January 21st, 2009

Fuzz.com Hits Deadpool, Spin-Off Blip.fm Alive And Well

Until today, we weren’t even aware of the fact that San Francisco startup Fuzz operated a social network / music discovery destination website besides its (awesome) spin-off Blip.fm, the “Twitter for music“. We only found out about that now that we’ve learned that the service, Fuzz.com, will apparently cease to exist shortly.

Here’s the notice, which can be found on their blog and was also… → Read More

October 15th, 2008

Blip.fm, The "Twitter for Music", Gets Its Own API

When Fuzz launched a microblogging service for music aficionados called Blip.fm last May, no one in the company expected it to rise above the status of an experiment. But before long, Blip.fm’s traffic began to eclipse that of Fuzz’s main site, which provides an altogether different service for bands that want to cultivate their fan base.

Fuzz’s attention has now turned primarily to Blip.fm as… → Read More

May 12th, 2008

Twitter for Music

Twitter is an efficient technology for spreading and harvesting concise ideas. Unfortunately, it’s not so great for sharing rich media. Want to broadcast a video? You’ll have to settle for a TinyURL to YouTube, or maybe switch over to Seesmic altogether. Pownce improves on the Twitter model by supporting file transfers and at least one new data type: the structured event. It also… → Read More