38 free/cheap music sites — Welcome to the fray, Qbox!

38 free/cheap music sites — Welcome to the fray, Qbox!

Ever since Napster brought free MP3s mainstream — and subsequently garnered the wrath of the Recording Industry Association of America — the music industry has been reeling.
No single strategy for listening to music online has come to dominate the market, as record labels, managers,… Continue Reading

Q&A with iLike’s Ali Partovi, on Facebook

Q&A with iLike’s Ali Partovi, on Facebook

A few days after social network site Facebook opened its platform to third-party sites, iLike, a popular music sharing site has scored 723,936 users on Facebook. It is by far the most popular application. We interviewed iLike chief executive, Ali Partovi. He compares Facebook’s platform… Continue Reading

Start-up advice for entrepreneurs, from Y Combinator Startup School

Start-up advice for entrepreneurs, from Y Combinator Startup School

Here’s a summary of the more compelling tips given by several tech industry luminaries — including Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Gmail creator Paul Buchheit, Sequoia Capital venture capitalist Greg McAdoo — at the Y Combinator Startup School event at Stanford this weekend.
The event attracted… Continue Reading