Here's an interesting web app — Blip.fm is like a musical Twitter. Whereas sometimes I struggle to see the point of Twitter, Blip.fm demonstrated it’s genius within about 10 mins of use.

After signing up, you add DJ’s into a favorites list. These DJ’s are people who are into similar music you are into, they can be friends or strangers. Each Blip user when they particularly dig a tune ‘blips’ it. This tune then appears on the playlists of your followers. Likewise if a DJ you are following is vibing on a tune, then you too will get their recommendation. Your homepage acts as a giant playlist of musical blips and it’ll sequentially play through each track one by one.

Personally, I think works a lot better than the auto-selected Last.fm model which is based on listening habits. The Blip model is hand picked. Music should be hand picked.

Excellent!

Edit: I forgot to add - the service seems to have every tune under sun - not sure how... but I suppose that is the deciding factor - without music the service fails.

Thanks to Iain for the tip off…