TeamSugar Promotes Karaoke Contest, but Seth is Cooler!

I found myself on POPSUGAR after being up at the Future of Web Apps summit last week in San Francisco. I’m not an avid connoisseur of the rich and famous, BUT I love what social networking has done to open up a plethora of opportunities for all types of brands. For instance, Bix.com. Ever heard of them? Me neither. But supposedly they host contests for other brands like Roxio Best Back to School Photo, Wackiest Talent, Popsugar’s Sing Your Heart Out contest where you win a free Prada bag, a favorite of Madonna, Posh and Halle.

So PopSugar has branched off another social network division called TEAM Sugar. Man, all this pink cotton candy mashed up with celebrity news is like heaven for the teen girl demographic. But the real celebrities, I thought, lay in this Bix.com site where amateur songers, actors and likes allow themselves to be distributed like characters across various online contests. Whatever happened to just going to the bar on Wednesdays and singing karaoke in a front a large crowd of strangers? Well, the internet of course. Now you can sit in the comfort of your home and broadcast your strengths and weaknesses to the public without ever needing to leave. You give people the tools to display their hidden talents and the offset of the “comfort factor” gives you Bix.com.

The real celebrity for me on this day is Seth Starts School. You go Seth, enjoy your fiirst day of school!