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Re: Blip Is Twitter For Music Discovery [podcast]

Daretoeatapeach — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:47:32 -0000

I am not a fan of twitter but I am addicted to Blip.fm. It already has more users than you need to have constantly streaming music from DJs you like. The site is designed to encourage you to subscribe to more DJs. The first time you sign up, it finds 30 DJs that share your taste and every song you blip gives you the opportunity to add more. You can repost any song to a long list of sites. For example, without going to myspace.com I can post a song (using Blip) to either my homepage or a blog. Because messaging is required, you get to know the DJs more than you would for any other streaming music site. The users tend to come from a wide variety of countries, and that adds to the diversity of music you can discover. For those looking who love building a web presence, the microblog builds up subscribers fast. They've only launched a few months ago and I have close to 3,000 listeners---none of whom I know personally.

Re: Blip Is Twitter For Music Discovery [podcast]

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Re: Blip Is Twitter For Music Discovery [podcast]

Bernardojrodriguez — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:10:37 -0000

Two issues to look at: (1) hard to believe it is legal: it is not webcasting and blip has not bought rights from labels and (2) automatic refresh works for low traffic but does not scale. The only long term solution is to do P2P.

Fun idea, but they will need to focus on legal issues and scalability in the medium term. Today (unlike yesterday) I have seen very few good VCs that fund ventures that are breaking copyright laws.

Re: Blip Is Twitter For Music Discovery [podcast]

Adam Wexler — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:10:47 -0000

I really like the concept as a whole, but it will need a significant amount of traffic to be useful IMO. If you can't locate others with similar tastes, how useful can it really be?

Re: Blip Is Twitter For Music Discovery [podcast]

Aidan Nulman -- Two Notes Ahea — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:41:57 -0000

I checked out the site a few days ago, it seems pretty cool. The only thing that seems to really be holding it back in my mind is a desktop platform.

C'mon Mashable, use your heavyweight status and get Blip to release an API? And, while you're at it, can you get the Twhirl guys to support it? Pretty please?