supposed Myspace-killer virb.com had its public launch a week or so ago. for those who haven’t checked it out: virb claims to be “Myspace done right” (that’s not the official tagline of course, rather the meme that’s been spreading). “done right” in a techno-elitist way the majority of Myspace-users would never care about. somehow hardcore [...]
currently in private beta, Teapotters is a community for 3D-artists sharing their creations. models are rendered in browser using the 3D Life Player-plugin.
leading music-recommendation service Pandora introduced some community-related features earlier this week (check their official blog for the full scope). however, listener-profiles (including listings of tracks which received most thumbs-ups & -downs) and a very basic search for listeners, artists & stations can’t really keep up with advanced community-features offered by last.fm. f.e., Pandora lacks last.fm’s [...]
Tooum’s Switchboard (currently in public beta) is a free, hosted service integrating popular blogging-features with classic discussion-based forum-functioniality. although Switchboard offers only very limited functionality at the moment, the basic idea seems appealing and could very well lead to a solid Wordpress-plugin…
experimenting with Splice for the first time is quite an experience: using a flash-based online-sequencer, users arrange audio-loops and soundbites very similar to desktop apps like Reason or Fruity Loops. editing-functionality is reduced to the basics: clips are looped and automatically beat-matched on up to eight tracks which can only be adjusted in volume and [...]