http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-goom-radio-raises-16m-first-round/
Goom is (or says it will be) “HD sound” programmed internet radio with DJ programming and user-created stations.
I met Zac Bjelgrlic, the CTO for Goom last summer at an OpenID conference. At the time he worked for BBC and I was trying to network my way into the BBC to find out more about their work on Musicbrainz when he told me he was leaving for Goom. I followed up with him a couple times, at one point disclosing that we operate AOL Radio and Shoutcast. We haven’t connected since.
You can sign up for their US beta invite at the bottom of goomradio.com, but why wait for personalization in the US. Go to goomradio.com/fr or http://www.goomradio.com/goomWeb/home.do to try the product live as it is being marketed in France since it is not effectively georestricted.
The interface and player station-customization is neat. Not sure how they’ll make the business work. My sense is that they take a loss on the royalty-bearing DJ programming to motivate people to heavy up on user-gen uploads and playlists and don’t pay royalties on those, and net positive with advertising.