Muxtape, an online mix tape/playlist application that lets you share a mixtape with the internet, just launched. (Here’s mine.) Design as simple and effective as this continue to define the gold standard for next-generation web applications because they focus less on “what everyone else is doing” and more on giving the user the tools to “do what he/she wants.”
In terms of:
- Finding a problem,
- Providing the tools to solve that singular problem, and
- Making it really fun in the process,
Muxtape hits it out of the park.
Others have speculated that the site will encounter copyright difficulties and be forced to shut down, but here’s hoping that won’t happen.

March 25th, 2008 - 6:09 pm
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