Jango Archive

NY-based Social Internet Radio provider Jango is announcing that they have hit the 1 million listener mark in just 60 days in public beta. In my tests, the service is fun and I now know what some of the other journalists’ music tastes are. 

The company describes the service as: Jango combines music and social networking by enabling listeners to not only create their own custom stations – but also tune in to each other’s stations in a fun and easy way. Its unique “social music player” lets you actually see who’s listening to the same artists at the same time as you, who’s tuning in to your stations, and what music your friends are playing. At any time, you can tune in and listen to any station.

The real "viral power" of Jango is in the widgetization. Once you create a radio station that you like, you can stick it in widget form on your blog or MySpace profile. Regarding the widgets, CEO Dan Kaufman noted, "Until now, music widgets have been surprisingly drab and boring. The Jango Jukebox is the first music widget that’s really cool looking and fun to use – perfect for anyone who wants to spice up their MySpace page”.

The site competes with leaders Pandora and Last.fm. For December 2007, Compete shows Last.fm at 990k visitors, Pandora at 1.5 million and Jango with a more rapid growth curve at 423k.

It’s great to see a NY-based company experiencing rapid growth and I will contact them for a full interview in the coming week.

Below are four of the newest startups according to Killer Startups for the period ending October 26, 2007. Check out previous Killer Startups posts.

Bloove – Manage Your Mobile from Your Computer

Bloove is a new phone management service. Basically, with Bloove you can edit your address book and speed dial settings, send messages, and call people from your browser. You’ll first need to download the Bloover Agent to your phone, but no special software is needed for you computer. This means you can obsess about your phone even if you don’t have it with you. read more »

BiggerBoat – Entertainment Search for Everyone

BiggerBoat is an entertainment search engine which gives you breadth You’ll be able to find both popular, top of the charts stuff and niche, longtail thrills. They claim to be better, than the rest, offering more specific, spot-on results, and metadata by maintaining a broad index of everything out there on the wild wild web. They’ll do the filtering so you can do the enjoying. They’ll find free, ad-supported stuff, premium products, and consumer generated content. read more »

Conteio – Keeping Your Blog Fresh with A Widget

As a blogger or site manager, how do you keep your public interested? How do you liven up your blog with cool, interesting, and novel content? To that end you could consider Conteio, a start-up which is changing the way relevant, online substance is found and distributed throughout the web. With the Conteio Contextual (C3) Widget, you bloggers can keep things new and snappy, as Conteio delivers your readers contextually pertinent up-to-the-minute content. read more »

ChoiceA – Directly Connecting Buyers and Sellers

Concerning real estate the good people of ChoiceA.com believe there are two choices. Choice A would be to do it yourself, and choice B would be to get an agent. ChoiceA.com helps you choose choice A by creating a site that has pulled together the useful material from the web and creating a space where buyers and sellers can connect directly without a middle man. ChoiceA.com helps both buyers and sellers find what they are looking for. read more »

Jango – Social Music Discovery Site Like the Rest

New comer Jango is joining a bevy of other social music discovery and recommendation sites. The sheer saturation of that market, however has not deterred the Jango team from creating a straight forward, and simple site that will draw in music lovers like flies. Once you’re a registered member, you’ll get to configure your own stations. Start by typing in the name of an artist/band that you like, from there, Jango will give you a list of similar artists which you can add to your station by checking off the boxes. read more »