Muxtape
I should link to muxtape, in part to celebrate it’s brilliantness as the best-yet incarnation of a potent concept, in part in appreciation for it’s effective design (design in the good sense) and in part to remind myself to make better use of it in the few remaining days I have umbilically ubiquitous internet connectivity.
April 20th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
That potent concept article is nice, but it’s written in 2003, so you’re missing out on several sites which have been making it possible to make online mixtapes in the past few years…
2004 - imeem.com launched
2006 - projectplaylist.com launched
2007 - seeqpod.com launched
2008 - mixwit and muxtape
imeem.com currently hosts mixes from 20 million users, muxtape boasts 100,000 - muxtape is nice, simple, well designed, but imeem is popular, established, legal and feature rich.
April 20th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Also don’t forget:
1999 - live365 launched
(full disclosure: I helped manage Live365 before leaving a couple years back)