With tens of millions of unique visitors each month, social networking and media sites have become a leading destination for music search and discovery, allowing artists and fans to interact directly. But such services tend to search only their own sites, are largely browser-dependent, and offer limited listening and bookmarking options.

Qbox is an integrated hybrid desktop/web application, designed for user freedom and access to content from multiple social networks.

  -- Qbox's Qplayer is an ultra-light download and unobtrusive desktop
     player that provides on-demand access to over 21 million songs from
     MySpace, YouTube, and Bebo - with more supported sites to come.
  -- Meanwhile, Qbox.com offers library and playlist management, and acts as
     a collaborative database of streaming music, continually edited and
     improved by users and artists.

"Qbox is essentially an online remote control for all the social network music now available," said Peter Keum, CEO of Qbox Corporation. "We've made it possible for an entirely new user experience, where the listener has complete freedom to enjoy music from any connected computer and, at the same time, manage their music library online."

  Key features of Qbox's service include:
  -- Seamless Playback -- Users enjoy seamless, continuous listening as Qbox
     streams tracks from multiple social sites into a single playlist.
  -- Music Bookmarking and Online Management -- With the "Music Clipping"
     feature, users can easily "save" streaming links to their Qbox.com
     libraries, which are automatically organized by artist and album.
  -- Music Feed - Similar to Facebook's extremely popular News Feed feature,
     the Music Feed allows users to follow their friends' music listening
     patterns and discoveries.

The new service further enhances the listening, discovery, and sharing experience with tools that include behavior-based music recommendation and genre tagging. By analyzing musicians' friend lists on MySpace, Qbox's proprietary, behavior-based "Emotional Link" suggests new music based on predicted tastes, and expands music discovery by incorporating the entire MySpace user base into the recommendation algorithm. Additionally, Qbox has adopted the 126-genre taxonomy used by MySpace, ennabling users to discover new music by genre.

Later this summer, Qbox will also go live with its Link-2-Music application, an innovative new feature to complement its current service. With the downloadable, browser-based Qbox Toolbar, artists and song titles in Google Music and Wikipedia will be converted to streaming music links instantly playable in Qplayer.

About Qbox Corporation

Qbox is an online, streaming social network music service that makes it easy for users to search, organize, and listen to the entire catalog of free and legally available online music on sites like MySpace, YouTube and Bebo. Qbox lets users manage their social network music library online, interact directly with artists and share what they are listening to with friends. The company is privately funded by several private investors and its employees. For more information, please go to http://www.qbox.com/.

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Source: Qbox Corporation