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in love with: part one: thesixtyone.com

5/1/2008

i have started out 2008 thinking there is nothing new under the electronic sun… and lamenting that new, fun discoveries for great web services and interesting apps were going to be few and fare between in this new year… and then, in 60’s batman fashion i get a WHAMMO! and find a handful of AWESOME new apps/ sites/ stuff that i am immediately in love with… useful, fun, innovative, clean & free… i’ll post the best ones here over the next few days… and who knows, i might even do a podcast about it soon! a djp one or even a mustard flava one with the boys!

anyway the first awesome new tech thang for 2008:
THE SIXTY ONE DOT COM
according to the site: “Our Mission: thesixtyone is a music discovery game that rewards those who help others listen to good new music. Any artist can add their music to thesixtyone in a process that’s fast and simple.”
sounds dumb, but is excellent and the overall quality of the music i’ve discovered in the last few days has been great. basically you sign up and start listening to songs you’ve never heard before. if you are the type {which i am} you can “bump” songs, get points, discover new songs, etc etc…
here is the main screen once you’ve signed in- it has a list of what’s “hot” in the centre, genre list on the left, and new stuff on the right.

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three little features that i dug straight away:
>it plays the song in the top menu bar and you can pretty much click on any link on the site, go anywhere on the site and the song keeps playing without skipping a beat.
>it has little pop up messages on the site, sorta like pop-up video on VH-1. the messages might give you facts about the song you are listening to or about new points you’ve earned, or warnings, it’s cool with out being annoyingly cute.
>it links to youtube video clips in each song in real nice way…

and if you are into the “bumping” thing, here is what that looks like when listening to the new stuff on “the rack” {sounds dumb and confusing, but trust me, it’s cool!}