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		<title>Opening the Pandora&#8217;s Box</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2005 07:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Cheng</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another cool thing I saw at BarCamp was a demo of Pandora. Basically, they got a bunch of professional musicians in and categorized their extensive library in a very genetic fashion (hence, the Music Genome Project) which they then used to create Pandora, a music discovery service. Imagine a radio station where you go &#8220;I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Another cool thing I saw at <a href="http://barcamp.org">BarCamp</a> was a demo of <a title="Pandora" href="http://www.pandora.com">Pandora</a>. Basically, they got a bunch of professional musicians in and categorized their extensive library in a very genetic fashion (hence, the Music Genome Project) which they then used to create Pandora, a music discovery service.</p>
<p>Imagine a radio station where you go &#8220;I think this radio station will have music like John Mayer and Jack Johnson&#8221;. It will start playing songs for you based on these patterns, but not based on any kind of &#8220;genre&#8221; as we know it, but by the music itself. Their favourite example is that you could create on on Indigo Girls and a Metallica track may (and apparently does) show up simply because Metallica has this one song that has musical properties similar to most Indigo Girls music.</p>
<p>So far, I&#8217;ve been impressed with both the form and the function. If you want a free trial, I have a few invitations still. When they release, it&#8217;ll be $30/year which I think it absolutely worth it but right now, it&#8217;s a free trial with invites. Shoot me an email.</p>
<p>__Update__: They have now launched so trial period is over. You can still try it out for 10hrs for free I think, and I can share a station out but I don&#8217;t know whether you can create your own station if I do that. If you try it, make sure you play around and try adding new radio stations, refining the music, etc.</p>
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