A while back, I posted about Pandora and Last.FM, two new music-discovery services I ran into. Since then, I hadn’t run into anything too exciting until I discovered La La. I was reading about the service in a Business 2.0 article over the weekend. The concept seems sweet (quoting from the site):
“‘la la’ finds members that have the CDs you want. You pay only $1 per CD received from other ‘la la’ members (plus standard shipping charges). The number of CDs you receive will depend on how many CDs you ship to other members.”

I am going to ship my first CD soon…

Along with Bookins, which does the same for books (and to which I also subscribed, though I found their selection to be visibly more limited than the one offered by La La), they are part of a handful of companies entering this media-swapping space. All of them on a per-invitation basis, but it took little time after I registered for an account for the invitation to arrive in my inbox.

So far, supposedly my first book is on its way (I haven’t paid a penny so far). It’s Freakanomics. I will let you know how the experiment goes!