Thursday, August 2, 2007

Out of the Box


Pandora is a music Web 2.0 site. The folks at Pandora have created the Music Genome Project in which they have analyzed tons of different music and broken it down into its "genes" thereby enabling them to create an entire "radio station" based upon a song or artist that you like. It's fun, easy to use, and works well. You pick a song or artist and the site starts playing songs for you that are similar to your pick. You then have the option of saying "yes, I like" or "no, I don't like." The only slight criticism I have is that their analysis of songs can yield some odd choices in your "radio station." Doesn't really have a library application that I can see since we tend to discourage, if not negate, sound capabilities.

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