Today I wanted to log in to my 43Things account so I could show my new colleagues what the site was all about, but was told my username or password were incorrect.  So I followed the ‘forgot username’ procedure and 43Things emailed me ‘bethgranter’ as my username to my registered email account at myemail@somewhere.com.  Then I tried to follow the ‘forgot password’ procedure and was told that username was not registered to that email address, even though 43Things had just emailed me saying that it was.  I tried to visit my page at www.43things.com/person/bethgranter and it seems 43Things have suspended my account.  I was never warned of this.  I have emailed them asking that they re-open my account and let me know why they removed it ASAP, as I have no idea what the reason could be.

Disclaimer: There’s maybe a 1% chance I cancelled my account and forgot about it but I very much doubt it because I love(d) 43Things and had spent time on my profile there.

*edit* Today 43Things.com got back to me to let me know my account had been suspended in error, so they re-enstated my profile.  The suspension was due to an apparent ‘hidden link’ to a site that had adverts on it.  The offending site was ExplorationAge.com, as I had put an ExplorationAge blog badge widget within a comment on 43Things, which contained a link to my profile on ExplorationAge.  Apparently a linked image counts as a ‘hidden link’.  Weird.  I’ve asked if it’s ok to put a link back in, but make it ‘visible’ as a text link, so I’ll see what they say.

Songza.com is the best site I’ve seen in the last couple of months. A music search engine / jukebox which also provides a player for your site, but Wordpress seems to strip the HTML code so I can’t figure out how to put it in here

Shame it’s not integrated with last.fm too. Wasted listening… it pains me.

Good points are though:

• users can rate songs as being good or bad so better recordings appear higher in search results.
• you can send your friends a link to a favourite song with an email form
• you can make your own playlist (but I don’t think you can save it to listen to later…)
• you can view the discography of the artist you’re listening to
• you can buy the song you’re listening to

Never mind MySpace DJ-ing at parties – I reckon this would be an awesome way to provide music at a party and let your guests choose the songs.