Social Music Service Updates: Yobo.com and 8box.cn

The social music recommendation service MyStrands announced it completed series B financing, which brings its total financing to $55 million. The social music recommendation services in China are not so lucky, but they are trying their best to develop services which can attract Chinese online music users, most of them rely on Baidu mp3 search [...]

Yiqilai.com: Yet Another Online Music Discovery Service

Yiqilai.com released its new version in late September 2007 and jumped into China’s online music discovery battle field where 8box.cn, Yobo.com and dola.com.cn already compete against each other. We compared these services earlier here and here.
Like its competitors, Yiqilai.com’s goal is to copy the success of Pandora and Last.fm to China. Yiqilai is more like [...]

Dola (aka LazyFM) Facts Checking

Riku has found a new music service that looks like Pandora, and with a name sounds like Pandora’s brother – Dola.
The company behind Dola is MusicGene, a Shanghai based startup. Some readers have pointed out that their website is much like MusicGenome, an Israel company.
Dola originally was LazyFM. Here’s one of their presentation on a [...]

Comparing Online Music Services

Since the latest launches of online music services like Musicpaw and Yobo, we have been tracking online music services that can help you search, organize, listen, share and discover music online.
What differentiates music from other media like article, photo and video is that you would listen to music you like again and again, while you [...]