May 21, 2004
Collaborative Filtering Comes To Independent Music Makers: Find What You Like Through Other People Tastes With inDiscover
"inDiscover is a service designed to help bring independent music to new listeners. We appeal to both musicians and people interested in hearing fresh new music, by recommending songs based on our user's tastes. Songs are provided by independent artists from around the world in mp3 format (the artists themselves are responsible for hosting the mp3s). By using a technique called collaborative filtering, we are able to predict how much a given user would like a specific song based on how they have previously rated other songs. After a user rates a song, they are presented with 2 playlists; one of songs that we KNOW that they like, and one of songs we THINK they will like.
By having users rate along different categories (eg. how well would a song be to listen to while working out?) we are able to compose playlists for each of those categories (eg. a playlist of songs we think you would like to workout to)."
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Making Sense Of New Technologies And Media: An Opinionated Digest by George Siemens - June 21 08
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June 11, 2008
Social Design: What Is It? What Should You Use It For?
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June 6, 2008
Ebooks, The Amazon Kindle And The Future Of The Book Publishing Industry
Are ebooks going to go mainstream with Amazon becoming a de facto distribution monopoly? Or is a marketplace characterized by many different players and options looming still on the horizon?
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Should book publishers think carefully before jumping on the Kindle bandwagon about who should be... read more
June 4, 2008
MasterNewMedia Web Traffic Stats, Authority, Audience Metrics: May 2008
Showing publicly your web traffic data, audience demographics and your content blockbuster is a great way to show your relative authority, credibility and progress to all those that may be potentially interested: advertisers, sponsors, fans, competitors, potential partners.
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