Skype launches music streaming site Rdio.com
7 Jun, 2010
The highly successful VoIP provider, Skype, is expanding its services and has a launched an online music streaming site denominated Rdio.com. Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis have explained that Rdio.com would be pronouned “AR-Di-O” and indicates a mix between radio and audio, as it reflects web 2.0 youth culture.
Despite any problems the Rdio.com domain might encounter, Zennstrom and Friis payed the almost negligible figure of $5,001 for the domain name, and if it follows in the footsteps of Skype, they’re unlikely to worry about whether anyone spells it differently at the start.
Any idea what bitrate they stream at? I’ve used other services that were inconsistent – Sony always seems to hamstring services like this by forcign them to use lower quality streams.