Hey!

 

As many of you may already know, we just launched a new Flickr group called Caught 8handed.

 

The group is a showcase of our favorite streams, as well as a place for us to discover new people. We're always on the lookout for talent to feature in Caught 8handed, so check out our group and post your best pics to the pool.

 

Who knows, we may just feature you next!

We'll start off with a confession: all of us at the 8hands mega-team are obsessed with music. Actually, we have two obsessions – music & social networks. It's understandable because music is one of the reasons that social networks are so exciting – From the greatness of the imeem player to the brilliant last.fm radio. Hell, MySpace alone holds about 3 million unsigned artists, so you can browse around for days looking for the "next big band" (and when they go commercial you'll be able to say that you loved them from the get-go, but now they suck).

 

We were always looking for a way to combine 8hands with our love of music. Guess what? We found one! We are starting this new music blog to tell you all about the great artists that we've found around the social networks sphere (mostly in MySpace, Last.fm, imeem & Bebo) and we'll use 8hands to spread the word & share favorite music videos with all of the 8hands users.

 

Almost on a daily basis, we'll post a recommendation about a not-too-big artist or band that is either unsigned or signed to a small indie label. We'll write about music creators that we believe use social networks as a huge promotion tool, and we will use 8hands promotion values to help our favorite artists of the bunch.

 

We'll recommend artists, post interviews, videos & songs and explore the mutual relationship between the indie culture to the networks. Every week or so we will choose our favorite artist of the moment and upload a music video by him to our YouTube profile.

 

As you probably know (and if you don't – go download 8hands right now you lazy un-adventurers people!) the 8hands YouTube videos come built-in in 8hands, so, unless you've deleted that location you'll get every video right into your 8hands!

 

That's great for the artists, because their videos will be exposed to many people, and it's amazing to the 8hands users, because, if they appreciate our taste in music (which we believe is superb) they will be able to discover new artists & share them with their friends by a simple drag & drop.

 

So… add the music blog's rss to your 8hands, and if there are any artists that fit the description above and you would like us to recommend them here, we would love it if you'll comment or write us to info (at) 8hands (dot) com.