Mercora gives up on subscriptions
Filed in archive Companies by Marc on April 13, 2006

More from the mercifully concise press release.
Santa Clara, CA - April 3, 2006 - Mercora, the Internet's largest and fastest growing user-contributed and user-programmed digital radio network, today introduced Radio 2.0 - the next generation social radio and music platform.
The Radio 2.0 platform enables social radio on a global scale and combines the power of people, their music and audio, distributed processing, digital streaming and tagging to create one of the largest 100% user-contributed and user-programmed social radio networks on the Internet.
Radio 2.0:
* Enables music-centric communities, musical self-expression, and social music discovery using a streaming radio metaphor
.* Provides multi-dimensional social search and discovery of both music and people across the web, desktop and distributed desktops.
* Is built on Ajax to provide a rich in-browser experience and uses open media formats such as Ogg/Vorbis and MP3 to provide a rich audio experience.
* Enables personalization through user-contributed tags, reviews and recommendations, and rich interaction through presence, chat and inter-personal messaging.
* With users in 140 countries worldwide, the Radio 2.0 platform automatically enforces country-specific copyright compliance, reporting and royalty payment.
* Seamlessly integrates with all major IM systems from AOL, Google, MSN and Yahoo for single sign-on and social network-building services.
* Provides contextual search advertising capabilities, allowing advertisers to place text advertisements for music-centric keywords.
Mercora is launching an entirely new product line based on the Radio 2.0 platform, including:
1. Mercora IM Radio 5.0 - Social radio software for Windows XP and 2000 (available today)
2. Radio2-0.com - Web 2.0 implementation for browser-only access (available today)
3. Mobile Social Radio - Social radio software for devices and smartphones supporting Windows Mobile (April 06)
4. My Audio Locker - Personal music locker hosted and managed by Mercora (April 06)
5. Madwords 2.0 - Second generation contextual self-service advertising framework for music and music-centric advertisers (May 06)
6. Mercora "Music Search" Syndication tool (available today)
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