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We’ve improved UJAM once again, and our newest release is live today. It’s all about a streamlined user experience, better help mechanisms, and sharing UJAM fun with your friends. Here’s some of what you will find:

Invite your friends and be rewarded: Music is much more fun when you’re sharing it with friends. For every friend who signs up upon your invitation we’ll add a slot to your song page – that’s one more song you can store for free. If that’s not enough, then completing your UJAM Artist Profile will earn you up to 2 more.

UJAM Studio: It’s the most intuitive layout yet, so creating and editing songs is even easier. Plus, our new Online Help gives you context-based guidance when you need it.

New Top 5 Songs: Have a listen, these may be our hottest yet.

We are hiring! If you want to be part of the UJAM Team, check out our latest job offerings in Germany. Learn more about what it’s like to work at UJAM and discover if you’ve got what it takes to join our team.

Your new studio awaits you at UJAM. Be on the look out for a newsletter with even more tips and tricks, plus a special sneak peek coming up. Have fun!

The International Songwriting Competition of 2011 is nearing a close – the deadline for entries is November 1st. That’s 8 whole days to finalize and submit a track to be judged by Kelly Clarkson, Ozzy Osbourne, Tori Amos, Massive Attack, and many other big-name artists. Not intimidating at all, right?

I didn’t realize this, but the ISC gives prizes away in loads of categories – everything from Americana to Blues to Novelty to Latin … 66 prizes across all the categories, PLUS honorable mentions, and one Grand Prize winner!

Among all those great songs and artists from last year’s contest, the one that strikes me most is this video, 1st Place Winner in the Music Video category, by Jorge Moreno:

I’m thankful for the songwriting contest for giving so many deserving people recognition for their talents. Good luck to this year’s entries!