Sitecheck: Blogmusik - online music on demand

September 4th, 2006

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Blogmusik - online music on demand
It’s an online music service that unlike Pandora and Last.fm plays music on demand in a little flash player.
Basically a rip off of the Ipod interface which the Apple people aren’t gonna like. I’m pretty sure they’ll get a lawsuit on their hands if this gets any more popular.

  • It’s still a little buggy, something wrong with the next button, which is totally understandable cause it’s still in beta.
  • The site is very fast. It’s running php with a MySQL database backend. The player runs in Flash and not Ajax, as some people declare(this guy changed his mind as you’ll read in the comments section).
  • Sound quality is a little poor, but alright for a free online music service.
  • Large music collection but needs more indie stuff in my opinion
  • Needs some kind of tagging or whatever. You got song titles with track numbers in between, song titles with all caps on. Some kind of sorting option would be nice too.

All this site really needs to get big is something original.
This service seems to be running somewhere in France. Their blog does not give many details on where or who they are from. Though I ask myself the question on how legal this service is.
Pandora and Last.fm are music services that play songs based on your musical preference, but this plays on demand and you can create playlists. Basically it can replace someones mp3 collection and media player. I guess time will tell.

ARARIO GALLERY

September 2nd, 2006

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Take a look at the pictures from the Arario Gallery. It’s a physical manifestation of Michael Paulus’s drawings which represent realistic skeletons of not so realistic cartoon characters, like Bugs Bunny in the above picture. A fictional anatomy if you will.

KITT vs KARR showdown

September 2nd, 2006

KITT vs KARR showdown
This, my friends, is why the Internet rocks.
People who don’t know Knight Rider really missed out, it was a TV series from the 80s with David Hasselhoff. Yes, the guy from Baywatch. By the way he does music now, laugh.
TV never got any better than this.

Funny pic with Gary Coleman:

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