CLIQ is a social network site for bloggers. A blogger can join ONE group to be apart of. The groups might have a common theme, like bloggers from Portland, or bloggers who talk about cooking. Once you join the group, all your blog posts will be automatically joined with your peers and together they will combine to form a super blog! Well not exactly a super blog but you’ll just see different entries from different people within your group. So if your visitors wanted to look at other blogs that for example, talk about cooking, they can then click on an entry and visit that page.

CLIQ doesn’t have much users yet, so there isn’t much use for it right now if your starting your own group. Finding other groups within your interest might be a little difficult since most of them are private. Other times the blogs you find might not really interest you but you can join the group anyway and hope that others will join eventually.

Hopefully CLIQ might work for you in attracting visitors to your site, as Mybloglog and BlogCatalog only links people to your profile.

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We’ve seen many different online music stores, but it appears one site has finally figured out how to remove all the annoying aspects and integrate every feature and function into one page. Clickgroove has begun the web 2.0 interface of music shopping.

The left side bar features selections for new music, charts, labels, and genres. You can click on each one of them to sort the music listings. The magic begines once you click on an artist. With some really crafty ajax scripts, the page on the right loads by itself without any apparent loading of the whole entire page. At the top features your playlist which you can select and play any preview of a song. The music continues playing even if you backspace and visit a previous page from before. This would be such a welcome addition for the music store, the fact that we can browse other music listings while continuously listening to music makes it much more pleasant and much more useful. Need I remind you that there are NO POPUPS to listen to the music! 

The only suggestion for Clickgroove woule be to add a social element to the site. Similar to the review system emusic has on all of its albums. Plus we should be able to add all tracks within an album to the playlist. But for now, everything is alright.

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Puricute is the new site on the block offering cute picture frames for all to see. The site is very well designed and neat. It should be able capture the young female, or more specifically, capture the asian audiences very quickly. 

Puricute provides users with a very simple interface to create their picture frame. First you upload your photo and choose the various stamps and frames to add. You can insert animals and cute cakes into your picture, then send them out to friends or blog. The site also hosts a gallery where you can view other puricute photos created by others.

How cute is too cute?

Puricute unfortunately doesn’t stand itself apart from other glitter sites. There isn’t any robust features that can make it compete with blingee. You can only undo stamps in the order that you add them. We would like to see it where you can delete a stamp by clicking on it. Also you can’t insert your own user created stamps. This seriosuly puts it behind other glitter apps.

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