The first 3 weeks of NotPaul have been fantastic — thanks to everyone for trying something new and for pursuing your passion for exceptional live music. The site has seen lots of fantastic concert concepts, lots of interesting show reviews, and tons of real bids… more than we’d hoped for in the first few weeks on all fronts.

We’ve been very busy (and quiet!) these past few working on a big update to the site that adds a whole new set of features. More on that next week. On that note, we’ll call out some of the stuff that’s been inspiring us recently:

- Beatport’s (www.beatport.com) amazingly fast flash music player is the best I’ve ever seen and has been inspiring us for a while; and don’t forget their amazing catalogue which you should start perusing if you have not already ($1.99 for a high-fidelity wav - it’s the deal of the century).

- Element Labs Helix (http://www.elementlabs.com/Helix.html) is something that you’ve almost definitely seen first hand if you’ve been to any major shows in the past few years. This is newsworthy only for the fact that things will change a lot on this front. Expect live displays to get a whole lot more impressive in the next 3 to 5 years. We know but we can’t tell.

- Music this week: Kid 606 has a new album out which is great but so does Senor Coconut which is awesome beyond typing. If you want to hear Daft Punk’s “Around the World” reinterpreted to samba sounds, look no further; our friend Uwe has it covered (the rest of the album is even better):

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=295857046&s=143441

http://www.buy.com/prod/around-the-world/q/loc/109/209749288.html 

http://www.amazon.com/Around-World-Se%C3%B1or-Coconut/dp/B0016ZLWPU/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1227249564&sr=8-1 

Is there an embeddable price-comparison widget out there?

Until soon,

the NotPaul team