Mugasha - the premier destination for electronic music from the best DJs worldwide - has offically opened its doors to the public.
A year of hard work has gone into creating a beautiful and functional portal for electronic music fan community to find sets (parsed by track) by their favorite DJs, along with information about them and tickets to upcoming shows. And there’s a lot more in the pipeline! Subscribe to their blog to keep up to date with all the exciting things they’ve got coming. For those of you that are particularly diehard, they have an auxiliary blog where fans can write posts too.
Mugasha was founded at Startup Weekend in Portland last summer. They were selected to be part of SXSW’s super competitive Accelerator program in March, where they had a bunch of publicity and a bunch of fun (”spring break for developers,” as described by cofounder/visionary Akshay Dodeja).
They’ve been featured on TechCrunch twice already since launch day:
If You Like Electronic Music, You’ll Love Mugasha (reposted by the Washington Post)
Your Guide to Music on the Web
Akshay was intereviewed by Robert Scoble in the early days, and there was a great post about Mugasha on ReadWriteWeb. They have been faithfully followed by Silicon Florist, a Portland tech blog, since the very beginning.
Cofounders Akshay Dodeja and Justin Thiele currently live in Portland, OR. They are the most dedicated startup guys I know, and I know a lot of startup guys. The two of them have bootstrapped the company thus far, but plan on expanding beyond the resources of their living rooms and interns in the future. Meanwhile, they will continue to add new sets by more world-famous DJs and explode the site with incredible features.
Today I signed up for Path101, a career guidance site currently in alpha. I forget how I heard about it - probably Twitter, because that’s how I get most of my information these days. Anyway, I decided to sign up because I (a) like to play with new toys and (b) am trying to get a career started here, and any advice is welcome.
They offer a ‘personality test’ that gauges your traits and skills and presents you with career options accordingly. I have my doubts about the test, since all questions are vague and answered by a sliding scale or ranking options, but it’s a good start and leads to some degree of introspection if nothing else. There’s also some form of resume analysis, where you upload your resume (didn’t work) or link them to your LinkedIn; I’ve given them the latter but haven’t done anything with it yet. Lastly, I checked out the questions section and answered a few. It appears that more features - additional quizzes and such - are in the works.
The site is a good idea and has the potential to turn into a valuabe resource, especially with so many people now out of work (or about to be) and average-career-switches-per-American on the rise. They don’t specialize in any particular field, which could be a good or a bad thing, I haven’t decided. It’ll either give them a foot in the door in a variety of industries, or cause them to miss out on offering services that could make them indispensable in a particular field. Maybe they could increase traffic via an application on LinkedIn, or maybe they’d be better off doing that instead of a destination site. I suppose it’s too early to tell. I definitely support their mission, though, so I’ll be checking in periodically and playing around some more 
So, I finally created my own PayPal account. I know, I know. Sorry. It’s embarrassing how long I waited. For the longest time, I was able to get away with using Akshay’s account.
No more!
I was prompted to do so because I was doing Christmas shopping on eBay, and one of the retailers I was purchasing from accepted nothing else. I would have bought my goods elsewhere, but the price was too good. The goods better be, too…
See, I rarely buy anything online. It’s true! As comfortable as I am with the intarwebs and asserting myself all over it (them? no), our interactions are purely intangible. I transmit and receive incredible amounts of information, but not much in the way of clothing and electronics and whatnot. I prefer to do my shopping in person because nothing ever has the expected number of USB ports, or it’s definitely not the color I ordered, or it NEVER fits. That’s a different story. Let’s not get into it.
I’m glad I have an account now - I no longer have to transact with most people in cash, which is always preferable because I can know where money is going. I dislike cash because every time I break a 20 it vanishes within a few days and I’m often hard-pressed to figure out where. Complicating my online life is going to simplify my finances! How exciting.
I finally made a profile on Yelp. I use it so damn much that I figured I should throw in my two cents from time to time, in case anyone cares to know. So far I’ve reviewed a handful of Berkeley joints and will add more from time to time as I get bored in class, hungry, etc.
I’m also avoiding midterm studying. Somehow it’s hard to concentrate on the distant past when all I want to do is figure out the future. I really do love history but more often than not, it’s so far from high tech that it’s hard to switch gears back and forth. Therefore, it’s goodbye to the virtual world until I’ve learned enough about political theory to indulge myself on the web. Gotta love being a liberal arts student.
Hi everyone! I finally got a site together, but I have yet to fill it up, obviously. Check back in, I promise there will be interesting things soon!
