Guitar.com Goes Web 2.0, Public Beta Now Open
May 7th, 2007
Guitar.com has been under construction for a few months now. I first noticed that it was down for redesign January 25th, 2007 and reported it here. A month or so later I signed up for the private beta and was never contacted. Now I just got an email today saying it has moved into the public beta stage.
From what I can see Guitar.com has produced a last.fm style site geared directly towards guitar players. I’m still waiting for my confirmation email before I can log in, but here is what Guitar.com has to say about the new site:
Join. Create your profile. List the music and gear you love for others to discover and if they buy based on your recommendation, you get a commission. Write your blog, use it for education or amusement and earn advertising revenue from the traffic you generate on it.
Customize your home page, add the content you love via rss, move it around where you want and store and share your favorite Youtube or Google vids.
Communicate with others on the forums and groups and raise your webCred to make your recommendations show in more places and have more value in the community. List stuff for sale or swap in the classifieds section. Guitar.com is for you, a place to call home. A place for you to make money doing what you love and a place to discover music and gear you might have never known about.
Also still in development is the standalone application Rype. Rype looks to be a GarageBand type of application that doubles as a front end for the Guitar.com website as well as a marketing tool for selling your songs on iTunes. Again, there are not a lot of details, but it does say Rype will be in beta “soon”.
I’ll check back in as soon as I get the confirmation email.
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May 8th, 2007 17:22
I signed up today, I like some of the concepts, we’ll see how it shakes out. I don’t like that you can’t use any html in the forums though.