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Send audio postcards to your friends

  • Buzzfeed A simple, elegant way to send somebody a song. This would have made freshman year so much easier for me, in terms of talking to girls.
  • Wired It’s simple but powerful, offering a way to whip up enjoyable little audio-visual combinations for even our most tech-phobic kith and kin.
  • Josh Spear Pick a photo, a song and then email away. Just that easy.
  • Lifehacker You can spend a good chunk of time searching the web for an ecard that isn’t annoying, cheesy, ad-ridden, or some combination of all three. Or you can grab a picture, choose a song, and send a super-clean, customized ecard through Postcard.fm
  • Photojojo All you have to do is choose your greatest photo, upload a song that captures the moment, and send it off with a message to your favorite person.
  • Notcot Postcard.fm - Send an audio postcard to a friend and make their day. Uber-simple UI and a nice gesture...what more do you want?
  • Kansas City Star A simple message, simply expressed, is easier in theory than in implementation. However, Postcard.fm (http://postcard.fm/) — a Web service that helps users create and distribute audio postcards — achieves this lofty goal. It does what it claims to do in an easy, straightforward manner.
  • Thrillist A picture might be worth a thousand words, but it's nonetheless very difficult to dance to. Send an e-card with a groovy bass-line, via Postcard.fm
  • Huffington Post There are a few really nice ecard sites that allow you to customize your greetings for free. Check out www.postcard.fm in which you can upload a photo of choice and select a song to go with it.
  • CNN Postcard.fm makes it an easy three-step process to create an email-able postcard combining pictures and songs from your computer.
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Create your own record label

  • New York Times For the ailing music industry, every new idea is a potential life-saver. Four classmates at Northwestern University knew this when they developed a Web site called The Next Big Sound.
  • Mashable Simple…ingenious…and very addictive.
  • Guardian.co.uk If you'd rather discover some brand new music, then another streaming site is offering a particularly fun way to do so. Sign up to thenextbigsound.com and you become a record company "mogul", with 10 slots to fill on your virtual label. You can then listen to scores of real-life unsigned bands who've uploaded their demos.
  • Thrillist Few things make you cooler than finding a great band before they get big, but few things make you look like a grasping liar more than talking about how you liked a band before they got big. For tasteful hard proof you know your stuff, join The Next Big Sound.
  • Chicago Social The Result, The Next Big Sound, is beautiful in its simplicity and breathtaking in its potential. Unsigned bands post up to four songs to a sleek online jukebox.
  • Daily Candy Sign indie bands to your own online record label and watch your status rise and fall with the number of people who sign the group after you.
  • Decision Factory The next big sound pushes the music discovery envelope. The service does a great job at crowd-sourcing and uncovering new musical talents, using the music label paradigm.
  • North By Northwestern It’s like playing the stock market, but with musicians instead of businesses (which is probably a safer bet these days, anyhow).
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