“Basic” is a compliment to Muxtape
Muxtape is a new website that makes sharing a mixtape very easy. I’m not sure you could trim features from it without taking away basic functionality. In that sense, it’s “basic.” But I mean it as a compliment.
I love what Brian has to say about it:
“Muxtape is fun. Don’t pester me with business model questions or remind me that they have some fine print issues to clarify. If you can’t learn from Muxtape or Line Rider (start with a simple idea that appeals to *emotions*; make it easy to get to the fun; make it simple to share) you should go sell insurance.”
[…] Posted by Nav on March 26, 2008 Yesterday, new mixtape app “Muxtape” spread through the tech set like wildfire. The site is brilliant in its simplicity and, like Dropbox and Instapaper before it, Muxtape works because it does one thing in an uncluttered, intuitive fashion. To my mind, this is how web applications should work: take a cultural form like the mixtape, with all its (flirtatious?) connotations, and translate it to the web in a way that just ‘makes sense’. The mixtape especially seems to work well because of its twofold nature: on the one hand, it is a sort of gift that you give to someone you like; and on the other, it is a creative thing says something about its maker. And aren’t creating and sharing what this whole Web 2.0 schtick is supposed to be about? This, I imagine, was the reason Muxtape exploded the way it did. […]
This is really slick. I uploaded a couple of songs, but unfortunately it doesn’t accept my mp4 from friendly itunes. I had to search around to find a couple of songs that were mp3’s. I’m excited for this service to get more popular and allow more file formats. It’s great to go through people’s “mixed tapes”
Dude make one and post it. Here’s mine http://chriskalani.muxtape.com
The simplicity is good, but it makes it hard to find somewhere to start, but you can always use www.muxtapestumbler.com to get around this problem