Sleddogs Kicking it EQO style

October 6th, 2006 by eqo

Sleddogs, widely known for being dogs that pull sleds in competitions such as the Iditarod, are also a band that won the first day of Bandcast 2006, the online battle of the bands brought to you by EQO. They hail from Winterpeg, Manitoba and Kelowna, BC, further proof that Canada, in addition to producing race winning top quality dogs, is pumping out sickly talented bands from the great white north. 

Chris, EQO

New EQO Mobile Alpha Release

September 15th, 2006 by eqo

The EQO Mobile Alpha is here. This is the second J2ME version of EQO Mobile and it features IM support for MSN, Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber as well as support for the EQO Message functionality that already exists in the EQO Mobile browser edition. Skype functionality is not build into this release, although that will likely not be the case in the near future. We’ve changed out implementation a bit and are now able to support a lot more phones, check out the list here. I must say that support for Windows Mobile and Blackberry devices is also coming soon.

Please give EQO Mobile a try and keep in mind that it’s an Alpha release. Please feel encouraged to share your findings of bugs in the EQO Mobile J2ME section of our forums. The team has worked super hard and crazy long hours to bring you this release, so please be kind! We’re now working hard to add additional functionality and bug fixes that will probably blow your mind, mostly via the functionality since the bug fixes will likely only leave you mildly excited.

Chris@EQO

EQO Frosh photo contest!

September 5th, 2006 by eqo

EQO
is looking for the wildest, most ridiculously hilarious pictures from
Frosh Week 2006!  We’re going to turn the winners into EQO Me widgets
that’ll be available to the entire world to post on their pages. If you
win you will be famous and probably rich too, so you should try to win.

What kind of pictures are we looking for?  The
sort of pictures that are so terribly embarrassing that your friends
will hate you for sending them to us.  Pictures that are so freaking cool people
will be compelled to send EQO Messages to your phone offering you money
to bask in your presence.  That’s what we want, is that too much to
ask?  Probably, but we’re asking anyway.

Images containing nudity will not be considered
for the grand prize of world wide acclaim and fabulous riches, but will
possibly be kept for our own amusement, I mean disposed of
appropriately.

ENTER HERE!

Chris
EQO Customer Evangelist
www.myspace.com/chriseqo

Back to School Shopping

September 3rd, 2006 by eqo

Back
to school, back to school… so sings Billy Madison when he heads back
to do Kindergarten again.  I wish I could do Kindergarten again.  Time
to go back to school shopping, check out Kirsten in our silly video.

Want to complain about how much going back to school sucks?  Tell EQO and we’ll make products that make school suck less.

 

Day 3 Champion and the end of BANDCAST2006!

August 25th, 2006 by eqo

It’s been a crazy week for us here at EQO. We worked like the slave dogs of really cranky slaves to bring you BANDCAST2006 and release EQO Me, both of which we are now quite pleased with. Thanks so much to all who listened, voted, and participated. It was fun and probably can’t be considered as real work for me, for which I am truly grateful.

The voting irregularities continue on Day 3 much to the surprise of the software company who constructed our voting widget. Congrats to who ever out there was pumping the system full of votes, we don’t know how you did it. The fact of the matter is that a lot of great bands were near the top and NewMusicWest got their group in the end. FIRE BUG was today’s big winner!

I’ve said this a lot, but I really like your tunes Fire Bug. I’m not a musical appreciation slut looking to praise everyone; we just had a lot of good bands competing. I’d buy CD’s from ten of them. So it’ll be Selddogs, Dan Mangan, and Fire Bug representing BANDCAST and EQO at NewMusicWest 2007. I look forward to seeing guys in action, as do your loyal fans I’m sure.

It’s been good times, back to real work for me, shoot.

Chris, EQO Customer Evangelist

Check out EQO ME at www.eqo.com. Put
wicked awesome cool widgets on your MySpace, Friendster and Tagworld
pages so your friends can send picture messages to your phone.

BANDCAST 2006 still awesome, day 2 rap up…

August 24th, 2006 by eqo

Day 2 of BANDCAST2006 has come to a close after another fabulous day of music appreciation. We
tightened up the voting restrictions on Day 2 and yet still there was
quite the irregularity with Burning Sensation building an impossibly
commanding lead. However, it didn’t matter because NewMusicWest reserved the right to choose the Day 2 winner from the top 5 vote getters. Sorry Burning Sensation, great as you are NewMusicWest has chosen DAN MANGAN as your BANDCAST2006 Day 2 winner!

Congrats Dan, I can truly say that I love your tunes and I’m sure you’ll make quite the impression at NewMusicWest 2007. This doesn’t change the fact that I’m in love with Andrea Revel and Kyler

England

, their sweet sounds lull me into a blissful state of contentment…

One day of BANDCAST2006 remains and there is one more spot at NewMusicWest available! The counter has been reset, so bands get your fans out for the last day! Fans, vote for your band into the top five!

Cheers to another great day, good luck and happy listening.

Chris, EQO Customer Evangelist

 

Check out www.eqo.com to get your own EQO Me
widget that lets your friends send messages to your phone from your
MySpace, Friendster or TagWorld pages.

BANDCAST 2006 officially awesome, extended to Friday!

August 23rd, 2006 by eqo

What up new music fans,

As
you likely know, BANDCAST2006, the online battle of the bands brought
to you by EQO and NewMusicWest, has been going on for 24
hours already. The good news is that its been awesome and the better news is that it will go on until Friday!

NewMusicWest
likes the set of twenty up and coming bands we’ve assembled and is
willing to offer up two more guaranteed spots at NewMusicWest 2007, the
premiere new music festival in Vancouver.

BANDCAST2006 will go on for the next two days and we’ll announce another winner at 6:00PM Eastern time each day. Bands, get your fans tuned in to vote for you! Fans, vote for your band! The bands are truly awesome! I’ve had a chance to chat with many of them and I’m trying to decide who I’m more in love with, Andrea Revel or Kyler England, they sing to my soul…

Now to the point, who won you ask? Well,
their fans really came out in droves to vote for them, congrats to our
first day winners Sleddogs!

And while you’re here check out EQO Me, pick up a free ringtone and enter for a chance to win iTunes gift certificates. EQO
Me lets you put widgets on your MySpace, Friendster, and Tagworld pages
so your friends can send you picture messages to your mobile phone!
Sign up at www.eqo.com!

Peace Out!

Chris, EQO Customer Evangelist

BANDCAST 2006

August 23rd, 2006 by eqo

Dear Friends,

There are only few hours left for Bandcast 2006. Come out to visit Our page and vote for  your favorite bands right now.

Kyler England, the rock star from Los Angeles, will appear online to chat with you today at 5:00pm EST. Don’t miss out.

EQO