Soundpedia: A Decent Pandora Substitute For The Rest Of Us

Soundpedia is a legal Singapore based music sharing community offering a music streaming service that provides a decent Pandora substitute to users outside of the United States who can no longer use Pandora, along with the United States itself.

Soundpedia comes with the usual array of Web 2.0 music sharing functions. The site helps users discover new tunes and share them with friends. Soundpedia supports user playlists both interactively or by uploading existing playlist settings from music players. Users can chat with friends, post testimonials, make a comment on an artist, or make their own audio/ video blog.

In a different time it would be easy to dismiss Soundpedia as being yet another music sharing site entering a crowded marketplace. Yet Soundpedia meets an unmet need; it’s more Pandora than Last.fm and the world outside of the United States has been blocked from Pandora for a couple of months. Soundpedia is different to Last.fm. Sure, Last.fm music recommendations can be enjoyable but at other times you just want to listen to a particular artist or album. Soundpedia delivers with a thorough offering that may not be the most aesthetically pleasing service to use, but delivers with music. Music can be played by genre, artist or album and Soundpedia’s library is extensive. I did find the odd album that wasn’t fully included but instead songs were listed in 30 second clips. Co-Founder and NY native Gregory Gumo tells me that Soundpedia is increasing its playlist regularly; most users won’t notice any deficiency.

As non-American I’m missing Pandora’s functionality; Soundpedia just hit my Google Bookmarks list.

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JamJunky: Project Management For Song Writing

I’m no musician, but I was always under the impression that they sort of kept their song writing secret until they were ready to play it to the world. If that’s accurate, new startup JamJunky may not have much of an audience. They provide a place for song writers to write their lyrics, upload songs in progress and share them with friends. Artists can also write notes about their work.

Friends log in and view the work and comment on it blog-style. The artist can then incorporate feedback into the song.

If there are any song writers out there I’d love to hear your feedback. This doesn’t sound like the type of environment that an artist would want to work in, but like I said, I’m no musician.

CenterNetworks wrote about them today as well and included a nice overview video of the product.

The founder of the company, James Thomas, also created Skinnyr.

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Social Webbrowsers

Being on the internet for about 12 years and trying to keep up with what’s happening on it (and around it) I have been trying out several webbased services,tools and of course community’s lately (call it web 2.0 if you want to ….)Among those some of my favorites are of course the pioneers like del.ico.us, MySpace & Flickr but also more recently Podomatic, Imeem, WorkHack.com and many others.

Google analytics and other search engine tools and/or monetizing stuff (oh those fancy ict-words…) look verry prommising to… (still checking it out )Al those accounts and profiles and login pages and “pimping” or keeping these accounts updated and stay updated about what’s happening in that wonderfull multi-profile/purpose-cyber-network started to become (even with del.ico.us) a big task…

Some apps (immeem app , Myspace-Im ,… ) already had a part of the solution but today I discoverd the existense/development of a new type of so called “Social webbrowsers”.Basicly it started off when I was checking out how MySpace users send comments to several friend with one click. I don’t want to spam my friends but was looking if there was already a solution for something wich is defintly very usefull (keeping some old-school net-tiquette in mind of course).

First thing I discoverd was http://www.buddywave.com/ wich is already real nice application/browser(even if for now it’s windows only and mainly useful for MySpace pro’s. Layouts on MySpace have had their worst time (I hope) thanks to development of some decent on-line lay-out tools but BuddyWave makes it a real piece of cake to make a real nice design and manage your content in a browser-like environment…

This quote ont http://www.buddywave.com illustrates it quit well:

“BuddyWave, its like Viagra for Myspace.”

BuddyWave is just like Internet Explorer but built exclusively for Myspace users. Actually we built it for ourselves (recovering myspace addicts) but figured you might enjoy it as well. Whether you are the coolest cat on the net or your sputtering social life is in need of a jump start, Buddywave will take you to that higher level.So if you are an MySpace Addict (and OS Windows) defenitly check it out. (although I sincerly hope they would rather become the Firefox or Safari for Myspace …)

Back home I continued my research on these “social webbrowsers” and I stumbled on “Flock” (Mozilla bassed) (MAC OSX TIGER at home… so no buddywave (for now???) ) and was immediatly hooked on it. Instalation and imports in a sec , real nice skin but on top of this a browser wich (will soon) integrated and manage (hopefully) al your profiles and accounts seemlesly.

Right now it does for Flickr-users an PhotoBucket-users what Buddywave does for MySpace-addicts (making your uploadinglife and profilemanaging a lot more practical) Most of them already had their own apps but this browser will (again I hope verry soon) implement more types of community’s, profiles , blogs, and other web2,0 applictions.

Del.ico.us is already integrated in your browser favorites functions and a lot of nice (firefox)-extensions can be downloaded.No doubt about it I’m a Big Big Fan and very eager to see where this wil lead to. So be sure to check that out also if you want to keep up with al your nice profiles, (photo)blogs, newsfeeds, and so on and so on

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