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 Post subject: Flavors me (personal website to aggregate your social media)
PostPosted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 3:32 pm 
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Recently I've discovered this simple website service www.flavors.me that lets you combine your twitter, facebook, flickr, vimeo, youtube, blog, wordpress, you name it....
And now they have added soundcloud. So it was time to sign up.

SoundCloud noticed and took my site as an example in their blog.
Read about how it works here: SoundCloud blog: Need A Light-Weight Artist Or Band Website? Look No Further!


This is what mine looks like, if you find it handy, make one, and post your link in this thread.
http://flavors.me/inofaith
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 4:31 pm 
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Interesting.

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 5:33 pm 
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I've been waiting to do more research into social media aggregators. This looks like it's worth checking out, but I think I'd be more interested in something that goes the other way, i.e. a service that allows me to upload a song along with a description to Soundcloud, and then have that mirrored accordingly to my Facebook, Twitter, and Wordpress site. I mean that's kind of possible now with the connection APIs between all those sites, but it's rather sterile.

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 10:58 pm 
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flavors rules. generally speaking, web publishing apps have finally evolved to the point where you don't have to code your own website anymore if you want something decent.

adding soundcloud to their services was a necessity, but if they add bandcamp and discogs.com integration it'll probably be the best resource on the web for producer/musician types (or anyone wanting to promote their work).

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 2:11 am 
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That looks awsome Inofaith

also agreed, flavors.me is awsome, I set one up the other day too

http://www.inaudible.org.uk although its just a forward to http://flavors.me/inaudible

(i know it looks dodgy on some computers at the moment, need to have a little fiddle with it some more).

My main issue im having is that if i change the DNS forwarding / 'A record' of my website the wordpress will die (someone please correct me if im wrong, id love to be wrong) and i need that wordpress for the flavors.me site to aggregate from. Was really hoping that I could set it up without a forward.

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 6:13 am 
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citrus wrote:
I've been waiting to do more research into social media aggregators. This looks like it's worth checking out, but I think I'd be more interested in something that goes the other way, i.e. a service that allows me to upload a song along with a description to Soundcloud, and then have that mirrored accordingly to my Facebook, Twitter, and Wordpress site. I mean that's kind of possible now with the connection APIs between all those sites, but it's rather sterile.


Check out http://www.posterous.com for that

thanks for the flavors tip, I was just saying how I would like something like that...

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 10:11 am 
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inaudible wrote:
My main issue im having is that if i change the DNS forwarding / 'A record' of my website the wordpress will die (someone please correct me if im wrong, id love to be wrong) and i need that wordpress for the flavors.me site to aggregate from. Was really hoping that I could set it up without a forward.


just pull in your wordpress as a RSS feed.

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 6:43 am 
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Hmm, I'm noticing some major flaws in the flavors.me concept (for us musicians anyway)

1.] It's not interactive: meaning, if people want to comment on a track, video, tweet, fb post... they have to leave the site, and follow you on twitter, like you on facebook, sign up to vimeo, sign up to youtube, follow you on soundcloud.

So that kindo misses the point of getting your fans to a central hub were they can experience everything and interact with it. It's kindo' a monologue presentation form now.

2.] They let you integrate your personal facebook, but not your facebook (fan)page.

As I see it now flavors.me is more aimed at the kind of people who have a nice blog and a digital lifestyle, were you can read their thoughts and look at some of their pics... and if they happen to be so creative they make music too, it shows up there.

3.] The essential parts of soundcloud are missing, the WAVEFORM DISPLAY + TIMED COMMENTS.. are so so so very important.
That, + the "Download" and "Buy" buttons.


flavors.me is nice but I'm not advertising it as my main website just yet. Hope they will expand.

If I had the resources I'd love to have a neatly designed inofaith dot com with the nice soundcloud players or artwork players. Also an easy to use webstore (connected to bandcamp?)
My videos, my photography, twitter and facebook integration.. and general message board. Downloads section and all that good shit.
And also a customised look for the links to friends section... were snippeds of their websites show etc.

I still like Amon Tobin's site. It's just were you go if you wanna know anything new about his work and check if there are some neat free downloads or wallpapers etc.

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 Post subject: Re: Flavors me (personal website to aggregate your social media)
PostPosted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 9:59 pm 
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this is what tobin uses...

http://www.topspinmedia.com/for-artists/

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 7:46 am 
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Ah I see.

But I think none of us are meeting that critical-mass point of topspin...

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 9:59 pm 
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agreed, topspin is for artists that are steady clocking income that can actually afford the "premium overhead". also just noticed that's what the glitch mob are using as well.

circling back to flavors.me, they are currently in beta with their companion commerce site goodsie.com, and at an initial glance seems to be pretty spot on. same simplistic design/entry interface and on the cheap at $20/month. handles cc gateway transactions, complete with digital download sales. haven't fully checked into it beyond a surface test dive, so if anyone notices anything bunk about it i'd love to know...

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 10:51 am 
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we should all build a new social networking site. ( i mean, besides this lovely site ) a new soundcloud/facebook/myspace that integrates the best of all worlds, maybe it could have a search capability so you could easily find multiple tracks from your favorite artists all at once, and automatically alerts you to new ones and they all pop up on a list. ive wanted to make a social networking site, but the software i found doesnt do enough, and sadly, im not really a coder... (unless you count BASIC and HTML...) yea, that's right, BASIC.

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 1:08 am 
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Hmm, all this stuff is still not very fulfilling.
I guess all the free social-network services still don't beat having a good designed website of your own.

flavors.me tries to pull all the positive features of those services together... but fails to channel them in every direction and instead just creates a combined "feed" of all the stuff. And no interaction.


And the thing I want to do is connect to fans/listeners/fellow musicians.

- For instance on my youtube channel, people leave comments there sometimes, but when I reply there for everybody to see (answering a question), the person doesn't get notified bout that. and thus the conversation dies.
- Facebook doesn't give notifications when somebody somments on something you posted on your fan page (unless you "like" everything you post, but that looks odd to people).
- And nobody ever uses the "discussion" tabs on both Facebook pages and Soundcloud groups.


... so what is left?

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 1:19 pm 
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Not sure, but Ive been keeping my eyes to the web to be an early adopter...

Myspace has a new CEO and has been making major changes that seem promising, but we'll see how that goes, heard it before tbh...

Soundcloud X Myspace X Youtube X Twitter would be perfect. One new service that has all the best features of those and the ability to pull from / push to all of those sites would be killer. Posterous and Tumblr are close, but not quite...

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 1:27 pm 
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Posterous doesn't import... it exports to all those services... it's a handy tool to multi-post. But it often goes wrong. Or looks unpersonal.

Myspace's name is doomed anyhow.. even a re-start won't get people to trust the site ever.
Move forward plz.

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