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"Humble Voice, which launched this week, is a new community for musicians, filmmakers, photographers, artists and writers.  The most striking aspect is its simple, attractive design, which feels like a magazine cover and is almost too pretty to touch.  Artists, creative people and even the unwashed masses can create profile pages, add a photo, upload their media, update a bulletin board, build a network of friends, leave comments for one another and send messages.  Bands and musicians, meanwhile, have special accounts: they get a \"mini-site\" tailored to their needs.  \nThe profile editor is an awesome feature: like Netvibes and PageFlakes, it allows you to drag, drop and edit widgets effortlessly, as well as adding tabbed pages when you run out of space.  This means that while all the profiles have a similar feel, they also have unique layouts.  The rest of the site, meanwhile, is like a cross between DeviantArt, a high class YouTube (LiberatedFilms, perhaps) and a writing community like Urbis.  All the media on the site can be rated, tagged and bookmarked.  In the music space, related services include ProjectOpus, FineTune, ReverbNation, MusicHawk and MP3.com.   \nThey've built a points system, too, which rewards users for their participation.  Soon you'll be able to exchange your points for rewards like t-shirts, cameras, iPods and even a scooter (you might have to save up for a while!).  These points systems are becoming increasingly common: XuQa is the obvious example.\nHowever, the beautiful design also means there's less content on the page: perhaps that's to emphasize quality over quantity, but you'll inevitably view less pages on Humble Voice than you would elsewhere.  What's more, HV is another new player in a crowded market, and most artists would be wise to follow the audience by joining the larger existing communities - as a result, I don't see it being a hit.  That said, I think it's a great site and I hope Humble Voice manages to carve out a niche in the face of tough competition.  \n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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