I haven't used Rolling.fm yet but a few design elements stuck out immediately:
- The look and feel is really like Apple vs. Android with the avatars and overall aesthetic bearing resemblence to MSN Messenger.
- On Rolling.fm, the avatars face left and right whereas on Turntable, you see the back of the heads emulating the feel/atmosphere of going to a live show. This little detail made a big difference to me and gave me the impression that the Turntable folks have more of a focus on the music experience.
I think the Rolling.fm site looks more like an avatar chat site with neat music features. If someone took the same concept and instead streamed videos on Netflix, that would be super interesting too since it would be like entering a "matinee" type of show and people can room chat like on Mystery Science Theater 3000.
I'm going to continue on this since the ideas are coming non-stop:
- On Turntable.fm, they should make the Avatars and volume level respond to your rating of the songs. So let's say you think a song is awesome, your Avatar should move closer to the stage vs. if you don't like a song, you should move to the back of the room + the volume should get lower until the next song.
- Another pivot could be using music as a theme for an avatar based dating site. Music + Dating has always been a great pair together (think Say Anything or High Fidelity).
- The look and feel is really like Apple vs. Android with the avatars and overall aesthetic bearing resemblence to MSN Messenger. - On Rolling.fm, the avatars face left and right whereas on Turntable, you see the back of the heads emulating the feel/atmosphere of going to a live show. This little detail made a big difference to me and gave me the impression that the Turntable folks have more of a focus on the music experience.
I think the Rolling.fm site looks more like an avatar chat site with neat music features. If someone took the same concept and instead streamed videos on Netflix, that would be super interesting too since it would be like entering a "matinee" type of show and people can room chat like on Mystery Science Theater 3000.