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Because when I'm tired of looking at the iTunes Top 10/100 list and I want new music I tweet, "Any new music recommendations? I need something new!" Now I follo

by mcgraw 16y ago

Because when I'm tired of looking at the iTunes Top 10/100 list and I want new music I tweet, "Any new music recommendations? I need something new!" Now I follow quite a few people that I follow on Twitter and can immediately see what they are enjoying. I would love to see this migrate into applications as well. It's a social network for products. Help me find the good stuff in an oversaturated world.

dafalcon 16y ago
Definitely need Ping for apps. The genius recommendation engine is a start, but I've already gone through those and got what I want and now there's nothing new. Also, it only tells me about categories of apps that I already know I like and will use, such as photography apps and games. What if there's a whole new category of apps that I would find useful? Ping would be great for me to find those new categories.
protomyth 16y ago
> It's a social network for products. Help me find the good stuff in an oversaturated world. more like gdgt than facebook?
Qz 16y ago
Or you could just use pandora to find and listen to full songs of new music for free...
- mcgraw 16y ago
  Pandora is a completely different use case. Users do not mind listening to random stuff from a selection of artists in a very controlled experience. Finally, Pandora is not free if you listen in > 40 hours per month ($36/yr).
  - Qz 16y ago
    I listen to Pandora a lot and I've only hit the 40 hour limit twice, in which case you can also just pay 99 cents. So it's anywhere from $0 to $12 per year, $36 is to get rid of the ads (which aren't too obnoxious either).
jmtulloss 16y ago
<shameless plug> Try rdio. It lets you follow your twitter friends, facebook friends, and others, and you don't need to pay $10 for the music you find. Works with your iPhone too ;). </shameless plug>
chrischen 16y ago
I too will shamelessly plug my site (yet again). Try out http://like.fm http://like.fm. Still very, very new and I'm only plugging it because.. well.. lots of press about Ping right now. You can follow blogs as well as people, and you can embed your profile in Facebook. (It's also free, and works across iTunes, Winamp, Pandora, and YouTube).
- jamesbritt 16y ago
  "iTunes, Winamp, Pandora, and YouTube" Any love for Amarok? (Also, why the need to ask for gender?)
  - chrischen 16y ago
    Yea somebody requested Amarok today. I'm going to start that soon. I have to setup a linux desktop first though in order to test it (if any Last.fm client developers are reading this, Like.fm uses an identical scrobbling API. You can email me at chris@like.fm if you'd like to help). Do you think the gender is intrusive? At the moment I don't really do anything with gender except personalize pronouns (he/she) in emails. I know it seems a bit out of place... I guess I can make it optional. However I'm planning to do stats and analytics and gender would be useful in the future (like what girls listen to vs what boys listen to, etc).
    - bmelton 16y ago
      I say leave it there. It's innocuous enough, and it'll be valuable demographic data later on. If you stop asking for it now, and then need to start later then people will be suspicious, and you'll have holes in the data from when you didn't ask. Of course, with all user submitted input, don't ever assume it to be right. ;-)
    - jamesbritt 16y ago
      "(if any Last.fm client developers are reading this, Like.fm uses an identical scrobbling API. You can email me at chris@like.fm if you'd like to help)." Hmm. Can I just tell (if possible) amarok to use a Like.fm URL in place of last.fm? Also, the gender thing is not a big deal, but feels like a big sign saying "We're going to use your data for marketing purposes". If you think it actually adds to the quality of the user's experience (via some analytics and such), then that's a good thing. But my initial reaction is that all a site needs is a unique way to identify me; past a name and password, everything else I'm made to enter isn't done for for my benefit. Maybe I've been thinking about form usability too much lately for my own sites ...

by mcgraw 16y ago

dafalcon 16y ago

Definitely need Ping for apps. The genius recommendation engine is a start, but I've already gone through those and got what I want and now there's nothing new. Also, it only tells me about categories of apps that I already know I like and will use, such as photography apps and games. What if there's a whole new category of apps that I would find useful? Ping would be great for me to find those new categories.

protomyth 16y ago

> It's a social network for products. Help me find the good stuff in an oversaturated world. more like gdgt than facebook?

Qz 16y ago

Or you could just use pandora to find and listen to full songs of new music for free...

mcgraw 16y ago
Pandora is a completely different use case. Users do not mind listening to random stuff from a selection of artists in a very controlled experience. Finally, Pandora is not free if you listen in > 40 hours per month ($36/yr).
- Qz 16y ago
  I listen to Pandora a lot and I've only hit the 40 hour limit twice, in which case you can also just pay 99 cents. So it's anywhere from $0 to $12 per year, $36 is to get rid of the ads (which aren't too obnoxious either).

jmtulloss 16y ago

<shameless plug> Try rdio. It lets you follow your twitter friends, facebook friends, and others, and you don't need to pay $10 for the music you find. Works with your iPhone too ;). </shameless plug>

chrischen 16y ago

I too will shamelessly plug my site (yet again). Try out http://like.fm http://like.fm. Still very, very new and I'm only plugging it because.. well.. lots of press about Ping right now. You can follow blogs as well as people, and you can embed your profile in Facebook. (It's also free, and works across iTunes, Winamp, Pandora, and YouTube).

jamesbritt 16y ago
"iTunes, Winamp, Pandora, and YouTube" Any love for Amarok? (Also, why the need to ask for gender?)
- chrischen 16y ago
  Yea somebody requested Amarok today. I'm going to start that soon. I have to setup a linux desktop first though in order to test it (if any Last.fm client developers are reading this, Like.fm uses an identical scrobbling API. You can email me at chris@like.fm if you'd like to help). Do you think the gender is intrusive? At the moment I don't really do anything with gender except personalize pronouns (he/she) in emails. I know it seems a bit out of place... I guess I can make it optional. However I'm planning to do stats and analytics and gender would be useful in the future (like what girls listen to vs what boys listen to, etc).
  - bmelton 16y ago
    I say leave it there. It's innocuous enough, and it'll be valuable demographic data later on. If you stop asking for it now, and then need to start later then people will be suspicious, and you'll have holes in the data from when you didn't ask. Of course, with all user submitted input, don't ever assume it to be right. ;-)
  - jamesbritt 16y ago
    "(if any Last.fm client developers are reading this, Like.fm uses an identical scrobbling API. You can email me at chris@like.fm if you'd like to help)." Hmm. Can I just tell (if possible) amarok to use a Like.fm URL in place of last.fm? Also, the gender thing is not a big deal, but feels like a big sign saying "We're going to use your data for marketing purposes". If you think it actually adds to the quality of the user's experience (via some analytics and such), then that's a good thing. But my initial reaction is that all a site needs is a unique way to identify me; past a name and password, everything else I'm made to enter isn't done for for my benefit. Maybe I've been thinking about form usability too much lately for my own sites ...