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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.

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!

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 weve assembled and is willing to offer up two more guaranteed spots at NewMusicWest 2007, the premiere new music festival in Vancouver.

Tomorrow is the big day. I sit here on the eve of launch writing this as the developers and QA rush to put the finishing touches on the latest EQO product, the nature of which I shall not reveal until tomorrow morning. What I will tell you is that it's pretty freaking cool. Does it involve phones? Yes. Does it involve online communities? Yes. Do you need Skype to use it? No.

We know that other online communities will benefit from the online extension to mobile phones that EQO has aptly demonstrated. The EQO for Skype product really showed what we can do in bringing an online buddy list to the mobile phone. Now we're going to show the world how EQO technology can be applied to truly extend online communities such as Myspace, Friendster, and others to the mobile.

I vividly remember being overwhelmed the first time I checked out MySpace. The front page was just so cluttered and I didn’t find it to be particularly intuitive. I figured out how to signup and played around a little, never going back unless my email told me I had a message, which was always from a local band wanting me to listen to their likely poor quality music. MySpace didn’t suck me in like it has sucked in millions around the world. I was shocked to hear that Myspace gets about as many hits a day as Google! To be fair, they’ve since improved their interface and continually do so, but the uptake of MySpace still baffles me.

I’m not knocking MySpace here; I’m just not that in to presenting my image to the world. This could be explained by the fact that I’m in the mid twenties phase of my life. MySpace is definitely doing something right, beating out Friendster for the community crown. MySpace packs in many cool features and is clearly a compelling tool to the 15-25 demographic, whom they are hauling in faster than they can overplay Kelly Clarkson songs on the radio. There is no doubt why many more players are emerging in the online community scene for a piece of the MySpace dominated pie.