Pocket Hipster is some new app you can download on you iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, etc..., I just read about that allows you to send music into a virtual "hipster" who critiques your current library of music and then reccommends a grip of cool new music to you. The article I checked out is at PR Newswire.
Two companies, The Echo Nest and We Are Hunted, teamed up to make this new app available which is pretty cool. Definitely check out those two companies sites, they are fun to play around with and have tons of music and apps to download if interested. Actually those two websites are a good way to explore music and find something new without the app they created.
So this is pretty cool for everyone who is looking for new music or just more of the same music. I do not know exactly how they get their music other than what they call data mining but it seems like they are doing a descent job.
Ha. This looks pretty cool. I think the idea of allowing a large amount of people to download something associated with being "hipster" is incredibly ironic.
ReplyDeleteThat said, on the iTunes page, the comments say it really doesn't do anything.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pocket-hipster/id416751031?mt=8
Do you think the "music suggestion" industry has become saturated? I mean, we have Pandora, Grooveshark, Soundcloud, ThisOneNext, Soundflavor, Tastekid, and the list goes on and on. The only ways I see this ending are if there is an suggestion engine to end all suggestion engine, or if economics eventually just weed out the non-competitors.
Something I'm very interested in that might be the topic of a future post is what methods are used for music suggestion. I know that Pandora uses the Music Genome Project (below), but what other ones are there? Very innovative blog topic, though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Genome_Project
So I knew what Pandora was, but never knew how it exactly worked. After reading that Wikipedia article I definitely am impressed with the level of technology Pandora actually uses.
ReplyDeleteTo piggyback off of Teddy's comment I found an article about Microsoft Ventura (http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/microsoft-ventura-project-to-bring-multimedia-discovery/). No one really knows what Ventura will exactly be like; however, most indications are leaning towards it being a competitor to Pandora. It's also said to be the successor of Zune's social network that didn't take off very well.
Do you guys think Microsoft can be the 'one' that weeds out the non-competitors as Teddy mentioned?? Who knows?! It can be as successful as the Xbox or absolute crap like the Windows Mobile OS!