A Mashup of Pandora and Last.fm


Jeremy P. forwarded me this link to a writeup about a mashup of Pandora and Last.fm. at TechCrunch.  As I said to Jeremy .. it just seems *wrong*...  the big strength of last.fm is that they've figured out how to *implicity* measure what you like by watching what you  are playing.. since I just put on the song 'december' by weezer, last.fm can infer that I must like it (at least a little bit) and bump up my preference score.  Now what this mashup is doing is feeding last.fm with what Pandora plays not what I play. After doing this for a while last.fm will have learned what Pandora's preferences are and not mine.  Imagine if every last.fm user was doing this, eventually last.fm's social recommender would have learned what Pandora prefers and will have morphed into yet another Pandora ...


Posted on: Mar 30, 2006

Posted by: plamere

Category: music

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It has a 90 second timer, plus you can click a button to tell it not to submit. Plus if you don't like a song, you can click a button to tell Pandora you don't like it and if you do it before it submits to Last.fm the timer resets on the next song. Last.fm doesn't just make recommendations based on what you listen to, it also has it's own player and plays songs just like Pandora does based upon either tags or what you tell it you like. But still I see what you mean, but some people like the best of both worlds and have already trained Pandora well to play what they like.

Posted by TheGiant on March 31, 2006 at 03:48 PM EST #

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