Playlist.com

Infobox Dotcom company
company_name = Project Playlist, Inc.
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company_type = Private
foundation = Beverly Hills, California
location = Beverly Hills, California
key_people = Jeremy Riney, CEO
services = software applications
address = KR Capital Partners, LLC9300 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 200Beverly Hills, CA 90212.
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url = [http://www.playlist.com/ www.playlist.com]
contract e-mail = [e-mail]
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website_type = social networking
language = English
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current_status = active Project Playlist, Inc., operator of the playlist.com website, is a Web 2.0 company much like slide.com and rockyou.com that provides widgets for MySpace and Facebook. It claims to be a search site for music files and does not store any music on their servers. It does pay royalty to music sites and all content on their site is legal. It lets users of MySpace put more music on their profiles where otherwise they would be only allowed one.

History

It was founded in the early 2000s for the purpose of putting more music on myspace and other social networking sites which only allowed one song. With the popularity of social networking sites and online blogs playlist.com has experienced enormous growth. From a userbase of less than 500,000 in the mid 2006, now the site boasts more than 20,000,000 users as of June 30, 2008. According to alexa.com, it the United States and Puerto Rico it is one the top 100 sites. It was originally known as projectplaylist.com, before it acquired its current domain name of playlist.com.

A key concern for this site was that the majority of the files linked to are pirated content distributed without the authorization of the copyright holders. On April 28th, the RIAA and a coalition of nine record labels filed a lawsuit against the company for contributing to mass copyright infringement [http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9930419-7.html] . However, it has been noted that two similar cases against MySpace and Imeem were largely the opening moves in settlements which would see these music sites licensing the content and compensating artists for the use of their music. It is possible that playlist.com would wish to pursue a similar strategy [http://news.cnet.com/newsblog/?keyword=%22Project+Playlist%22] .

Applications

Music playlist that can be embedded into MySpace, myyearbook, or Facebook using their application platform.

Social networking -- users get a free profile and have the ability to message each other and add other users as friends.

imilar services

* Anywhere.fm
* Batanga
* Deezer.com is, like imeem, a music-on-demand service.
* iLike
* imeem is a competitor to Last.fm, but the model is closer to 'YouTube for music' with music available on demand.
* Jamendo
* MeeMix
* SpiralFrog
* MOG
* Musicovery
* Pandora
* Slacker
* Zune Social
* FlyBy allows users to get music for ther iPod directly from their browsers , without having to download desktop software.(http://www.flybymusic.com)

References

http://www.playlist.com/node/491

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/playlist.com

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9939893-7.html

http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?w=640&h=480&r=4y&u=playlist.com

ee also

* Web based presentation tools

External links

* [http://www.playlist.com playlist.com] - official website
* [http://luxurydesignz.blogspot.com/ Luxury Designz] - player designs for playlist.com