Archive for September, 2008
Why I Love Pandora
Posted by Jamie Hutson | Filed under Life, sharing applications, social media
I love Pandora. It has added some amazing new features and I’ve discovered some old ones as well. I haven’t written anything in a while, and something I saw on Pandora just got me motivated. For those of you who don’t know Pandora, here’s the Wikipedia: “Pandora is an automated music recommendation and Internet radio service created by the Music Genome Project. Users enter a song or artist that they enjoy, and the service responds by playing selections that are musically similar. Users provide feedback on the individual song choices — approval or disapproval — which Pandora takes into account for future selections.”
I use it all the time, when I have a long bought of work to accomplish I get a station going and I take full advantage of the thumbs up, thumbs down. Just now I noticed that when you click the thumbs up button, not only does it remember this and adjust the playlist accordingly, but it leaves a giant thumbs up in the background of the current song tile! So silly, but I loved it and it made me think about the devil in the details pitch I always try to give myself.
Pandora does it, they have all the details and they are loved by their users - over 40,000 new listeners everyday. It is a shame that the music industry is pushing them towards closing their doors soon.. (I can’t imagine that actually happens, its such a great service). I know alot of people are fans of last.fm, but I’ve never been to the site. No reason why not, just fell in love with pandora and stuck.
The devil is in the details and so is the the beauty. Keep goin Pandora, I’m pulling for you!
You can view my profile on pandora here
Shiny Chrome
Posted by Jamie Hutson | Filed under The Future, web 2.0
So I was going to write something about how Google is such an insanely awesome company, how their apps are great and gmail blows all other webmail out of the water, etc, etc. Then I read this post from Fred Wilson which sums up Google much better than I could have done.
Android is going to be very exciting and his point that Apple should have learned it cannot close off everything from the Mac is an excellent point. Steve Jobs just needs to loosen up his turtleneck…
In all seriousness, Chrome is a slick browser. I was knocking it earlier today with some of my friends (Dave you love it), but I’ve come around a bit. It has a way to go to steal me away from Firefox, but its engine is nasty and I see where they are going with things. Into the cloud we go..
UPDATE: Found this link about the end of the operating system: http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/9/google-s-brin-operating-systems-are-toast - worth reading
