Imeem is another Internet social network that is becoming very popular lately. It is an online community where musicians / artists, directors, photographers, and groups can promote, recommend or discover art, blogs, photos, music, films / videos and pop culture media. Similar to other networks on Internet, you can become social by building a friends (or fans) list in order to stay connected with them by informing updates or receiving updates from them. There are three basic things you can do on Imeem:
* Discover: You can browse thousands of musical videos, photos, group or personal blogs and profiles posted on Imeem. As usual, you stay up-to-date with news from your fans and friends network.
* Interact: You can comment, rate and share content on your network in order to promote it or simply because you want to notify something. Also, you can create groups about a specific topic (for example: musical bands or a special event). Or just participate in discussions about any topic with other users.
* Share: Imeem allows you to promote your content by sharing it with your friends. So, if you are a musician, a film maker, a photographer or a painter, then Imeem is a great opportunity to publicize your work and ask for opinions. Or maybe you only want to recommend stuffs from other sources to your friends.
Take a look at Imeem now: Click here
Musana is a cool project in Private Beta (you need an invitation ticket to sign up) that will allow users to enjoy their digital music anywhere by storing the files in a music center available on the web or your cell phone. The service is based in France.
You will be able to upload the MP3 files from your computer (adding tunes) and create your music library in order to reproduce them as you would in front of your personal computer. The Musana Team has developed a sketch of the control panel in the homepage. There, you must grab a CD from the sample music library, drops it onto the middle of the page and then insert the CD into the virtual music player on the right (developed with Adobe Flash). Obviously, you should choose the tunes you want to listen to. You have some buttons similar to a music player: Pause, CD skip and Play.
I have tried Musana out for a while and I have to say that the interface is really friendly and easy to use. Although it is a simple idea, I think many people will be glad to have a locker where they can store their music for free. Besides that, I have not seen any advertising on the site, which is cool, but maybe we will see it in the future.
Musana also have community capabilities because you can share your music with friends and comment about the tunes, artists, covers, etc. And you can get music recommendations according to your own taste, too.
If you want to request an invitation code, please click here (you can see the “Join button” there).
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If you have a blog/website and you like to quote other websites frequently, then you should take a look at Kwout: a new tool on Internet to grab a part of a website and put on your website, Flickr or Tumblr. This is a simple tool but it could save your time. With Kwout you make a quote in three quick steps:
1- Grab a screenshot. You go to Kwout homepage and type the URL of the page you want to quote. Or, if you prefer, you can use the Kwout bookmarklet on your browser, so you only have to click the bookmarklet when you are on the page to be quoted.
2- Cut out an area. Kwout will show you a screenshot of the whole page where you must select the area that you wish to quote. You select it by using the mouse.
3- Post it to anywhere. Finally, you can grab the HTML code in order to put it on your website. Also, there is an utility to post the quote on Flick or Tumblr quickly.
More info: Click here
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MOG is a blogging network for music lovers where users can publish thoughts about music and also they can share the names of the songs that they play on their computers (PC or Mac) by using a downloadable program called MOG-O-MATIC that runs in the background and automatically detects songs that you have in your computer folders. (Previously, you must configure the folders which MOG-O-MATIC will search on).
It is a blogging network because you can compose posts about your favorite artists, songs or albums. Even you can add videos from a third party like You Tube. And other people can comment about your posts and vote for them (”Like It” button).
MOG is also a social network for music lovers (musicians or fans) and you can find some friends (”moggers”) to share musical tastes. You can use a link “Find MOGs like me” in your MOG page, once you have signed up (for free). Or You can search for a person’s real name, but unless you get it exactly right, you will not get any results. You can also search for a person’s Screen Name if you know it.
To listen the full songs in this musical network you must be a a Rhapsody subscriber, which costs $12 per month. Anyway, non-subscribers will still be treated to the free streaming of 25 songs per month if they download a small application. The bad news are for the residents outside of the United States, because they only can listen 30-second-long samples at this time. Of course, residents within the United States can listen the samples too if they don’t want to download anything or pay for the premium service.
More info: Click here
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We continue covering the Web 2.0 boom and at this time we take a look at an startup in beta phase that claims to have some functions similar to Twitter or Facebook but being focused on the capacity to build video-based communities.
The service is closed to the public yet and it is necessary to sign up in order to have the chance to become a beta tester. According to the founder (the European entrepreneur Loic Le Meur), the system will allow to the users to post videos recorded from their own webcam or share videos from a third party like YouTube. Also, similar to Facebook, the users will be able to know their friends’ novelties by a news feed system publishing the new posts shared by the members.
Future plans for the system include the ability to record conversations through Skype, videochat and the integration for easy use with Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, del.ici.ous, Joost and other websites.
Loic Le Meur says a part of Seesmic could end up being an Internet TV system whose contents are produced by the most talented users who would have the possibility of generating revenues by those contents.
If you are interested to be a beta tester for this system, please go to the webiste and fill out the short form. http://seesmic.com
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