2007 – 2010retired
GOOG-411
“Free 411, sweet talker — you dialed the world and never charged us a dime”
“It streamed your songs, shared your playlists, and quietly became the future of Apple Music.”
Lala was an online music store from Silicon Valley entrepreneur Bill Nguyen, with a home page proudly claiming over 8 million licensed songs. Members could legally create shareable playlists of their own uploaded music that played full-length songs for other registered members, buy MP3s and inexpensive streaming "web songs," purchase CDs, and swap blurbs in community forums. It was that rare thing: a music service wi
Apple acquired Lala on December 4, 2009, and by April 30, 2010 the shutdown was announced for May 31, with credit balances converted to iTunes Store credit. The service went dark as scheduled — though it lingered a while longer as the music engine behind Billboard.com's full-length Top 100 previews, before that too moved on to MySpace Music.
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“Free 411, sweet talker — you dialed the world and never charged us a dime”
“It gave the world headphones as a lifestyle and never once asked us to share.”
“The serious one in the family, quietly keeping the servers running while everyone fawned over the desktop kids”