Posts Tagged with ‘jango’

The social music and online radio site known as Jango has proved to be quite the popular newcomer, having announced today that the free service has more than 1 million listeners who have created a total of more than 3 million custom Internet radio stations.
Pretty impressive news for a service which only publicly launched just two short months ago. Even more impressive are the stats available from Compete.com, which show that Jango is already aimed at similar well-established services in [...]

We first covered Jango in late October. We published a brief review of the startup, in which we essentially laid out an admiring conclusion overall. How to sum it up? Basically, we found it to be an appealing play on the Pandora concept, one with a rather unique approach. Its feature set could also be said to harbor a few touches new to the market.
And in addition to its initial launch setup, we also received a few words about its [...]

Internet radio is not a new invention by any means. According to the almighty and omniscient Wikipedia, it had its start somewhere around 1993, a year in which a man by the name of Carl Malamud established the first Internet radio ?station,? dubbed Internet Talk Radio, using MBONE (IP Multicast Backbone on the Internet) technology. In subsequent years, new outlets proceeded to sprout, with their numbers increasing substantially, to the point at which a viable industry was established. Today, thousands [...]