June202008
QBox - “a social network music player”
By indexing the entire music inventories on the largest social networks, Qbox makes it easy for users to seamlessly and easily search, organize and listen to all the music available across multiple social sites through one simple interface. The music player from Qbox, the “Qplayer,” offers listeners a refined way to access on-demand as well as peer recommendation- and genre- based streaming of over 21 million songs on sites like MySpace.com, YouTube.com, Bebo.com and other leading social networks. Meanwhile, it is also a collaborative database of streaming music, continually edited and improved by users and artists.
Key features of Qbox’s streaming social network music service include:
- My Library — Users can easily collect (using the innovative “music clipping” feature) and organize songs scattered across the social web in their online Library.
- Genres — Songs are categorized by the 126 genres used on MySpace Music, facilitating easy access to new music by genre.
- Music Feed — Similar to Facebook’s extremely popular News Feed feature, the Music Feed feature allows users to view their friends’ music listening activities.
- Social network-based Recommendation — By analyzing musicians’ friend lists on MySpace, Qbox’s proprietary, behavior-based “Emotional Link” suggests new music based on predicted tastes, and expands music discovery by incorporating the entire MySpace user base into the recommendation algorithm.
Initially, the social network music streaming service from Qbox is designed to provide music listeners a convenient way to find and enjoy music on social network sites. In the near future, the service will expand to provide benefits to the artists who publish their work on social networking sites for their fans to consume. Stay tuned…
- Link-2-Music — With the downloadable, browser-based Qbox Toolbar, artists and song titles in Google Music and Wikipedia can be converted to streaming music links instantly playable in Qplayer.
