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This blog is run and written by Lewis Smile. You can hire him at BuildMyLens.com and YourNicheBlog.com. He does some mighty fine things on these internets ;)

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Lens Building with FoxyTunes (a cool free little tool)

You know when you build a lens and you scoot around the web finding links, flickr pictures, youtube videos, amazon products, etc etc etc….?FoxyTunes Lens Building

Well I found a site recently called FoxyTunes.com.  It’s basically a search engine all about music. So you’re at FoxyTunes, you type in a band name or a song or album or whatever, and it creates a page for you pulling in the song videos from youtube, pictures of the band from flickr, lyrics of the songs from yahoo, their official site and myspace page, an intro from Wikipedia, and the band’s albums from Amazon. And some other useful stuff too.

It’s really pretty cool.

Here is an example:  http://www.foxytunes.com/artist/paris_hilton

You could easily create a lens about your favourite bands or artists, and use this FoxyTunes tool to fill in the rest of the modules. Because you’re able to see everything at a glance. Your lens will be mostly useless though unless you write some of your own thoughts on it too. What YOU think of the band, and why you like their music.

Havesome fun and

Lewis :)

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  1. Pretty exciting for all the music fans! Thanks for sharing :)

  2. This is a great tool. Thanks for the info!

  3. Lewis — FoxyTunes.com is pretty cool how it builds a page with modular-type information. Are those pages ‘already’ built or are they done ‘on-the-fly’ ?

  4. @Sandy – it should be a lot easier and FASTER to make music lenses, now!

    @Pat – That’s ok :)

    @Julie – They are created ‘on the fly’. So you type something in, it then goes and gets all the info from around the web. Which may well be why I’ve nevr ever ever found a foxytunes page in a search result. Squidoo can fix this for us :)

  5. Hello Lewis,

    Came across your blog in Google. As a new user of Squidoo , the resource is appreciated. I found the info about Foxytunes interesting. Thanks.

  6. [...] most of the work was done. I do want to credit MrLewisSmile for turning me on to FoxyTunes with his Lens Building with FoxyTunes (a cool free little tool) post at SquidooCool.com. I was able to use it to finish up this Lens, and I can already see how [...]

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