The rest is just gravy
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Kitty and Gertrudis are a little late jumping into the whole social networking scene. They’ve pooh-poohed My Space, Twitter, Flickr, and their ilk, but now they’re starting to see the appeal since they discovered Unitedcats.
Check out their new profiles over there. They have photos, blogs, and (hopefully soon) other kitty friends!
Okay, RSS from library catalog, cool. RSS from Amazon tags… infinitely cooler. Sorry to all my colleagues.
I can’t believe I haven’t heard about this before. Check out midomi.com. It’s an online music retail site that lets you search for tracks by singing them! You just hook up your microphone and sing or hum a few bars of a song and bam. There’s your song. And it actually works! After you find your song, you can listen to a 30-second sample of the original recording and buy a digital copy of the song in either mp3 (unprotected?!) or Windows Media format (presumably with Microsoft DRM). Hey, as long as it’s not iTunes- or Zune-related, I’m happy.
There is one catch. Your vocal input isn’t matched against the original recording. To find the correct match, another user out in the world must have already recorded a vocal sample. But that’s even cooler in my mind. It’s a social networking site for compulsive singers! Your recordings can be “favorited” and rated by other users and you can send private messages to them.
Great. Now my weekend is shot. If you need me, I’ll be sitting on the couch in my underwear singing showtunes into my USB microphone.
Ladies and gentlemen, Supermarket 2.0.
Hey everybody, Kitty Carlisle is a rockstar! She made the cover of “I Can Has Cheezburger!” Hooray!
Now go vote for her picture.
