12 of the top music social networks
by Josh Kimball
According to Mashable: MOG, iJigg, Last.fm, iLike, etc. As is usual, worth a read (mashable’s been clowning TechCrunch for months — if one is still allowed to use clown as a verb).
Only complaint is that the assessments focus so much on the soc nets’ weird-ass features (super collabo powers for indie bands who’ve committed to putting out ad-supported DRM-free Jungle tracks), there’s very little indication of how the user experience is. And in the case of most of the networks they talk about, the experience is pretty mediocre.
Ijigg.com is amazing. The music sharing site couldn’t be easier to use!!!
You have nailed my ace complaint about the many websites covering Web 2.0 in general and Music 2.0 in particular. It’s all about the business and the features and nothing nothing nothing about the users or what they think. Long rant withheld, but suffice to say how much better so many of these sites could be if there efforts were spent focusing on users as much as how-can-we-create-new-features regardless of what they do (or don’t do) for the users.
Hey Ron–I actually agree with you about iJigg’s ease of use–sort of. I tried it for a while right after TechCrunch covered it. For whatever reason, it didn’t stick. I think I felt like I had to be too much of a music discovery hunter, when so many discovery paradigms are sort of tricking me into thinking I can be a discovery farmer. I’ll go back and fiddle with it some more.
Actually, maybe the onus is on me to think about the service more in terms of music sharing than in terms of strict discovery. But putting the onus on me–that gets dangerously close to the lack of user-centricity Nancy notes above.