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Music

I Found Love in a Double Wide Trailer

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Once in a while I come across a site that is so cool that I have to share it with you. I used to spend time on Myspace searching for different music artists to listen to. The thing about that was it wasn’t the easiest way to find new music to listen to. I don’t think the artist got paid when people listened to their music.

Enter Kerchoonz, a new site that pays artists when users listen to their music for free and legal. I just signed up for an account, which is free. I bounced around the site a bit and set up part of my profile. You can link to your social networks like Flickr, YouTube and Facebook. I’d like to see some Twitter integration too. Either showing your twitter stream or the ability to tweet out a message about an artist that you are listening to. I do like that you can make favorites of the songs you listen to so that when people visit your profile they can see who you like and you can introduce others to some great musical talents.

As for the artists I immediately found Amy Speace. Her song Double Wide Trailer is a fun country song. I just love the tune. I’ve listened a few times the tune is catchy and fun. Amy also has a nice voice and her band is rocking. I would have had no clue who she was if I hadn’t joined Kerchoonz.

The video below is Kerchoonz Live featuring the band Fortunate Sons. They have a wonderful sound, bluesy, folky and rock. This is what I love so much about the internet I find some excellent music all the time, Kerchoonz is certainly the place to find new artists that love playing.

When you join Kerchoonz look up my profile, username is BenSpark.

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Blogging

Connect through your stuff… eventually

I took a look at a new social networking site today that lets you connect with people based on the “stuff” in your life. The site is called Acobay and I think it needs to make some improvements before it can become a premiere consumer network. I signed up and tried to upload an avatar photo, I received an error because my photo was too large. Had I known the photo was going to be too large I would not have attempted to upload it. It wasn’t until I received the error that I saw the file size limitation. The same thing happened when I tried to upload a photo of my car, but that time I received no indication of the maximum file size possible. I got frustrated with the site very quickly.

Eventually I posted a few photos of my stuff, well just my cell phone and then went to try and connect with people, not easy, not intuitive but could be improved. For one thing there are symbols all over the site and there isn’t any alternate text or tool tips that appear when you mouse over the images. Having something as simple as that would have gone very far towards making the site more user friendly. More work needs to be done to the site to make it better but the idea is interesting and might be worth another look when the interface is a bit more refined.