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iJigg is a social music site that lets users vote on submitted singles using Digg-like voting. The site's home page shows what popular or recent singles the iJigg community is "jigging." Users can rate songs, embed songs on MySpace or find similar music fans. Competitors include Contrastream. Social music competitors include FineTune, Last.fm, Pandora and iLike.
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| May 27, 2008 | TipJoy's New API Lets Web Apps Share the Love (and Cash) With Their Contributors | How do you get more people top leave tips on blogs? Try to make your tip jar app into a platform that spreads the wealth to more people. Y Combinator startup TipJoy is trying to do that with a new platform API for Web applications that will... |
| Apr 10, 2008 | iJigg's Shadab Frooqui, just 26, didn't intend to found a company | To hear how a 25-year-old native of Bombay built a cool music sharing site with his younger brother, and suddenly found himself the CEO of a startup company that got seed funding from Y Combinator, listen to this interview with iJigg's Shad... |
| Aug 29, 2007 | iJigg, Digg for music, growing despite competition | iJigg is what it sounds like: A social media ranking site like Digg, but for finding great music. The site’s front page features the most popular tracks and newest tracks from other users, that you can listen to with a click of a button wit... |
| Feb 5, 2007 | Social Music Overview | Keeping with the theme of Mike’s Online Photo Editing Overview, I wanted to cover some of the entrants into social music. Music was probably the first type of rich media to really go “Web 2.0” and it’s become a pretty popular place for star... |
| Jan 18, 2007 | Jigg That Music | iJigg is a new, easy-on-the-eyes music site that launched a couple of days ago – we first saw it on the TechCrunch Forums. Think Digg for music, plus lots of Flash functionality. Songs are presented on the home page and can be “jigged” by m... |
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FAQ about iJigg/Top440
What has the press written about iJigg/Top440?
Parsers VC has collected 6 articles mentioning iJigg/Top440, among them “TipJoy's New API Lets Web Apps Share the Love (and Cash) With Their Contributors” (May 27, 2008) and “iJigg's Shadab Frooqui, just 26, didn't intend to found a company” (Apr 10, 2008).
Is iJigg/Top440 still active?
Yes, iJigg/Top440 is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Apr 9, 2021.