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>>Fail #4 - obviously commercially inspired music recommendations are obviously lametastic. Is this the best critique of Ping HN could find, a poorly written,
by siglesias 16y ago
>>Fail #4 - obviously commercially inspired music recommendations are obviously lametastic.
Is this the best critique of Ping HN could find, a poorly written, rage-infused, explitive-riddled rant fest that one would expect to be found on digg?
Ping came out 2 bloody days ago! Who would expect that every niche artist would be on this thing not even 48 hours in? I'm very impressed with the mix they got on board pre-launch. Give it a couple of days.
By the way, how many users did Myspace, FB, or Twitter have 2 days in? Let's use our heads here, folks.
- Swizec 16y agoMaybe it's just that they have set up the wrong expectations. I certainly didn't expect that artists would have to be _users_ of Ping. I thought they'd just sort of be there as, you know, artists.
- jokermatt999 16y agoConsidering they've had the whole Genius recommendations in place for quite some time now, their complete failure at recommending relevant artists is pretty bad. I've heard numerous complaints that the recommended artists were nowhere near the user's taste.
- siglesias 16y agoThat's likely because artists who are presently on board Ping represent 1% of 1% of all of the artist data that exist in Genius. If the recommendation engine is giving poor recommendations, it's probably because there is a lack of variety now, and also because it's still learning based on user behavior. Again, nothing that time can't solve.