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Social gifting startup Wrapp is today announcing that it has grown its user base to 1 million within fourteen months - proof that people really do enjoy freebies, it seems. The company, which allows users to send both free and paid digital gifts and gift cards to friends, also had a busy holiday season, hitting 1 million gifts sent per week during the period. And it saw 100,000 gift redemptions per week by the end of December. In total, there were 7.4 million gifts given to date during the holiday peak period, the company tells TechCrunch.
Myspace may have picked a bad day to open up its redesigned site to the public. While the dethroned social networking giant quietly opened its gates Tuesday morning, everybody in the tech world was busy preparing, and then dissecting, Facebook's announcement of Graph Search.
But let's not bury Myspace just yet. Called the New Myspace, the redesign, which entered beta last July, is not aimed at yanking anyone away from Facebook or Google+. Its goal, under the wing of pop singer/actor/Sean Parker-playing co-owner Justin Timberlake, is to do what Myspace did best in the waning days of the site's mid-2000s popularity: give musicians, both professional and aspiring, a better way to interact with fans and help fans discover new music.
In some ways, though that means Myspace is now competing with music streaming services like Pandora and Spotify, and that's not going to be easy, even with Timberlake's music industry clout.
Anyone who was interested last September got a look at the new Myspace when Timberlake tweeted a vimeo link to a preview of the redesign. Not much has changed since then.
To recap, the site jettisoned the vertical flow used by most other social networks, opting instead for a horizontal stream that naturally lays out status updates, shared songs and photos. All interactions also hinge on Myspace's version of Facebook's "Like" and Google's "+1," called Connect. Symbolized by a Venn diagram that unites when you decide to subscribe to a musician or find a friend, the Connect option is logical and looks nice, but it's nothing you haven't seen before.
The true innovation - in the minds of Timberlake and Specific Media, who co-purchased the site from News Corp. in 2011 for $35 million - is the black bar running across the bottom of the site.
While it resembles the 'Now Playing' bar at the top of iTunes and other streaming sites, Myspace's implementation is meant to make playing and sharing music a central aspect of the experience. It puts the Home button, your Profile link and your Notification Center right alongside it, with Discover and Search options as well. Discover is the key to exploring Myspace, letting you see what's trending and listen to custom radio stations and mixes.
Myspace's music discovery service comes together in the interactions between the artist profiles and your own. Essentially, users connect to an artist, get updates from that artist, and can stream shared tracks - or even whole albums - while interacting with other fans, amateur musicians, DJs, producers, etc. To help facilitate this music-based interaction, new Myspace subscribers are asked to put themselves into one of a handful of categories, ranging from musician or venue to fan or promoter.
Early experimentation yields some interesting results. For instance, pulling up the Search tab next to the Discover button lets you type in the name of a band, and yields a list of streamable and sharable tracks, band info. Presumably as time goes on, the service will add actual updates from bands that agree to hop back on the Myspace bandwagon.
That's the key, of course. The New Myspace looks and works fine. But the revived social network's biggest, and most likely insurmountable, obstacle is that it's a ghost town right now, and it will probably stay that way.
The problem is that it's simply too late for Myspace to capture any ground from its competitors.
Spotify, with its ever-increasing library of available music, Facebook-anchored sharing and playlist making, and tiered accounts for mobile and offline use is not going to lose users to Myspace, despite Justin Timberlake's enthusiasm.
And that brings up another issue. Timberlake's face plastered on Myspace's homepage has been getting a lot of flak, and for good reason. Debuting his new single, "Suit & Tie," on the homepage of the social network he co-owns may be good marketing, but could also be seen as a cheap, self-promotional move.
Myspace may have once been the king of social networking, but those days are gone forever. If Timberlake is able to convince fellow musicians to partner with the site, it's likely to hang around for at least a while, but that's about it.
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A HISTORIC gateway to the Ashton Court estate is to undergo a major facelift.
Ashton Court Lower Lodge, which is currently shrouded in scaffolding and plastic sheeting, is next to Ashton Park School on the A370 near the Cumberland Basin.
It is passed by thousands of commuters each day on their way to and from work.
The Architectural Heritage Fund has agreed to provide a grant of £164,000 to develop a scheme for restoring the building, which used to be one of the main entrances to Ashton Court.
The aim is to use the restored building for school pupils to study history and as a community resource for the general public.
The grant will be matched by a contribution from the Bristol Buildings Preservation Trust towards the project, of £165,000.
A partnership which was set up by the trust and which includes Ashton Park School and the city council is seeking a grant of £498,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The HLF has promised a Stage One grant of £32,200, enabling further development work, and unlocking the contributions from the other partners to get going on the detailed design work.
The whole project is expected to cost in the region of £1.2 million.
The Grade II* listed Georgian building is currently empty and in a state of decay. It was last used in the 1960s.
Its historic owners, the Smyth family, and their visitors would arrive at the Lower Lodge – also known as the Town Gate – and travel in a great sweep below the mansion's south face to eventually arrive at the Western Entrance.
City councillor Anthony Negus, who is also chairman of the Bristol Buildings Preservation Trust, said: "This is such good news. We have now thoroughly explored the options for the Lower Lodge, and how exciting its restoration could be, but have never been able to be very confident about the funding up till now.
"The Lower Lodge at Ashton Court is an important part of Bristol's heritage and we want to restore it to its former glory, for everyone to enjoy. We are not quite home and dry, but we can now be optimistic that we are celebrating something that will happen, rather than something that might."
Cabinet councillor for Culture and Sport Simon Cook said: "Ashton Court as a whole is now being assessed and a project underway on how to reverse decades of damage and neglect, and get the main building back into full use.
"The Lower Lodge is a small but vital project, as one of the last derelict buildings of the landscaped estate, and its future is now about to be secured. This good news on funding for Lower Lodge should build confidence in the community for the future of the whole Ashton Court estate. It's very possible a solution can be found.
"Even in difficult financial times, it is possible to identify funds from specialist organisations who know the nation's heritage is too important to neglect, and from the most creative partners who can see the commercial potential where we do not always have the answers. This is particularly true if we can think outside the box and enable imaginative new uses for our oldest buildings."
Ashton Park Head teacher Tessa Thomas said: "Our school logo is the Lower Lodge, which every student wears on their uniform and we have on our headed paper.
"Our students are excited by the possibility of Lower Lodge being restored to its former glory and hope local historic societies will join our staff in recounting the importance of the Lodge and Ashton Court Estate to the students in their lessons."
The two-storey Lower Lodge was built by the architect Henry Wood for Sir Hugh Smyth in 1805. It is in the Tudor style and its features include lancet windows, octagonal towers, a Tudor arch gateway and battlements.
The trust has set up a website, www.bristolbuildingspreservationtrust.org.uk, where supporters can register themselves as friends and support the restoration project.
They are also invited to share their thoughts on how the lodge could be used by the community and any memories of the lodge.
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