SubscribeXiami: P2P music sharing
We have been hearing about Xiami’s new beta from multiple sources. Xiami is a P2P music sharing community. The key services include a P2P client, web based metadata directory and economy system.
To have a preview of the music, you don’t need the client. There’s a web based music player. But to download the music, [...]
Google China Launches mp3 Search
It has been said in the market for quite a long time that Google China invested in Top100.cn, a legit online music download service, and will release a mp3 search service soon. Today the news is official. Google China’s mp3 search service is online already.
Google mp3 search now allows users to search mp3, listening [...]
Chinese Digital Music Service A8 To Go Public in HongKong
A8.com, an online and wireless digital music service established in 2000 in China, plans to go public in Hongkong Exchange(0800.HK) to raise as much as HK$ 217 million. In 2004 and 2005, IDGVC, TDF, Intel Capital and JAFCO invested in two round of financing in A8.com.
According to its prospectus, A8 mainly sells digital music [...]
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 [...]
Music Recommender News: LikeNote and 8box’s New Widgets
LikeNote is a DJ powered music recommendation website. It seems it has just turned one today. It’s a one-person project of Mulder.
As Mulder said, LikeNote is not like a web2.0 website, because it’s not open for registration. All the DJ’s are invited. The website is like a group music blog. But certainly massive visitors can [...]