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Remember those mix tapes your buddies use to make you? Ok, maybe if you are under 25 years old you probably haven’t even seen a cassette in real life. But take my word for it, it was cool at one point in time.

Muxtape is bringing back some retro-chic to the online music sharing community. It allows you to make a MP3 online ‘muxtape’ up to 12 songs at 10 MBytes each. The design and execution is dead simple but some how very appealing. It looks like someone made it in their bedroom when they were grounded by their parents. Its design is also clearly Apple inspired with its iphone-esque interface but i suspect it does not work on an iphone since the music is played via a Flash media player embedded on the site.

Take a look for yourself and I’ll be waiting to hear your very own muxtape.

Yesterday Google launched a limited-release preview of their Web Services stack call Google AppEngine. Below are videos from their first ‘Campfire’ demostration of the product. Sounded like it was a cold night in Mountain View…

Still looking for that Hulu invite? They decided to offer 2500 public invites through selected blogs. Get them while you can. They are going fast…

TechCrunch – Already ran out
GigaOm – 1766 left as of posting
ReadWriteWeb – 2207 left as of posting
Ars Technica – All 2500 still available as of posting

The above list ranks the mega bloggers in order of douchbaggy-ness.

Update: Mashable also was graced with their very own 2500 invites.

Driftr.com is a new traveler centric social networking site. I just got my invite last night and gave it a quick spin around the block.

The alpha release has a nice and polished Web 2.0 design with plenty of AJAX. As it is still a alpha release, many of the features are still not enabled. The site lets you log the time, place and details of the trips you have taken and organizes them via a visual map display or chronological drop down list. You can upload photos directly to driftr.com or link your flickr photos to their site via the flickr API.

Driftr allows you to enter places you stayed as well as places you ate at which I guess will eventually allow them to build a database of user reviews to compete with Yelp.com.

The current implementation is very basic but it has promise assuming more useful features are added. A few that come to mind are trip planning and peer recommendations. I’ve got a few more invites so let me know if you want to try it out.

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Anyone listened to the latest TWIT? I know, I know, who the hell listens to this circle jerk podcast anymore… I was desperate! OK?! It was at least comical when Web 2.0 douchbag Jason Calacanis called those trippy distorted letters on registration pages ‘CATCH-PA’s. Skip to 8:24 to hear the Sequoia Capital golden boy create podcasting history.

BTW, the guys at the online backup startup Mozy can’t be too thrill neither when the Bulldog referred to them as ‘Moxy’. (Skip to 45:30).