Qbox Relaunches

I posted about Qbox before here (Yes, I advise them). They just relaunched their beta after going back to the vault and streamlining their online music service. Also they have a new CEO, Peter Keum, who was recently Director of Business Development at Quigo until AOL bought for $340 million. Peter is an old friend that I've known since he was a senior at Harvard. I'm glad that he's on board helping Ian and the rest of the team.

Anyway, here is some press about their new beta launch:

"Qbox could be the ultimate music player...if it worked" CNET's Matt Rosoff
Mixed review. He liked the concept but ran into some bugs. Qbox will win him over.

"Qbox, maker of desktop music player, seeks first VC round" The Deal

Qbox Facebook App Launches!

Qbox is a cool startup that I advise. It's a social music play that allows users to access and play free music through their player/application. You can either download it for your desktop, embed a player on your blog (e.g. Xanga, Blogger:), or as they just launched several hours ago on your Facebook profile. What's cool is that typically a video from YouTube or another social network plays in the embedded player, so your blog or site becomes more active and lively.

Here are some screenshots from my Facebook profile:




I didn't post this before, but VentureBeat referred to them in a longer piece on online music sites, "38 free/cheap music sites — Welcome to the fray, Qbox!"