I don't know about the other guy, but Hadi Partovi might be a significant loss to Microsoft. See this blog written by a Microsoft insider last summer: Hadi Partovi what are you thinking?
If you like the idea of gnomoradio or irate you should take a peek at GarageBand, an mp3 download site for independent music. It uses a collaborative-filtering system to generates charts of the best-rated music in each genre. So you don't need to spend time filtering through as much bad music to hear stuff that you like.
They recently announced deals with Budweiser and Klipsch where the best-rated music is syndicated in the form of top-10 lists or (in the case of Budweiser) radio players. With the size of their music library (including the former MP3.com archive) it is a good system already, whether for musicians or consumers. Definitely something to keep an eye on!
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I don't know about the other guy, but Hadi Partovi might be a significant loss to Microsoft. See this blog written by a Microsoft insider last summer: Hadi Partovi what are you thinking?
They recently announced deals with Budweiser and Klipsch where the best-rated music is syndicated in the form of top-10 lists or (in the case of Budweiser) radio players. With the size of their music library (including the former MP3.com archive ) it is a good system already, whether for musicians or consumers. Definitely something to keep an eye on!