Social Networking - Thursday, June 29, 2006
iBloks Raises $3M For Personalized Somethings
We missed the report last week that San Francisco-based iBloks had raised $3M from Seattle-based Maveron. The a:c had reported on iBlok's $500K angel round last January led by Hollywood types.
Since the angel round, iBloks has officially launched its service. Other reports suffer from the challenge of describing iBlocks. Its kind of a personalized greeting cards service, except it included music mixings and widgets that can be bought.
iBlok's Music Mixer
For a funded service that has been around since August, iBloks is not getting much traffic. We suspect their marketing model will be to partner with a traffic gate-keeper like MSN rather than viral traffic, but still it must be disappointing for them to have put so much money and effort into this thingamajig and nobody noticed.
Read - Hollywood Types Invest in iBloks (the a:c)
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