Budding musicians who want to make an impression online don't need to download fancy software, set up a website or scour MySpace for potential friends. In fact, they often don't even need to know how to play a single note.
Community sites like Jamglue, Splice and SingShot are combining social networking with innovative tools that let users create, share and remix each other's songs inside a web browser.
Interactive software like Flash and Ajax are fueling an explosion of online services that give the web's artistic amateurs a stage on which to display their talents.