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Blip.fm adds YouTube videos

by Brad Linder May 21st 2009

Blip.fm music videos
Last week "twitter for music" service Blip.fm announced that most of its music would be streaming from imeem. This week, the company added YouTube music videos, which not only greatly expands Blip.fm's music library, it also gives users a reason to hang out on the web site rather than using third party clients like Blipster. Well, a tleast until someone develops a good desktop client that will let you send and receive updates, listen to music, and watch videos.

You can now use Blip.fm as a sort of music video search engine, whether you want to share songs with friends or not. If you do want to let people know what you're watching or listening to, you can send messages with links to songs or videos with just a click. You can also link Blip.fm to your Twitter account so that your friends don't even need to be signed up for Blip.fm to know that you harbor a secret Def Leppard addiction.

[via GigaOm]

Tags: blip.fm, music, music-videos, youtube

Filed under: Audio, Web services, Social Software, Web

Blip.fm partners hits speedbumps, partners with imeem

by Brad Linder May 15th 2009

Blip.fm
Blip.fm is sort of like Twitter for music. Instead of telling people what you're doing or thinking about in 140 characters or less, you can tell your contacts what you're listening to. Oh yeah, the site also features an integrated music search engine and media player that lets you find and listen to the songs you're talking about or listen to your friends' playlists.

In other words, like 90% of the other web based music startups (that's a totally made up figure, by the way), Blip.fm was kind of lawsuit-bait. So it shouldn't be surprising to see that the company has made a few changes, including a partnership with music social netowrking site imeem.

Starting this week, all music available through Blip.fm is actually streaming from imeem. And that means you only get access to free and legal music. Unless you're outside of the US, in which case you probably won't be able to stream songs at all. International users can still let people know what they're listening to via short messages, but they won't be able to use Blip.fm as a music player.

It also means that old blips will be replaced with content available from imeem where possible. But if you were sharing links to music from artists that aren't in the imeem catalog, those blips will stop working.

Blip.fm is working on additional partnerships, so the media catalog could grow in time, and there may be hope for international users. But for now, it sounds like Blip.fm is going through a pretty rocky period.

[via Techcrunch]

Tags: blip.fm, imeem, music

Filed under: Audio, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Freeware, Social Software, web 2.0, Web

Blipster brings Blip.fm music/micro-blog service to the desktop

WindowsMacLinuxby Brad Linder Apr 13th 2009

Blipster
Blip.fm is kind of like Twitter meets Seeqpod. That is, it's a service that lets you send short messages to your contacts, accompanied by streaming music. We first looked at Blip.fm last summer.

But here's the thing about Twitter: Most of the people I know that use the service regularly use third party Twitter clients on their desktops, cellphones, or other devices instead of using the Twitter web interface. As it turns out, Blip.fm is also a lot cooler when you pair it with third party software like Blipster.

Blipster is a desktop client for Blip.fm that runs on Adobe AIR, which means it can work with Windows, Mac, and Linux computers. You can use Blipster to search for music, listen to songs, see the latest messages and songs from your contacts, and even add new people to follow. If you find someone who shares your musical tastes, you can add them as a contact and listen to the songs they're blipping.

Blipster also features Last.fm integreation which lets you find similar artists. It also has beta support for Last.fm's scrobbling feature which is designed to offer improved recommendations based on the music you've already played.

[via Go2Web20]

Tags: blip.fm, blipster, music

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