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."