Found Around: Bln.kr: An Innovative Way to Share Music
Written by Lynsey Grey Posted in: Found Around on March 01, 2011
It seems like new apps pop up each day that make posting and sharing your music online much easier. While it's nice that you can upload your art to the most popular social sites in little to no time, what good does it do you if you can't get real time feedback? Sites like SoundCloud and Grooveshark give you a good idea of who's listening, but they don't promote direct interaction with your listeners .
Enter Bln.kr, a new service that allows one-click sharing across the most widely used social sites and utilizes dynamic prompts to spark interesting, useful feedback. Your listeners will be asked questions that ignite legitimate conversation, such as how the lyrics make them feel or what single thing they'd change about the track. That important feedback is then aggregated back to Bln.kr along with information about downloads and plays for each track you post through the service. While it's hard to say whether musicians will welcome the feedback with open arms, it could be a fairly useful tool throughout the writing process.
Here's a quick intro from the Bln.kr team.
So, what do you think? Are people more likely to take the time to comment when asked direct questions? Is Bln.kr something that sounds like it could take off and be a useful tool for musicians? Let us know in the comments below!
-Lynsey
