Surfarama

This post serves as a landing page for folks redirected from freetunes.co.nz, which I have decided to close down now that I’ve downsized to a very modest VPS and need to conserve my bandwidth.

Freetunes was a bit of an experiment I had been running in a very adhoc way for a while now…basically it mashed up the Google search API and some social features to make it easy to find and share stashes of MP3s on the web.

Y’all know about the advanced search queries you can use to find media files on Google directly. Freetunes just added a layer for users to give a thumbs up or down to results they viewed so that popular results always showed up first. Searching using the advanced parameters is always a bit hit and miss so Freetunes let everyone take advantage of the work done by others to hunt out the best results.

It mostly worked pretty well but I’m trying to simplify so there’s no room for it anymore.