If MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and Second Life aren't giving you enough social networking in your life, now you can share your budding vocal talents with web users everywhere through SingShot, a website devoted to creating, sharing, and commenting on other people's renditions of "Yesterday" by the Beatles or "Crazy" by Patsy Cline.
A site like this could be quite useful in education - vocal students, instrumentals or actors and performers could post their work and invite critiques and suggestions from other users. However, it would run into problems with student privacy laws if done in connection with an institution or course.
A commentator at Slate comments on using SingShot.
I started belting out songs—"Heartbreaker," "Independent Women"—that I would've never dared to perform in front of a live audience. I stayed up nights recording take after take, track after track. But to my chagrin, the bleats that came out of my throat sounded feeble. My voice cracked on high notes; I had trouble with rhythm. The main advantage of a karaoke Web site, I learned, is that I could humiliate myself 24 hours a day.
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