Let’s say you go to friend’s house for the company and free beer. The music is cool enough, and you can even change the selection if the rest of your friends don’t complain too much. Usually the alcohol makes people less particular, and sometimes you can achieve musical autonomy by being the designated DJ. That’s sort of what Blip.fm is like.

Blip.fm is a free Internet personal DJ forum created - apparently - to interface seamlessly with Twitter. Just go to Blip.fm to create a UserName and you’re in business. Search for songs and artists and add them to your profile. We’ve done just that and used their “Embed” function to place our playlist right before your eyes and ears. Just click “Next” to hear the next song on our playlist…

If you go to our Blip.fm playlist at http://blip.fm/SnarlyBoodle and hit the “Play” button on the bottom of the screen, the songs will play in sequence without the need to hit the “Next” button. Still, you have the option to play any song you want at any time. This is better than radio.

By the way, a “Blip” is a combination of a song and the short message you attach to it. You Blip any song by hitting the blue “Blip” button, filling in your message, and sending it off to your accounts at Twitter, Facebook, your blog site, and anywhere else you embed the Blip.fm plug-in. There’s even a send-by-email feature.

You can go to Blip.fm’s Public page and just listen to the unfiltered stream of newly-selected music selected by other users. Or you can find an individual user and play their playlist. You can also search their massive music database by title and artist. At any time you can add any song to your own playlist by clicking the little yellow “add the blip to your playlist” star.

Independent artists may add their own songs to their playlist by manually entering the URL to the MP3 format of their song. Blip.fm will even host your MP3 files if you ask them nicely via their “music manager request form.”

Save your Favorite DJs for later listening. Send “Props” - kudos - to favorite Favorite DJs. Invite friends and build a following. It’s all free and devoid of advertisements - for now. They’ve already monetized the service in a very discreet way; you can click a “Buy MP3″ link on any song - and “Get Ringtone” on many - through which Blip.fm makes some affiliate cash. Of course they’ll splash ads everywhere and may even charge a user fee once they have enough people hooked.

And then Google will buy it.

Six-Eye Jackson

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