TWITTER is cool, but if you like listening to music while you surf and micro-blog, you might want to check out Blip.
I previously blogged about Blip, which allows you to let people know what you’re listening to and share the music with them by embedding an MP3 in your Blip update.
In an e-mail interview, I talked to Jeff Yasuda, CEO of Fuzz.com, the company behind Blip.
TWITTER asks you: “What are you doing?” Blip, however, not only allows you to microblog, but also asks: “What are you listening to?”
You can let people know which music you’re listening to at the moment by searching for the MP3 on the site, and then blipping it, which automatically includes the song in your update. Other users can then click on your blip to play the song, and if they like it, they can then buy the song on Amazon.com. You can check out the profile I created.
It’s an interesting service which is still in beta. Blip is actually part of Fuzz.com, which aims to help music lovers keep track of their favorite bands and share music with their friends, while allowing artists to promote their music. You can upload songs you’ve purchased to your music library or choose from Fuzz’s playlists, create mixtapes, blog, add photos, list events, and write local news.
Check out Blip if you love music, and see if it’s a good alternative while Twitter is still erratic 
Stumbled upon this site via Mashable.
LAST week, we held our dry run in using Twitter for our Tales of the Nomad blog, with our multimedia reporter Izah Morales and online videographer Janie Christine Octia twittering their journey to Lucban, Quezon and the actual Pahiyas festival itself, and multimedia specialist Erika Tapalla giving updates on the AsiaPay event at Mag:net Cafe at Bonifacio High Street.
Check out the Tales of the Nomad Twitter page at twitter.com/talesofthenomad. The updates are also available via the Twitter badge at our Tales of the Nomad blog.
Oh, and yup, I’ve also decided to give in to Twitter, heh, I know, I know, better late than never So if you have time, check out twitter.com/joeyatplay
Cheers!
HAVE you already tried Wikia Search, the new search engine from the people behind Wikipedia? This project has been one year in the making, but the alpha version is now open to the public. (By the way, as I previously blogged, Google interestingly enough has announced a Wikipedia-like service called Knol.)
I’m trying it out but as you can expect at this early stage, there’s no way I’d choose this over Google. Wikia Search is pretty up front about the quality of its search results at this stage:
Wikia is working to develop and popularize a freely licensed (open source) search engine. What you see here is our first alpha release.
We are aware that the quality of the search results is low..
YUP, I’ve finally succumbed to Facebook as well — are you happy, Erwin, hehe Just joined today after accepting one of the invitations I’ve received.
Gotta admit, Facebook is pretty cool. Much better interface and cleaner layout than other social networking sites (*cough* MySpace *cough*).
Check out my profile badge
