Aug 8, 2011
Actually, there are better things a smart software engineer can do with his time and money than build a complete rip-off of a service that is less than three months old. As a ploy to get acqui-hired by Facebook for its secret Vibes project, this is pretty clever. But in terms of its contribution to the start-up ecosystem, music or otherwise, its a bad precedent and a poor example.
pretty much summarizes how I feel about it.
admittedly, though, the fact that there is already a clone of turntable.fm is interesting - it means people are taking note that this is a winning idea. Â expect more clones (and hopefully, more social music sites that AREN'T just copycats). Â
