I watched a video of Michael Arrington interviewing David Hyman (founder of Gracenote) talking about his new music service, MOG. Similar to Last.FM, automatically scans your playing habits from any MP3 player on your computer and posts these into playlists on your MOG profile - you can suppress or expose what you want. Also, has TripAdvisor or Yelp community aspect. But kicker is tight integration with Rhapsody. They built a very nice Ruby front-end that allows you to search by keyword (e.g., "Dylan blowing wind" returns what you'd expect) that is built on Rhapsody's public APIs. Arrington thought that was very nice, potentially something Rhapsody might be interested in.
They've taken $3MM in funding from angels (mostly from Gracenote angels), have 13 employees in Berkeley, 1MM UU, and 100K reg'd users. During the interview comparisons were made to Last.FM, Seekpod, Screamer, and Fraunhofer (from whom they've poached their Ruby guy).
Link to blog entry and interview
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