Valleywag
It's starting to feel like 1988 around here, and not just because Rick Astley is back in the news. No, it's because old analog-like tech is making a virtual comeback online. Muxtape, the latest project from Vimeo's Justin Ouellette, allows aging alt-rockers and hip-hoppers to create mix tapes for their crushes like we used to with cassettes. And that's just one example.
Swaggle is a group SMS doohickey from Hive Mind's Jordan Schwartz that makes Dodgeball and Twitter look overly complicated and self-involved. It's kinda like the phone tree your elementary school or little league team used to maintain, without all the fuss of having to maintain a public identity.
And leave it to a subversive sticker tycoon to come up with Metanotes. Srini Kumar's new venture gives you a big, flat space to pin web ephemera, to-do lists and other stuff to share with friends (or strangers). Like a corkboard at the supermarket or the flier kiosk at the student union.
Simple, free, and easy to use — these kids just might be on to something. If only Facebook app developers were so clever. (Photo by AP/Mel Evans)
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Did this ever get anyone laid then, let alone now?
I didn't think so.
i refuse to believe that jakob lodwick is not somehow involved in this.
Maybe it's because I'm so young, but I never really got the "mix tape" thing. It's like saying "I like you enough that I think of you, but not enough to make something original for you."
@Ted Dziuba: I thought the same thing when I saw this on the Muxtape Blog:
[jakob.muxtape.com]
this is just a ruse to confuse the riaa.
Look out! Jason Calcanis is standing outside, in your lawn, with a boombox playing a Peter Gabriel tape right now!
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