Social Music Search Engine?

Looking for MP3's? Look no further than Project Playlist, (http://www.playlist.com/).

The site, which bills itself as a "social music experiment" and music search engine, is all that and more.

Using the social media / social networking model, the site allows you to build a playlist of tracks from it's vast collection of audio links and assembles them into a freindly, easy to use flash based media player.

You can log in to PlayList.com and add new tracks, re-arrange what you've already got, send email invites to friends, and share your playlist with others.

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Adding Flash video to a website can be confusing to say the least. Many people do not understand the difference between embedding a link to a flash video into page and actually serving the video content themselves.

YouTube and other video sharing / video hosting services make it relatively simply to display flash video, but the content, in-effect, belongs to that hosting service in the eyes of Google and other search engines, and worse, the video become somewhat public domain as anyone else can simply place the same embed code into their webpage and now your unique content is as much theirs as it is yours.

To non-technical types, the answer may be "So what?", but in the competition for traffic, your unique content, (text, images, video, audio or applications), are what makes your website different from everyone else's -- and is a key factor in how much traffic your site gets.

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Common Name: Hyves

Niche: Holland's #1 Social Networkng Website

Slogan: Always in touch with your friends.

What they say about themselves: "Holland's most popular website, with over 7 million members and over 2 billion pageviews per month."

What I say about Hyves.net: Well, I'm not from Holland, but the members look like they are having fun. Active user pages with lots of "friending". Videos are their own, (not YouTube). Site has a multi-lingual interface, (mostly european laguages). Main features are personal pages, videos, photos and connections to schools / classmates. The namesake "Hyves" are topical interest groups, for example their World Soccer Hyve with over 350,000 members!

www.hyves.net