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If your Twitter home page is filled with messages from friends linking out to other web sites where you can watch a video, read and article, or listen to a song, Blip might be for you. While Twitter is 100% text based, people tend to use the micro-blogging service to share links to multimedia files. Blip, on the other hand, is a micro-blogging service with an integrated music search engine and audio player.

Here's how it works. Once you create an account, you can type the name of a band or song into the "What are you listening to?" box. The question's a bit disingenuous because Blip doesn't really care what you're currently listening to. Instead, it will pull up a bunch of songs matching your query. Thanks to Seeqpod integration, you can actually listen to songs without leaving the web page.

Once you've picked a song, you can enter a short message to go along with your music. When your Blip "listeners" (contacts, followers, whatever you want to call them) login to their home pages they'll see a list of updates from their friends, along with the songs their listening to. Click on any message and the song will start playing.

You can also link Blip to other social networking services including Twitter, FriendFeed, Pownce, Jaiku, LiveJournal, and Tumblr. We tested this out with Twitter, and while Blip did end a message to our Twitter contacts letting them know what we were listening too, it left out the text portion of our Blip.

[via TechCrunch]