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Interview: OKCool, the First Facebook Record Label?

While MySpace may have long cornered the attention of the music industry as far as social networking sites goes, with its phenomenal growth over recent months Facebook can no longer be ignored as a channel for music marketing and distribution. Recently English developers Pushhit turned their attention to Facebook as a music distribution channel with the launch of the MusicWall application (link requires Facebook login).

MusicWall is a Facebook application that allows for the streaming download of MP3 files, and the sharing of tracks with other Facebook users. After developing the application, the developers decided that it wasn't enough to have developed the delivery mechanism, they wanted a say in the music as well, and so OKCool Recordings was formed. Since launching the label and the Facebook application just a week ago , OKCool has been joined by Web savvy label SMtv Music and drum and bass artist DJ Krust and other labels are approaching Pushhit every day.

With MusicWall still boxfresh at only a week old, I spoke to Pushhit director Mark Panay about developing MusicWall, OKCool and developing for the world's fastest growing social networking site.

Download Squad: What is the background of Pushhit and the MusicWall?

Mark Panay: Ok-Cool.com was set up as a bit of fun where we can post silly stuff, things that we've learned and progress on our projects. We have a few projects on the go; we run a company called SimpleWeb ltd for which we've created a client/website management system with a funky online page editor for small businesses, this is our bread and butter and is coming along nicely since starting at the beginning of the year. We also have a longstanding project called pushhit - we created a prototype of this late last year, tested it in the wild with a handful of users and have now turned this into a company - pushhit ltd. We have just secured some angel funding to progress this further and Music Wall is the first released project under the pushhit banner. The pushhit ethos: social publishing and distribution, we've termed this Digital Gossip...

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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