Category: Pandora
Just the other day, I introduced my mother to music recommendation service Pandora. We'd been discussing how my grandfather used to love listening to barbershop music and she said she missed it and would love to find a way to listen. Finding the music she wanted, however, was not so easy, as we needed to find the right band or song that exemplified the music she wanted to hear - it was a journey through Google, Wikipedia, AllMusic and a number of other sites.
Today, Pandora will make this type of musical browsing easier with the addition of station-creation based on musical genres, instead of just bands or songs.Continue
Fans of "old media" who treasure the sensation of flipping through inky newsprint have argued against the customized curation of Internet news. As they see it, this eliminates the chance of discovering a story or topic you didn't know you were looking for. However, the Internet has been known to leverage technology in order to resolve these conflicts.Continue
Free streaming music recommendation service Pandora Radio will turn 5 years old this week, and it's hard to think of very many social web technologies that have touched more peoples' lives. On August 29th, 2005, Pandora opened from private beta to the public with a feature-set much like what it has today.Continue
We don't know about you, but whether it's asking friends, reading music blogs, or surfing music recommendation systems like Pandora or Last.fm, we're always on the search for new music. Continue
Mobile media company ParkVu is today introducing a new Facebook application called Music WithMe which publishes your iTunes music library to Facebook where the tracks it contains can be shared, liked, commented on and discussed among your friends.
The app, which also requires a desktop software download (currently Windows-only, Mac coming soon), connects your iTunes music library to Facebook and then continually syncs changes as you purchase and add new music. Continue
Although a majority of folks might still rely on traditional means such as the radio to discover new music, the competition is constantly heating up in the online music discovery realm, with services like Pandora, The Hype Machine and Last.fm always looking to recommend that next song or artist. Continue
It's been four months since we first got a preview of online music service MOG's mobile offerings for Android and iPhone and now the waiting is finally over. Like most any new app, it has a few bugs and a few features missing (like multitasking and fast app switching for iOS 4) that we hope to see with future updates, but otherwise proves to be a solid entry into mobile, cloud-based music apps.Continue
When we think "slacker", we think dirty jeans, video games, gas station food and couches. But now, a partnership between ABC News and streaming music service Slacker Radio is looking to redefine our knee-jerk association, bringing news to those who can't care enough to actively chose their music. (We jest.)
The partnership was first announced back in January at the Consumer Electronics Show, but is finally going live today.Continue
Some surveys come out and my first response is the people asking the questions obviously weren't talking to me or my friends. A perfect example of this is the latest survey by mobile entertainment company Myxer, which tells us that the CD still reigns supreme, the radio is the top source for music discovery and Pandora - the website designed to play music customized to your expressed taste - ranks second to last in how we find new tunes to add to our collections.
While the survey tries to tell us that things haven't changed as much as we'd like to think, we believe that the scales have tipped and the end of days are near for the old guard.Continue
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