Came across a Twitter meme under the hashtag #inatweet, which was suggested by a librarian (instead of the usual #FollowFriday) to "learn abt & share techs w/ our colleagues". The idea is to tweet (w/a short link if possible) some site you really like, especially one which may not be so well known. I looked at two that were new to me:
1) Playlist.com - a free site on which you search for songs and compose your own playlist. The beauty of this is that you can log-in on any computer and have a playlist of your personal favorites (unlike iTunes, which lives on your home computer or iPod). I couldn't find everything I wanted (no James Taylor or Beatles, e.g.), but I came up with 100 or so songs I like... not bad! You can share your playlist, which I did on my Facebook page. It is also here: http://www.playlist.com/playlist/20270129163 .
2) Compfight - http://www.compfight.com/, which a photo sharing search engine. It is not affiliated w/ Flickr, but it makes good use of it. What I really liked is that right up at the top near the Search box, there is a little drop-down menu for Creative Commons. If you set it to "only", then you won't get any "commercial" results for your keywords. This is so much easier than doing a similar search in Flickr itself, in my opinion. You still have to attribute, of course, but you're not searching all over the Flickr page to see if it is free or not.
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In Flickr's "Advanced Search" you can limit the results to "Only search within Creative Commons-licensed content." This is what Suzanne & I do to find photos to illustrate our blog posts.
ReplyDeletePlaylist.com looks great--I'm going to create a list! I wonder if eventually this sort of site will make our streaming music databases obsolete?