Musical social networking

I recently got an account over at SoundCloud, and I think it's absolutely brilliant. 

Essentially, the website is a social network for musicians, DJs, producers, and the like, that encourages sharing of music. But it doesn't look like Facebook: instead of profile pages containing  images and wall posts, profile pages instead contain streaming audio and diagrams of waveforms. SoundCloud lets all users upload, for free, their music. It has a commenting and rating system, similar to many other social networks, except that comments are attached to specific points in an audio clip. SoundCloud, in other words, revolves around the music (and is much more like Flickr or Vimeo than Facebook).


Right now, it's primarily used for electronic music. The company is from Berlin, and it is quite popular in Europe; a majority of the users are European. 


What a great idea. This website is a hundred times more productive than Facebook--that is to say, because of its existence, art is created and shared, people are enlightened to new music and therefore grow musically. The internet is finally, after a good 10 years or so of stumbling through (various degrees of) useless novelty, is beginning to actually bring people together in positive ways. 


And it's great for self promotion, too. You should probably check out mine.