DemoGirl

Spock is a people search engine with a ton of cool features. The search results are more like mini profiles of people who match your search term. Each person has tags associated with them which are used to make finding them easier. The tags have a drop down menu where you can vote on whether or not you believe the tag to be an accurate match. You can view who else voted and so on.

If you happen to stumble upon your profile, you can easily claim it and add your web pages, photos, tags, location, anything you feel is important to share with the world. They claim to have over 100 million people already indexed and millions more being added every day. Spock is a lot cooler to see then to read about so I was happy when they gave us an invite to give Spock a whirl. Here’s my screencast tour of Spock:

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Pandora is a really great internet radio and music discovery site. Users can create multiple radio stations for different types of music, browse through other users shared stations to find new music, and even buy the new music they discovered on Pandora. Yes, that’s right, I said you can pay for this music that Pandora helped you find. If you click on the album cover there are links to iTunes and Amazon. The reason I’m mentioning this is because Pandora, and other internet radio stations, are most likely going to go under because the Copyright Royalty Board has severely increased internet radios royalty responsibility.  Isn’t any credit given for the royalties gained each time a user purchases an album while using Pandora, or any other internet radio site?

I made this screencast to show you all of Pandora’s great features and to show you why Pandora can lead to the purchase of music which may otherwise have gone unnoticed. If you choose to support internet radio, you can read more about the issues here and sign a petition here. Here’s my screencast tour of Pandora:

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