This is the first look at a soon to be released facebook app based around a new concept “social dressing”.

After the application is installed you can “add outfits” which your friends can then view and rate. You can also view, comment and rate your friends outfits for different occasions.

The app is still in development but I managed to get a look at the basic layout and features. I must say that it is one of the best design for a facebook app i’ve come across. I’ve attached a screen shot below.

It’s the brain child of Aron Gotwalt, he started work late last November and should be ready for launch in around two weeks.

It was 7:30 AM and I was dressing for work.

There’s nothing worse than wearing the same thing more than once a week. (Some will argue once a month, but, frankly, I do consulting for a living. That I shower and wear different things every day puts me above the median.) Dressing in the morning’s blurry, though. I should probably write it down. Write down what I’m wearing so I know not to wear it again. I bet my friends had their own opinions about the outfit. We always talk about clothing anyway, so it’d be cool to track their responses.

By the time I had a cup of coffee and half-mile walk to the office, the idea had evolved into the the basis for What U Wearin’, a Facebook application that lets you share, look, and rate fashions with your friends.

It’s shaping up to be a really solid, interesting application. Definitely one to keep an eye on.

There are many studies being performed about colors and color psychology, and one theory I enjoy agreeing with is that colors have effects on one’s mood. Have you ever taken a look at a color, and imagined further? As in, for example, you’re looking at a blue billboard and think of the sea, which in turn yields you to think in calm terms? Here, a quote from Bloomberg University:

Color, without our realizing it, can have a profound effect on how we feel both mentally and physically. Dr. Morton Walker, in his book The Power of Color, suggested that the ancient Egyptians as well as the Native American Indians used color and colored light to heal.

The article then goes on to list examples of a variety of colors triggering moods or thoughts, like blue, for example: “Blue represents peace, tranquility, calm, stability, harmony, unity, trust, truth, confidence, conservatism, security, cleanliness, order, loyalty, sky, water, cold, technology, and depression.”

So how does one utilize this? Or, even more, how can you turn something involving something as common as color and mood into anything worth venturing into and profiting?

Guitarati seems to have figured all of this out, as founder Sonal Pandey puts it, “Guitarati provides an offbeat, intuitive way of music discovery based on music-color co-relation. Amidst a world of music discovery dominated by tag clouds, 1-10 rating systems and so forth, we wanted to create something that enabled users to easily find music that others had ‘felt’ the same about.”

The thing that impresses me most about Guitarati is the creativeness of the idea, and how well they’ve pulled it off. Just recently launched in public beta, the service works well with not many visible bugs.

So how does Guitarati make money, and how is it legal? 

Guitarati provides multiple means of revenue for bands and labels, as they get
paid for song downloads as well as streaming. They (bands and labels) decide the
price of their music and retain 75% of the earnings. Record labels can manage
their entire roster and earnings through a single dashboard. Artists can upload
their unsigned as well as released albums. The website is free to use and there
are no hosting or registration fees. We also aim to offer a plethora of
unconventional tools to artists and labels to promote and sell their music.

All in all, a wonderful start-up, a creative idea turned into a profitable new pit-stop for finding music online. Check it out @ Guitarati.com

P.S. – No funding or expenses were disclosed in the e-mail we received, though check back in the comments for something from Pandey possibly.

Ever wanted to make your own game depicting some crazy situation that will more than likely never happen? Check out fyrebug.com.

Fyrebug lets you heavily customize a whole library of pre-made flash games any way you want. You can upload images from your computer or pull them from other websites. Once you’ve added some custom images you can then tweak how you want them to display.

Once you’re happy with your game you can share it with your friends and embed it in blogs and social networking profiles.

I managed to speak with Jonathan Widro, (one of the co-owners) and managed to get a bit more information about the idea behind fyrebug.

My partner and I were working at 4kids Entertainment, and worked closely with flash games. We came up with the idea for Fyrebug, but kids cant upload their own images, so we decided to pursue the idea on our own.

Designed and developed completely by Jonathon and his partner they managed to keep startup costs considerably down.

Here is a game I made depicting me and Mike Arrington having a play fight. If you have a few minutes have a play with the system and make your own game. I’d be interested to see what crazy situations indiestartup readers can create.

Domize is a very useful tool for brainstorming domain names. I’m sure we’ve all been there at some point or another. Trying to find an available domain name for a new project and wished there was a quicker way to do it.

There have been lots of domain search tools out for as long as I can remember but domize concentrates heavily on speed. Dubbed by mashable as “The Fastest Domain Name Search ever” and I would have to agree.

You just start typing in a domain name and the domains are checked on the fly. If domains are indeed taken you can hover your mouse over the extension and a nice little preview of the site is popped up.

This is useful because sometimes taken domains have “for sale” landing pages which you can check very quickly.

The site was developed by Genbook product director Anson Parker. I exchanged a few emails with Anson and he told me a bit more about the story behind Domize.

I built Domize as a side project over a few nights because I wanted a faster, simpler way to look up domain names. I am often brainstorming ideas for web applications and always enjoy finding a free .com domain name to go along with that idea. I have only ever built out a few of these projects, but have somehow collected around 50 domain names in the process.

While there were already some ‘instant’ domain name tools out there, I found them clunky, full of ads and basically just no fun to use. There are also concerns that some of these tools are simply a way for people to steal ideas for good domain names, which is why I wanted to make Domize an encrypted SSL application by default.

Domize also has support for iphone users so you can check for available domains anywhere. It’s a very useful tool so check it out.

Dorble is an interesting new startup offering a searchable database of downloadable and streaming music.

Dorble crawls the internet in search for music files to index and add to their database. All of the music files are hosted on remote servers, dorble just provides a way of indexing that content and makes it searchable. Currently they have quite a limited number of indexed songs and artists (I performed a search for a few reasonably big bands and nothing was returned) but they’re growing the database all the time.

The site has some really nice apple-coverflow-style flash effects like the one you see above that break up the design of the very google-esq homepage.

I spoke with the owner and while he didn’t go into detail too much detail about how much he has spent so far he did tell me it was under $10k.

Some might question the legality of sites like this so it will be an interesting site to keep an eye on. If they can get past the possible legal issues that may arise then monetizing the search results should be a walk in the park. Anyway, i wish them the best of luck.