Zune Live at the BBQ: NYC

re: Zune Live at the BBQ: NYC

ian — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 17:05:00 GMT

The BBQ in BK yesterday was good but WHERE WERE THE PEOPLE?? The park was basically 80% empty for most of the day until the headliner LL Cool J came on at 9pm. This was in stark contrast to the Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival a few weeks ago in the exact same loaction (and whose set-up and idea Zune seems to have bitten wholesale?) which had thousands of people in attendance. I dunno who did the marketing and promotion for this event but trying to keep it super-secret and telling webmasters and bloggers they couldn't post the set times online was a major mistake and marred what could have been an amazing event. Oh well....

New Music Friday: Thirty-Fourth Edition

Zune Insider — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 15:55:54 GMT

Is it still Friday somewhere? Probably not; my bad. But New Music Saturday Friday lives on. Ready for

Cesar OTG (off the grid) August 7-27

Zune Insider — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:07:43 GMT

Starting Tuesday of next week, I'll be off the grid for three weeks. During that time, I'm going to put

re: Zune Live at the BBQ: NYC

Drea Avellan "pinksage" — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:28:59 GMT

Oh man, I love these events. Such a great way to give back to us. I really want to go to this event, but I will be traveling... ahhh :(

re: Zune Live at the BBQ: NYC

Most Awesomest (Eddie) — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:05:00 GMT

Haha, I hear you John. I think most of us do.

re: Zune Live at the BBQ: NYC

John in S.Florida — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:57:06 GMT

Robbie Bach said yesterday, "Media Center had a huge year. We're now at 45 million Media Center licenses in the marketplace -- big progress in getting Media Center into people's hands and getting people using that."

Seems to me that Zune would be crazy not to have stronger tie-ins to Media Center.

re: Zune Live at the BBQ: NYC

admin — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:21:08 GMT

eddie - I go for a few reasons.

The events are a blast.

Lots of times I meet other bloggers or folks in the Zune community at these events.

I document the event and post about it - believe me or not, the silent majority of blog readers are interested :)

I also go to support the event management and marketing teams.

re: Zune Live at the BBQ: NYC

Most Awesomest (Eddie) — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:16:04 GMT

Cesar, this has been going through my mind alot lately. I dont think you go to the BBQs just to go. What exactly do you go for? To get people's opinions? Or are you just going for the fun of it?

re: Zune Live at the BBQ: NYC

admin — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:28:58 GMT

luna - check out www.ilikemyzune.net to find out what's going on in your area - we have a ton of concerts and marketing going on this summer :)

re: Zune Live at the BBQ: NYC

Ricardo Dawkins — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:26:58 GMT

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/stuff/20070724/ttc-microsoft-zune-finally-on-the-way-6017cbb.html

Good news for the other side of the pond!

re: Zune Live at the BBQ: NYC

Jason — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:18:13 GMT

@Sean. Happy consumers = better word of mouth = more sales. Right now there are a lot of dissappointed Zune users who are waiting on updates, not BBQs. I see a lot of upset users here who could most likely be swayed to the dark side very easily (Ipod with wireless downloads).

Thanks you Cesar for addressing my question. I agree with others on here that we do need another insider that can give us the information that we are requesting.

Cesar, you are doing your job and doing it well, but you must understand that your blog is our only insite to the new features we have been promised.

Major Nelson covers all aspects of the Xbox 360. If we could have something like that, I think a lot of users would be satisfied.

Thanks,

Jason

re: Zune Live at the BBQ: NYC

lunaclown — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:04:46 GMT

Are there ever going to be Zune events in the midwest/south (texas, oklahoma, kansas)?

re: Zune Live at the BBQ: NYC

Jaxim — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:02:44 GMT

Agreed. Wait to bring up the topic of firmware updates when the blog post is somewhat related. This BBQ posting is not related to the Zune 2.0 or Zune updates.

re: Zune Live at the BBQ: NYC

Sean — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:28:21 GMT

@Jason. This post that Cesar made was about the Zune BBQ concert not about new Zune features.

re: Zune Live at the BBQ: NYC

admin — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:22:37 GMT

Jason - Right now I don't have specifics to share on new features, timing, etc.