No more Pandora
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 9th Jan, 2008
All the way back in 2005, I had written about a music streaming service called Pandora. It was a great website that let you create “stations” based on your musical preferences, and would come up with different bands in the same genre and style. Well, yesterday I got an email that Pandora was no longer [...]
Radiohead Rock!
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 9th Oct, 2007
Got this in my mailbox a few minutes ago:
THANK YOU FOR ORDERING IN RAINBOWS. THIS IS AN UPDATE.
YOUR UNIQUE ACTIVATION CODE(S) WILL BE SENT OUT TOMORROW MORNING (UK TIME). THIS WILL TAKE YOU STRAIGHT TO THE DOWNLOAD AREA.
HERE IS SOME INFORMATION ABOUT THE DOWNLOAD:
THE ALBUM WILL COME AS A 48.4MB ZIP FILE CONTAINING 10 [...]
Getting in touch with the fans
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 7th Aug, 2007
I love seeing how different niche sites have grown, adopted a particular segment of target customers on the web and elevated them to a new level. You can see this happening in a number of different industries: doctors, architects, even dog-walkers. It’s been a long time since the Web was just the domain of techies.
The [...]
Calling music lovers everywhere
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 21st Nov, 2005
If you’re a music lover, you should check out Pandora.com. It’s the fruit of the Music Genome Project which has been cataloguing music for the last 5 years, and grouping the works of different artists based on it’s musical “genes”; which a gene being anything that affects the identity of a song, be it harmony, [...]
