R.I.P. Rolling.fm [& Turntable.fm]

[Benjamin]

:laugh:

['Conor]

Just came in from a night out
Had a lovely wank
And I go into the room and Conor is playing Billy Idol
Life is goooood

:love:

[King Gizzard]

yo http://www.rolling.fm/web/room2/2832604#_=_

[King Gizzard]

where did you go karl :hmph:

[Iceman]

Karl

[Shaun]

well they've tarted up the site recently

[Benjamin]

http://www.rolling.fm/web/room2/2832604#_=_

[Benjamin]

Anybody hitting Rolling?

[Iceman]

Yes

[Black Dagger]

Does Rolling.FM work in the UK now? Didn't know that.

[Benjamin]

http://www.rolling.fm/web/room2/3238816

[Iceman]

http://www.rolling.fm/web/room2/2832604#_=_

[Benjamin]

http://www.rolling.fm/web/room2/2832604#_=_

Anybody in there at the moment?

[Benjamin]

http://www.rolling.fm/web/room2/2832604#_=_

Is Eoin online? :suspect:

[Iceman]

Anyone coming rolling for abit?

[Lee.]

I will.. give me the link

[Iceman]

http://www.rolling.fm/web/room2/2832604#_=_

ths

[Novo]

http://www.rolling.fm/web/room2/4955982 < New Room

[Ramsay]

i interupted my fappin time there better be a good tune

[King Gizzard]

http://www.rolling.fm/web/room2/4956222

[King Gizzard]

nope that ones being an idiot too

[Iceman]

someone try an old room

[King Gizzard]

Just tried one, didn't work

[Iceman]

wonder why that is?

[King Gizzard]

I could dj in the first room we went in tonight :suspect:

[Iceman]

http://www.rolling.fm/web/room2/4956284

[Iceman]

someone help fix the rooms :(

[King Gizzard]

I logged out and in of the actual site, deleted my cache/cookies still wouldnt do it..probably some sort of bot banning people

[Iceman]

thats ****....any other sites like this?

[Novo]

Something is a miss here

[Iceman]

http://www.rolling.fm/web/room2/4956498

[Lee.]

Did this sort itself out?

[Iceman]

no very strange though..........

[King Gizzard]

http://www.rolling.fm/web/room2/2832604#_=_ seems to be working

[Benjamin]

Anyone up for a bit of Rolling?


http://www.rolling.fm/web/room2/4999904

[Smithy]

ROLLING IN THE DEEEEEEEP

but no im good ta

[Benjamin]

Get out. :bored:

-plays Gaga on repeat whilst sitting in the room alone-

['Conor]

wont let me because my facebook is down :(

[Benjamin]

wont let me because my facebook is down :(

There's a few of us in there too.

[Novo]

Chop Chop

[Novo]

Someone get a room going

[Benjamin]

http://www.rolling.fm/web/room2/2832604#_=_

[Benjamin]

Urgh, it went all weird on me. :sad:

[Novo]

went weird last night a few times

[Boothy]

Where did you go, Ben?

[Lee.]

Night folks... I need to sleep

[Marc]

Does anybody use this anymore?

[Doogle]

I forgot about this :o

[Marc]

How could you forget?!

[Doogle]

I..I don't know :sad:

[Benjamin]

It doesn't work anymore. :suspect:

[Doogle]

The whole website or the tibb room?

[Shaun]

website :/ still nothing from turntable either. gay.

[Doogle]

Noooo I really enjoyed it, I found some good songs from that :(

[Shaun]

Back in September, Turntable.fm fast follower Rolling.fm was trumpeting achievements and rolling out new features. “We are excited to announce there has been over 1,000,000 friendships made on Rolling.FM since our launch a little over a month ago! Our platform has definitely become the music AND social discovery platform,” cofounder Nhon Ma wrote in an email announcing more social features and an enhanced profile browser. But the streaming music game built by former Googlers seems to have dropped off the map sometime last month. “Was curious to know what was going on with rolling.fm after their site hasn’t been resolving for previous couple weeks,” a tipster wrote in.

Indeed, Rolling.fm does not resolve and the last tweet was on November 19. Rolling’s precursor, a social deals site called Tenka.com, is also not resolving.

The Facebook app had about 200 daily active users a month ago; now it has none, according to AppData. There’s evidence that Rolling was active until at least Dec. 15, when the producer duo Dada Life premiered a remix there; Bnet interviewed the startup on Dec. 8.

Tim Zhou, Rolling’s chief product officer, did not respond to an email request for comment. At present, the mysterious disappearance of Rolling.fm would appear to be due to three possible reasons:

1. Forgot to renew domain*
2. Cease and desist notice from scary record label
3. Failed to gain enough traction or funding, cofounders gave up on it (even Turntable’s traffic has been slipping)

*A reader points out that the domain expires in 2012, so this explanation is unlikely.

Rolling.fm caught some flak from the internet when it launched in the wake of Turntable.fm’s extreme success. The founders admitted they duped the idea, but appealed to the internet’s tradition of innovation. (Even Steve Jobs subscribed to the doctrine of “good artists copy, great artists steal.”)

The cofounders had pivoted from Tenka, a deals site that raised from seed investors including StubHub’s Jeff Fluhr, Great Oaks Venture Capital’s Ben Lin and Raj Sandhu, formerly of the Soros Fund. The site was available outside the U.S., unlike Turntable, which let them grab some easy users.

The cofounders switched to building Rolling in May, they said, which would mean Rolling had about a seven month run before giving up the ghost. But the co-founders put the startup on AngelList about nine months ago. We’ll update as we learn more.

:suspect:

-presumes it's 2-

[Black Dagger]

I noticed this two weeks ago, we used to go in there all the time, then it just died, I was like =(, Turntable doesn't work either.

[Ninastar]

http://i.imgur.com/MKhXL.gif

[Benjamin]

Its ok Caitlin, we'll just have to all sing to each other now. :hug:


-starts humming the opening to 'Rivers of Babylon'-

[Ninastar]

we should have a funeral xox

[Maia]

It's dead? Shame, I only got to go there once :(

[GypsyGoth]

That toilet is gone forever :(

[Marc]

I need to wee though! :(

[GypsyGoth]

I need to wee though! :(

You can do it in michael21's house :amazed:

[Marc]

:( It always smells like dead bodies in there

[GypsyGoth]

:( It always smells like dead bodies in there

:laugh2:

[Shaun]

adding to this...

http://pitchfork.com/news/53112-turntablefm-shutting-down/

[King Gizzard]

how was this nearly 2 years ago? wow

[Ninastar]

i dont even remember what this is

[reece(:]

Wuts this?