Sunday, September 9, 2007
Random.
I was introduced to a website, www.pandora.com by a fellow classmate a few weeks ago. It is basically a streaming radio website, where you input either a band or title of song you like and it will try to play more songs that they think you'd like. It's labeled as part of the 'Musical Genome Project". Pretty good for killing time when you don't have your own mp3 player or laptop with you and want to maybe find some new music. What did this have to do with MIS?.. The concept of this website makes me wonder how many and how complicated the information systems are for this website. How does the process work, for the program to select a song/band that is similar? As each song plays, you can choose to give it a thumbs up or thumbs down. Imagine how valuable that information would be to marketing agencies to know what listeners enjoy and don't enjoy. You guys should check it out, I normally have it stream while i'm cleaning. Less hassle than a radio and more music that you might like.
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First, I just wanted to say awesome name Hamburgarlar.
I covered Pandora for a publication. The site is pretty cool. The site analyzes the music that you choose to start out with. For example if you like fast beats with quick rhymes you’ll get similar artists such as “Twista” or “Bone Thugz N’ Harmony.” Essentially, if you like this you’ll get more of that. The site builds a database and keeps streaming you music that you like. The more music that you select the more defined music the site offers to you to listen.
The site is cool in the sense that it opens your music mind up. You’ll find out that you like music or artists that you never dreamed of liking.
I highly encourage anyone with 5 minutes to spare to check it out!
I was checking out this site last night and I just wanted to say "THANKS!" This actually helps me pick out songs to burn! LOL! I find this website very useful because it actually can find songs simular to what you are looking for. Noy only that, it was really easy to navigate. Not hard at all. thanks!
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