to ideas if you present some starting points rather than leave it open-ended. But like I said, users can come up with whatever ideas, and if we find a cool one, we'll try to do it!

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Jessica Zahn, Zune Social Program Manager ~ This posting is provided as-is with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Although this might be dipping into the software side a bit, how about an outbox for the 250 character messages. Sometimes I'm straining to remember what I last wrote to a person who messages me back after a few days. Also how about some type of notification system for when a person receives a private message? Sometimes I miss them for a few days because I don't know I have one.

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Add me to the list;
I have some experience in extremely basic programing (mainly linux usage), and a passion for digital audio and video, and the Zune device as a whole. I'd love to contribute any help whatsoever. Thank you.

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- Mike Wi-Fi Enhancements on the Zune Platform

 Solar257 wrote:

Although this might be dipping into the software side a bit, how about an outbox for the 250 character messages. Sometimes I'm straining to remember what I last wrote to a person who messages me back after a few days. Also how about some type of notification system for when a person receives a private message? Sometimes I miss them for a few days because I don't know I have one.

Totally my area, totally a place I'm going to improve...but not with this project. :-) Outbox, the ability to have the message copied into the body of the reply, the ability to forward - all important stuff I've got to do. :-) And I will!

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Jessica Zahn, Zune Social Program Manager ~ This posting is provided as-is with no warranties, and confers no rights.

I'll gladly provide you with some epic, free ideas.  Looking forward to seeing what we can come up with.

Here are some quick ideas. Just brainstorms, not necessarily good ideas:

a way to quickly match up with users who listen to the same songs and artists (sort of like 'your listening is a 67% match with Bob')

community-created collaborative playlists that act as 'albums' on the Zune card (has album art that identifies it as a Zune Social playlist). Perhaps download playlists from other people if you have the songs in their playlists. I'd really like to hear other people's playlists of songs I own. Playlists could be voted on/ranked as well. They could be a bit like the iTunes (sorry!) exclusive compilations. You could even sell this playlists (i.e. sell the individual tracks together as a package).

I'd really like to see customizable albums so that I can have commercially unreleased music that I listen to show up on the Zune card. For example live concerts - they won't ever show up on www.allmusic.com, but I listen to a lot of that kind of stuff. Surely the Zune card could be made to display album artist and song title from the tags if it doesn't recognise the album.

Let messages show up on my Zune software or device - I don't use the social much as Zunes aren't available in my country yet, so I only know two other people with Zunes. If I don't check for messages I'd like to see them when I use my Zune.

Album / artist / song reviews

The ability to rank your favourites - at least to specify my no.1 favourite artist or album in addition to simply selecting certain tracks and artists as favourites.

Podcast integration - recommendations, play counts, etc. I find I listen to a LOT of podcasts now that I have an MP3 player with excellent podcast support.

Concert notifications for when a band you like is playing live near you. Concert reviews...fan-generated blog of a current tour.

I'd better get back to work now, but the most important thing (I don't know if you have access to anyone who can help with this):

RELEASE THE ZUNE IN AUSTRALIA PLEASE! and don't ask me how I got one, I'm not telling.

Regards,

 

 

Uhmm, Okay I'll go first!

I think that the Zune Social could be improved with an interent relay client with moderators and operators, of course!  This would facilitate:

1.  An instant welcome from real zuners

2.  Get answers to questions that most of the Zune-ites already know or directions to the right forum

3.  Real time chat for those who have expressed the need for more a more that 230 word response

 

How's that for a start?

 

Kate

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There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another. Frank Zappa

I personally believe the Wi-Fi features on the Zune aren't living up to their full potential. I've already detailed the problem in the following post:
http://forums.zune.net/163185/ShowPost.aspx

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- Mike Wi-Fi Enhancements on the Zune Platform

i think you could really make the profile pages amazing, you're calling this a social, so why not let us customize more, our homepages could become somethign sort of like myspace or facebook. with message boards or walls that we can post on, pictures and video and music that we could post and like to (with good taste of course) you could do so much with this system. thats just my opinion

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