Man, it’s been a long time since I’ve found something I’ve liked so much!

If you’re one of those with a musical personality, you’ll love this site. It’s Twitter on a micro-blogging+musical high.

Why it rocks:

• Full length, awesome songs you can “tweet” or blip about.
• Easy song search
• Twitter/Friendfeed,etc synchronization (smart move!)
• Option to embed the track in blogs, social networking sites
• Easy one click to buy the mp3 from Amazon (I need to figure how to work this)
• Strategic adding of “djs” means Blip.fm could become your new radio
• Automatic playing of the Blips means song after song of music goodness as recommended by people (with hopefully similar musical tastes).
• If not, there is always the option of removing them from your list.
• Playlist creation enabled

Not so hot:

• The flash interface keeps acting up, I haven’t quite figured out what about the sequence of blipping causes it.
• The server occasionally lags.
• A very minute minority of the songs take eons to load.
• Unpopular (but rare) gems of songs are likely not to be uploaded by users and hence not featured.
• The embedding of tracks does not seem to load on some blogging platforms. Might be code related, might not.
• I just found out that “Amazon MP3 is currently limited to US customers.” Now they tell me. This SUCKS.
  

Nevertheless, I am having loads of fun with this! It’s a sticky, sticky site and it has my props.

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