Holy crap have these last couple of weeks been nuts!  Things are actually looking up for Local Sounds.  Things are starting to be put into motion, making our efforts appear as if they might actually be paying off!

The wiki is due for release at the beginning of October.  Right now it’s in beta testing with some of our faithful newsletter subscribers.  But what no one knows (until now in this blog post) is that we have another newbie right around the corner at the beginning of November too!  This new service will definitely will be a nice addition to the wiki, plus it will be perfect timing for its first Christmas season, but that’s all I’m going to tell you now.  (I know, you’re probably yelling $@#& at me right now!!)

Also, I will be helping a friend of mine publish a guitar lesson and theory book that he put together a couple years ago.  We finally found the perfect resource to help make it happen.  More on this as it develops at a later time.

And finally, the radio widget hasn’t seen a lot of updating lately, but once I get back to it I know it won’t be long before we release version 1.1!  I’m looking to get this up and ready to go during mid-October, so you’ll be able to listen to your Halloween dance tracks on the new version. :)  That’s the goal for now, but I’ll keep my fingers crossed until it happens for sure!  Also, if you have any suggestions or feedback for areas of improvement or additions to the widget, please list them in the comments of this post.

Until next time.

I hope everyone had a great and relaxing Labor Day weekend.  I wish I had done a little more for the holiday, but it was relaxing, yet productive.  When I was growing up the Labor Day weekend was always the last weekend that we got to go camping.  I suppose that seems like the norm here in the Midwest; especially in Central Wisconsin where I grew up.  :)  At least this year we got a couple hours Monday evening to sit down on Lake Mendota and grill out and watch the sailboats in front of an amazing backdrop made up of the setting sun and the Madison downtown skyline.

Even though I wish the holiday hadn’t ended so quickly, it’s nice to know that the weekend is almost here again.  I vote that we need more Mondays off during the year!  Between that and a pretty lax week at the day job, it’s been an overall peaceful work week.

Speaking of work week (no day job stories today to bore you with, don’t worry!), had some good progress on my new found interest in Internet radio widget development.  Got the “legal” licensing stuff cleared up with the guy behind the widget that the Gruvsonic widget is based off of.  Nice guy, easy to work with.  He runs www.nzmac.com, a Mac community in New Zealand.  Check it out.

Well, I suppose I should wrap this up and get to work.  Have some widget work and paperwork to do.  Plus I blew the first part of my evening watching the keynote from the Apple / Steve Jobs event earlier today.  An awesome and much needed refresh to the iPod line, let me tell ya!  Although after that iPhone price drop, why oh why didn’t I wait?!  I guess I really had no way of knowing, just like the other 800,000 iPhone owners from the past 2 months.  D’oh! 

Well, I finally did it. For months (maybe even over a year now) I’ve been contemplating what I should do with this space, this domain, mattjacoby.com. I’ve tried several different (short term) things, but nothing really seemed to pop out as a long term solution.But now with the right string of events and direction life and the Internet is going in now, I figured it couldn’t hurt to do a little blogging about life and my business ventures as well as my web and widget development services.If you’ve taken the time so far to read my first post, I thank you for making it this far and do hope you make it back or even subscribe to my RSS feed.