Blip is 'Twitter, for music'

If, like me, you are always looking for new music, or forcing your favourite bands upon your friends' cloth ears, Blip might just be for you.

Described by its developer, Fuzz, as 'Twitter for music', with Blip you can share whatever song takes your fancy, along with a little message as to why it's currently stuck in your head. Once your mates have added themselves as listeners to your profile, just sit back and listen to a real-time playlist of all the tracks they've Blipped, or to really expand your musical horizons, a tracklist of the whole network's latest updates.

Fuzz's database, which also uses Seeqpod and Skreemr to get tracks, passed my first (admittedly not exactly strenuous) tests, with a couple of obscure/defunct electro acts popping up as well as a few popular independent bands. Once your track is picked, add a short message (the 'moment' I shared with Jemina Pearl at a be your own PET gig - to the sounds Adventure) and you're free to Blip.

As is pretty much an absolute requirement, the service works with a bunch of other popular blogging platforms (including Twitter, Pownce, Tumblr and Livejournal to name but a few), allowing you to automatically update everything with your Blips in one go.

On first impression, my only gripes are 1: (as far as I can see) the player doesn't pop out into its own window, so you can't navigate away from the Blip site if you want to keep listening; and 2: Blip is another addition to the long, long line of web apps with rubbish names.

Apart from those heinous errors, though, Blip is a worthwhile app for music lovers to have bookmarked alongside last.fm and the Hype Machine.

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Posted by Richard Gilzene on May 15, 2008 2:36 PM in Winners!
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