This is an early preview to a TubeBattle blog entry

Dedicated to the Nerdcode Geeks out there!
You’ll either be ROFLMAO or asking WTF?!

Monzy performing at Stanford Univ

Never heard of or seen guitar tapping until i saw these videos. Now I’m a convert to the art!

Andy McKee playing his original song called Drifting.

Erik Mongrain playing “AirTap“.

Not as good as AirTap, but another piece by Erik Mongrain…

As I previously mentioned, thanks to top-rated videos on TubeBattle, I’m starting to get exposed to all kinds of “current-coolness”.

I didn’t know what “beatboxing” was last week (and in fact, I still don’t know if it is one-word or two-words?). But now I’m happy to introduce this impressive video: A group known as Naturally7 starts impromptu singing and beatboxing on a subway line full of passengers in Paris.

So it’s been 3 weeks since TubeBattle went live. The stats have been impressive so far.

• Total # of visitors since opening: 9,267 (3,089 per week or 441 per day)
• Total # of repeat visitors (visited more than 1 time): 845 (9.1%)
• Total # of videos served up: 10,560
• Total # of votes cast: 644

Here’s a snapshot of my Google Analytics Geomap, showing where all the users are coming from:

As part of the ongoing development of the site, my developer has completed most of the visible changes. The site now displays some “activity counters”, such as # of users online currently, # of videos in each battle, # of votes that have been cast (in total as well as for each battle). I’ve noticed a huge up-tick in votes being cast, since the counters went in. I’m also overjoyed by the fact that the “# of users online” has always been in the 3-15 range every time I check the site, so it looks like people are really enjoying the website!

Some of you know I moved to Las Vegas just this Summer.
Summer was hot. Incredibly hot at 130+ degrees Farenheit! At 10pm at night, the summer nights might drop to the low 90 degrees.

But who knew, that it also snows in Vegas!
Here are some videos I captured while driving today…
Click on the (small) green Play button on the bottom left to view the videos.
Co-incidence or not, at the time of the filming, I was listening to Hotel California by the Eagles, from the Hell Freezes Over album!