URL:

http://www.netflix.com

What is Netflix?

Netflix is an online subscription service that will allow you rent hundreds of thousands of movies and stream thousands more to your PC.  When you rent a movie, it is shipped to you in the mail and you can return it at any time, no late fees.  Once you return the movie, the next movie in your queue is shipped to you.  Shipping both ways is free.  Newer to Netflix is the ability to stream thousands of movies directly through your browser, making it easy to watch movies instantly.

What you may not know about Netflix

Recently, more and more devices are enabled with the ability to stream Netflix movies directly to your TV.   Devices such as Playstation 3, Xbox, Nintento Wii, Roku, and more are enabled.

Watch this quick video and check it out for yourself:

http://www.fansnap.com

What is FanSnap?

FanSnap is a service to find event, concert, and sporting tickets.  FanSnap actually aggregates ticket data from across a network of ticket selling sites and makes the ticket purchase experience much better.  Using FanSnap you can easily select your event and it will show you the venue that is interactive.  From here you can actually zoom in and pan around the venue to see what tickets are still available.  Next you click on an available set of tickets, and make the purchase.  Now you’ll know exactly where you’re sitting when you get there!

What you may not know about FanSnap

FanSnap allows the users to upload photos taken at those different seats.  This will give you an actual view from those seats at that venue.  Can this get an easier?

Here’s a quick video on FanSnap for you:

lala.com

URL:

http://www.lala.com

What is Lala?

Lala.com is an online music store and compact disc trading website created by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Bill Nguyen. The service allows trade-enabled members to legally create online shareable “playlists” (formerly known as “radio stations”) of their own uploaded music which can play full length songs for other registered Lala members, purchase MP3s, stream music on a one-time basis or as inexpensively purchased “web songs.”  New members can upload their own music, create playlists, purchase MP3s and web songs, buy new CDs at the Lala store, leave blurbs, and can change their personal account settings to activate trading privileges and also be able to trade CDs and use the community forums. Apple, Inc. acquired Lala on December 4, 2009. (via Wikipedia)

What you may not know about Lala

Lala is great for listening to music from where ever you are, but did you know that you can have Lala create a playlist for you baed on your favorite artists?  Using their “Mix it up” feature you can easily search for an artist, then on the right click [Mix it up].  This will take your current artist and similar artists and create a playlist for you.  It can’t get much easier than that!

Watch the video for more details on Lala:

URL:

http://www.vevo.com

What is Vevo?

Vevo is an online music video website owned by Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, EMI and Abu Dhabi Music Company.  Basically its a website full of “official” high quality music videos.  All music videos are played on an oversized video screen in high, music video quality.  The site is powered by Youtube, yet is the first site to use Youtube technologies offsite.  Vevo has a large selection of music videos, playlists, channels and more, destined to be the most popular music video watching website on the internet.

What you may not know about Vevo

Vevo has many features, but a couple that really stick out is the ability to easily create playlists of music videos on the bottom panel.  Here you can add up to 75 music videos to a playlist and just let it play.  Second, with some videos, you can enable lyrics.  This means while the video plays, the lyrics will show in sync with the song. This is a unique, but great feature of Vevo.

Here’s a quick video on Vevo:

URL:

http://www.amiestreet.com

What is AmieStreet?

AmieStreet is a website to discover new music.  If you’re one for being ahead of the curve on discovering new music, you get rewarded.  For less popular songs, downloads are really cheap or even free!  So discover new music quickly and don’t pay for them to legitimately download the MP3’s.  As songs become more popular the price of the song goes up.  Regardless its very easy that you’ll be able to purchase songs less than those of iTunes.

What you may not know about AmieStreet

AmieStreet has a great recommendation engine.  Easily import your iTunes library, Pandora playlist or Last.FM account and quickly discover new music based off of the music you are already listening too. So here’s a jumpstart to finding new music and download cheap and free MP3’s.

Here’s a video of AmieStreet:

URL:

http://www.youtube.com

What is Youtube?

YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. Three former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005. In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for US$1.65 billion, and is now operated as a subsidiary of Google. The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos. Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media corporations including CBS and the BBC and other organizations offer some of their material via the site. (read more at Wikipedia)

What you may not know you can do with Youtube

If you may not know already, Youtube users are currently limited to 10 minute video uploads, but using a few Youtube techniques you can add videos longer than 10 minutes.  In short, crop you video into 10 minute segments, upload them, create a Youtube playlist of your videos, then create a custom video player which plays your playlist, embed the video to your website or blog, voila, you have a Youtube video player that plays a video larger than 10 minutes.

Here’s a video on how to do this :

URL:

http://www.befunky.com

What is BeFunky?

BeFunky is an image editing tool that has a variety of professional filters and effects that you can apply to your photos in minutes.  Simply upload a folder, select an effect, tweak it, and download the newly modified image.  This is a great tool for quick edits on the fly with no additional software to install to your computer, oh and it’s free.

What you may not know about BeFunky

BeFunky has a collection of additional tools, objects, and effects that can be applied to your photos.  Add objects such as footballs, balloons, or text bubbles to your images; create a border for your image and much more.  Watch the video below for more on how you can do some really cool things with your photos.

URL:

http://www.phonezoo.com

What is PhoneZoo?

PhoneZoo is a community of free ringtones and pictures for your cell phone.  Search thousands of users ringtones and pictures to send to your cell phone, all for free.

What you may not know about PhoneZoo

PhoneZoo has a ringtone editor that allows you to upload your own sounds and edit them as ringtones and send them to your phone.  So if you’re looking for a way to create your own custom ringtones, you can do just that for free with PhoneZoo.com

Here’s a quick video on PhoneZoo:

URL:

http://www.pandora.com

What is Pandora?

Pandora is a free service that allows you to listen to music the way you want.   Start by typing an artist or favorite song.  Pandora will start playing that song.  If you like the song, give it a ‘thumbs up’, if you dislike it, give it a ‘thumbs down’.  Over time it will build a radio station of music that you like, playing just what you want to hear.  Imagine listening to a radio station of your favorite songs and new songs that you all like?!  Pandora solves this for you.

What you may not know about Pandora

Registering an account with Pandora allows you to save your radio stations and you can then access them from anywhere on the internet.  The more you listen to your radio stations, the more custom they become to your musical tastes.  Furthermore, if you’re into different genre’s of music, create different stations for each of your genre.  As a user of Pandora, you’re musical likes and dislikes contribute to the Music Genome Project, which is a continuing evolving music recommendation system that relates songs and artists to each other, based on what the users listen too.

Here’s a quick video on Pandora:

URL:

http://www.thesixtyone.com

What is TheSixtyOne?

TheSixtyOne is a site to discover new music and share with others music you’ve discovered.  Gain scene credit points for the amount of music you listen to, recommend, and favorite.  If you think you know what the next best thing is in music, then show how well you really do know new music with TheSixtyOne.

What you may not know about TheSixtyOne

You can ‘bump’ or vote up a song to show that you really like the song, but your bumps are going to cost you, your scene points that is.  Less popular songs cost more to bump, but in return can increse your rewards if the song becomes more popular.  The idea is to make better decisions on what songs you vote on, by making you have to accumulate points to spend on things such as ‘bumping’ songs.

Here’s a quick video on TheSixtyOne: