Recently, I've been working a number of side projects to stay current with technology trends.  For one of the projects, I've been working with a developer (Jon Bardin) to create VeeJay.tv, a social media site which allows users to create music video sets which can be shared with others.  It's something we're doing just for fun - it's not something we're trying to monetize.

The video content is pulled from three sources: Yahoo Music, MTV Music, and YouTube.  The content is made available through open API's, which VeeJay.tv makes available to users in a single, consolidated interface.  We even pull lyrics from another service when available.  The service includes integration to Facebook, using Facebook Connect, which allows integrated registration and posting of content.  Although the service was intended to be an experiment to give us more experience with mashups and Facebook integration, the service is growing without any work to promote it.

The project originated at Mashup Camp a couple of months ago.  Jon and I wanted to do something fun that would also allow us to explore some newly released API's and also get some experience with Facebook integration.  Originally, we started with Yahoo integration, and later we added MTV and YouTube.  The aggregation across all three sources results in pretty wide coverage of artists and songs.

The site is still a bit rough and we need some visual design help, but it's working well.  Last night, we threw a going-away party for a friend and we put the site to the test.  I created a bunch of music video sets to play as background entertainment at the party.  It was a big hit!  Check it out in the photos - I hooked up my laptop to our TV (using a DVI to HDMI adapter) and also to our stereo.  We all had fun watching/listening and it almost turned into Karaoke night with a few of the songs.

Check out the playlists that I made for the party (our friend Michelle is leaving San Francisco for Paris, so we made it an American-themed party):

Check it out and let us know what you think!

You can see VeeJay.tv playing on our TV in one of the photos....