Comments on: A social itune? http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2005/10/13/a-social-itune/ mind/tech bazar from outer space Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:15:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 By: Riad http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2005/10/13/a-social-itune/#comment-69229 Riad Fri, 14 Oct 2005 19:09:09 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2005/10/13/a-social-itune/#comment-69229 I went to interview people at MusicStrands for the campus newspaper (the headquarters is in my town). It is slightly different from LastFm since they offer 2 levels of recommendations: one is "local" based on the latest songs you played and the other , on their website, is based on your profile. Also the grouping of songs is different. You can use Itunes playlists to make grouping of songs and the system takes this into account. See the story here: http://www.iyne.org/2005/10/14/the-music-you-may-like-recommended-by-you/ I went to interview people at MusicStrands for the campus newspaper (the headquarters is in my town).
It is slightly different from LastFm since they offer 2 levels of recommendations: one is “local” based on the latest songs you played and the other , on their website, is based on your profile.
Also the grouping of songs is different. You can use Itunes playlists to make grouping of songs and the system takes this into account.

See the story here:
http://www.iyne.org/2005/10/14/the-music-you-may-like-recommended-by-you/

]]> By: Wiley Wiggins http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2005/10/13/a-social-itune/#comment-69108 Wiley Wiggins Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:55:21 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2005/10/13/a-social-itune/#comment-69108 last.fm is similar it monitors itunes with a small app and uploads the info to a profile on their page. It's social software based on music tastes with groups and reccomendations and it will create customized streaming radio based on your profile. last.fm is similar it monitors itunes with a small app and uploads the info to a profile on their page. It’s social software based on music tastes with groups and reccomendations and it will create customized streaming radio based on your profile.

]]> By: Paul Tennent http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2005/10/13/a-social-itune/#comment-69045 Paul Tennent Thu, 13 Oct 2005 13:28:21 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2005/10/13/a-social-itune/#comment-69045 Maybe you might have a look at this paper we published in mobile hci 05 - it's about proximity based social sharing of media and other files like RSS feeds on mobile devices. Paul Tennent, Malcolm Hall, Barry Brown, Matthew Chalmers, and Scott Sherwood (2005) Three applications for mobile epidemic algorithms, short paper to appear in proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI05), Salzburg, Austria http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~pt/publications.htm Maybe you might have a look at this paper we published in mobile hci 05 - it’s about proximity based social sharing of media and other files like RSS feeds on mobile devices.

Paul Tennent, Malcolm Hall, Barry Brown, Matthew Chalmers, and Scott Sherwood (2005) Three applications for mobile epidemic algorithms, short paper to appear in proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI05), Salzburg, Austria

http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~pt/publications.htm

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