Two quick apps I’m trying to write about, but I keep getting pulled away:
Crucial Tracks: You saw me testing here on the blog. Found out about this thanks to Lou Plummer. It’s a slow-paced social network/microblogging network where you can write about your favorite songs.
The service offers a quick prompt for the day (“what song makes you think of your best friend?” or “a song you used to listen to growing up?” etc.) combined with a quick search that finds the song with the artwork of the album. This is federated and free, which means it plays nice with the IndieWeb (that’s us, if you read this on your RSS feed) and offers a bunch of other options for embedding and playing directly from streaming services.
I already have it integrated with Micro.blog using Micropub, which they also support now.
Moments: Think of Glass, but a free and less “meant for serious photographers” kind of platform. Not that you can’t be a serious photographer on it, but it just welcomes everyone. The idea is to blog through your photos and tell a story.
I mentioned it briefly, and sadly didn’t get the chance to get around to it (photos require more editing and playing around with than a quick post about a song), but it looks polished, and the guy behind it, Peter, reaches out to new folks to help them out at these early stages. Didn’t reach out to Peter yet to ask about IndieWeb support, but I will try to.