Cool new service
I found a music service via Seth Godin’s blog. It is called Pandora. The concept is that by taking components of music that you enjoy they can suggest new songs that you have never heard that you will also enjoy. I have to say that they are pretty good at what they do. This is a great example of people taking something they love to do and creating a valuable business idea from it.
Hows that for a little bit of insight into my musical tastes sometimes.
Pretty slick. This actually reminds me of the mid 90’s when I discovered broadcast.com. Eventually, of course, they got bought out by Yahoo, then it got corporatized, and then it sucked.
I hope this one continues to be cool. I think that eventually they are going to put commercials on it.
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Peter Kim wrote:
Yeah, one of my coworkers told me about that recently. I think it’s kinda neat, but I think I prefer Amazon.com’s recommendation engine. Maybe this is the anti-geek/pro-artist side of me speaking but I kinda cringe at the idea that we can represent artistic expression with some sort of formula that we can use to determine what music people would probably like.
I’m not sure if they have enough of a business model to have it be successful as a standalone application. I think it’d be interesting if they sold their services as a web application component or a web service so that online music vendors can display results from pandora on a particular product page.
I’ve discovered a lot of great music by checking out the “Customers who bought this album also bought” section on the amazon.com product page. The reviews are also extremely helpful. What kind of music are you into by the way?
Posted on 09-Dec-05 at 9:57 am | Permalink
mymo wrote:
Thanks for the comment. But let’s be honest, I have never been the music lover that you are. The nice thing about this pandora thing is that I can get exposure to artists that I might like before I go drop $10 on iTunes to buy their album.
Decoding the music genome while sounding scientific and all has to be the work of some pretty serious music lovers.
As for your last question, read my next few posts.
Posted on 09-Dec-05 at 2:39 pm | Permalink