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Money making adventures and miscellaneous ramblings…

Deviating from the recent trend of posts all related to making money through domain names and whatnot, I have decided to write a a review on iPod Games. More specifically, a single iPod Game by the name of “Phase.” The majority of people have probably never heard of this game, and it’s quite a shame. Phase is very similar to Guitar Hero (Harmonix developed it, the same company that was active in developing GH and Rock Band) - it relies on split-second timing and beat/sound recognition.

For those of you who use StumbleUpon regularly, and have chosen music as an interest, you are probably well aware of this service. However for the rest of you, I have written this neat little review to introduce you to the service, as well as explain a little bit about it.

To put it plainly, Musicovery is really a service for musical exploration, for finding new songs that are extremely similar to your favorites. The service allows you to narrow your search by style, genre, mood, decade, tempo and more. It starts you off with a random song based on your preference and then stems out into other songs that are similar to the previous one in title, content, inspiration, and many other factors.

Let Them Sing It For You is a service that came out in ‘05. I heard about it on the radio when I was down in Canada for winter vacation.

How It Works

The service has an inventory of millions of clips. Each clip is assigned to a word. The clips are created from the places in the songs where that word was said by the artist. Therefore, when you have a sentence, it will be a compilation of many different songs where each artist says a different word in the tone of their voice.

Share With Friends and Family

It is way too much fun to mess around with this service, and I highly suggest that check you it out. It only takes minute and will add some fun to your life. This is something that you should definitely share with friends and family because you don’t have to sign up and you can get started right away.

Last.fm, an online music network owned by CBS, has launched a new on demand service that allows its users to listen to the tunes that they want, when the want. It is a music community, in the sense that it allows you to find people who have the same taste in music as yourself. The most interesting feature in the service, is that it learns what you like and not only suggest other artists, but creates charts along with a load of other personalized features.

The fastest way get started is to create a account, and then to download and install the plug-in for your proffered music player (if it is supported). The software currently works with the most popular OS’s; PC, Mac, and Linux.

Sadly this won’t replace your radio anytime soon, since an internet connection is required.

As I earlier stated, the software learns as you listen. Within a couple of days when you have listened to enough songs, the service will start putting other listeners into your neighborhood, who have smiler interests as you. In addition, you will be able to snoop around and see what your friends have been listening to.

My experience with this service thus far has been very good, I have found myself being opened up to a whole new world of music, and a whole new way of finding it. I would most definitely suggest checking it out, that is if you have the time.

Qtrax is a brand new service that is planning to revolutionize the music industry. It allows you to download the songs that you want for free, but it comes with a twist. All the songs have DRM (digital rights management) on them, and to make things even worse, you will only be able to play the music using the Qtrax software. Say goodbye the use of any portable media player, or separate music management programs.

They support themselves and the free use of the copyrighted songs by filling up their service with advertisements. This will in turn generate a whole lot of revenue (depending on the amount of users), allowing them to easily pay off the major studios.

Personally, I don’t find it that appealing due to the fact that I’m willing to pay 15 dollars a month for the use of an unlimited amount of songs. It’s even less appealing because my iPod is something that is very important to me, and something that I use often. What’s even more is the fact that you can already easily listen to songs online through YouTube and plenty other services. The only noticeable difference is the fact that you can make libraries of songs, but the advertisements don’t make it worth the hassle. This service definitely has a long way to go, but it’s a good start and something you should definitely keep your eye on.

This is a sponsored review, please keep that in note.

rssHugger is a one a of a kind site and I’m not just saying that because of its awesome name. This website strives to bring both bloggers and readers together. It allows bloggers to easily promote themselves by having rssHugger build them backlinks for search engine optimization, send them traffic, and also bring in new rss subscribers if the content is interesting to the readers. It is an interesting site, and one you should definitely think of checking out.

Woot is a site that I have been using for some time now. They have a new deal everyday and the items go fast! Woot sells products at incredibly low prices, sometimes the lowest around. They have one item per day, and their shipping is very generous; 1-3 items will only cost you five dollars in shipping (for the package, not for each one). They don’t allow you to buy more than that so don’t be expecting to buy the items in bulk to make a huge profit. That’s another thing, their prices are so good that sometimes they beat out eBay. Because of this, if you are unhappy with your product or want to make some quick cash (although the turnover rate probably isn’t that high), you can go sell them.

Woot-Off

If there are some orange flashing lights on the front page it means that you have stumbled upon a Woot-Off. Usually if an item sells out, another one isn’t available until the following day, however a Woot-Off changes all the rules. In this mode, a new product is instantly replaced after the previous one has sold out. If a product doesn’t sell out, the life of it is only 12 hours instead of 24. Woot likes to build suspense, so like with everything they do, you won’t know how much of that product is left. This is something that only happens every once or twice a month, so when it does happen, be sure to take a look.