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Wikia gets into the lyrics business, acquires LyricWiki
In the process of snapping up LyricWiki, Wikia also negotiated a licensing deal for the song lyrics themselves, so there's no worry about record companies trying to shut the site down. Wikia runs on open-source wiki software and doesn't show tons of ads, like every other lyric site you'll stumble upon if you try Googling for song lyrics. It also has the advantage of a large number of users to correct the lyrics, so you're likely to find more accurate results than on sites that function more as banner-ad billboards than lyrics collections.
[via VentureBeat]
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Josh said 5:50PM on 10-20-2009
What does this mean for lyric adding apps like for itunes?
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Josh said 6:13PM on 10-20-2009
Hopefully they will begin working again. From what I have seen, the record companies forced LyricWiki to stop allowing this functionality a while back.
Ji said 11:42PM on 10-20-2009
Hopefully it becomes more popular, it really is/can be the best Lryic site, all others are just junk with ads and scrolling flash junk with love hearts lol.
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