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Epic Fail? Take Two. Dorble Rises from Gimado’s Ashes.

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If you head to a new site called Dorble, you may notice its resemblance to another site, Gimado, that launched a couple of months ago. That’s because it’s created by the same person that gave us Gimado. There’s a long and winded story behind the reasons for the reincarnation of a site so similar, but all those details aren’t being disclosed.

So far, Dorble is more straight forward and has the added aesthetic benefit of cover art. But I did wonder why the man behind it all decided to do it again, instead of go a different route? Though the time between Gimado and Dorble was short, it was enough time for Imeem to open its platform for developers, essentially minimizing the fear factor for starting a site similar to Seeqpod, which has been sued by Warner (surprise).

I know the platform approach isn’t for everybody, so I asked. Did Nicholas Sheriff, creator of Dorble, just not like Imeem’s platform? Sherrif responded as such:

“I do with what it means for the future of media related applications. However, its main focus is to bring licensed music onto a new platform that imeem owns. In theory access to the database of licensed music seems like a dream for developers but I don’t see imeem bringing the future of music on a new commerce platform for artists.”

It may seem that way right now, but Imeem has noted its hope that the lording music industry will in fact be able to better support developers like Sherrif in the future. Until then, Sherrif has bigger plans for making his own platform geared towards attracting artists to form a virtual music label. What Sherrif’s plans for Dorble boil down to are a new way of distributing music. Can Dorble do it on this second time around the block?

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