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I have a new social site addiction – Blip.fm. The site is prettymuch Twitter for music enthusiasts, and the best thing for me is that it interfaces with my other favorite social music site Last.fm . :)

Once you register, you build your profile like any other social site… but when it comes to adding your content, you search for your desired track by name, or artist name. You can then preview the track to make sure it’s the right one. When you’ve selected your track, you can then enter a 150 character message to go with it a-la Twitter.

I have set up the site to post directly to Twitter, and scrobble to Last.fm too… and using this, I’ve also enabled Twitter to update my Facebook status. However I don’t want to spam Twitter or Facebook too much, so thankfully there’s a method of selectively not sending an update to Twitter: All you do is add an exclamation mark followed by a space at the beginning of your post. So for example, my post could be “! This track really rocks”.

There’s a nice community feel to the site as well, with each blip having a vote up button where you can “give props” to the DJ for posting it, as well as adding the song to your own playlist, or reblip aka reposting that blip yourself. You can even send a DJ a message/reply using the Twitter-esque @username method.

Anyway check it out, and add me if you’re into similar music – hope you enjoy! I think I got Smoo addicted to it as well. ;)

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