Pandora Goes Social

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1. Jaisen
   

   December 19th, 2006 at 11:29 pm

   Pandora is an awesome service. Takes me back to the days of Audio Galaxy (almost). I hope they continue to be succesfull.

   Jaisen
   Photagious

2. Startups.in/India
   

   December 19th, 2006 at 11:59 pm

   I agree. This is one “web2.0?” service I’ve seen people getting really hooked onto.

3. Techpaulogy
   

   December 20th, 2006 at 12:17 am

   Even in Pandora’s current state, I still like Last.fm’s social capabilities better. And there’s always Pandora.fm if you want the mashup… my real question: when will something like Pandora’s recommendation service get fully integrated with iTunes? And when will iTunes get a subscription steaming music service like Yahoo or Rhapsody?

4. Fashion Industry Ceo
   

   December 20th, 2006 at 12:26 am

   i LOVE pandora….also used last.fm

5. Robert
   

   December 20th, 2006 at 12:52 am

   FYI, Pandora is an RIA built with OpenLaszlo…one of their showcase applications.

6. fredo
   

   December 20th, 2006 at 1:09 am

   Finally…without social features, pandora was not anymore a so web 2.0 application…

7. Mike
   

   December 20th, 2006 at 1:25 am

   Be social. All of all are going social.

   Tech Tutorials: http://www.hotcoding.com

8. PPC Keyword Tool
   

   December 20th, 2006 at 2:37 am

   Pandora is pretty sweet, though I did find another streaming music site which I found to be better at picking your taste in music - slipping my memory right now though…

9. Rich
   

   December 20th, 2006 at 2:39 am

   I have tried this service and it looks useful. However, when I try to register I am required to give a US ZIP code (I am based in the UK). Does anyone know a way around this aside from submitting a fake ZIP code?

10. Benny_A
    

    December 20th, 2006 at 4:55 am

    Social features? Hmmm…well, aside from having a stray friend check out my bookmarked songs/artists for something new to listen to, I couldn’t care too much about them.

    We already have a ton of “social trash” sites for everyone to whore themselves around on =)

    The Pandora guys though, they are in it for the tunes, and the tunes alone. They’ve built a brilliant system that hardly ever lags, almost always plays stuff I wanna hear, and…is…FREE.

    Go ahead, call me a Pandora poster child. I am, after all, wearing their T-Shirt today =)

11. Tim
    

    December 20th, 2006 at 5:02 am

    If you want to plug into a Pandora listener community, check out

    http://pandorastations.crispynews.com

    Thanks!

    Tim (not founder!)

12. Avid Fan
    

    December 20th, 2006 at 5:07 am

    TechCrunch! - I really gotta say that promoting a method to steal music from Pandora is not good! If they don’t make money, this best of breed service is going to disappear and it will be loss for everyone. There are other wrappers that block the ads and such (a $36/year value), but outright ripping the songs is going a little too far don’t cha think!

13. Al
    

    December 20th, 2006 at 5:22 am

    Ugh. Guys, Pandora’s jar is *illegal* on the Pandora service. It violates ToS. This has been blogged about already. Not good to be pimping it.

14. Diego
    

    December 20th, 2006 at 6:02 am

    Rich: Just look for ANY zip code in Google…

    Al: I agree… not good to make a public mention of the illegal thingie…

    I love Pandora, unlike last.fm it isn’t blocked here at work.

15. Adrian Keys
    

    December 20th, 2006 at 6:09 am

    Compete through ReadWriteWeb has recently released some numbers on the explosive growth of social networking phenomenon…Pandora’s new strategy is spot on…but it will have competition from existing (and I can bet) a lot more new players.

    http://www.jollyjo.org

16. Jay
    

    December 20th, 2006 at 6:23 am

    Welcome to the Social Pandora.

17. Jamie
    

    December 20th, 2006 at 6:46 am

    unreal that you would include information in what was otherwise an informative and exciting development by Pandora by including a line that basically says “if you want to illegal download music that pandora offers up for free, use this”.

18. ZenBug
    

    December 20th, 2006 at 6:57 am

    Pandora rocks.

    I’ve used Last.fm extensively, but I’ve noticed that it almost *never* plays songs that are similar to the ones I entered. I found myself skipping tunes left and right.

    Pandora, on the other hand, is correct in finding other music that I like about 95% of the time.

    I read somewhere that this is due to the grouping algorithms is each service. Pandora associates songs based on technical characteristics like mood of music, orchestration, etc., while Last.fm associates them based on users’ tags or something. That adds much more subjectivity. My definition of “Ambient” might be completely different from someone else’s.

    I’ll stick with Pandora.

19. pandorafan
    

    December 20th, 2006 at 7:58 am

    http://www.seeqpod.com/music is a good combination of a few of my favorite music sites

20. Drew Olanoff
    

    December 20th, 2006 at 8:30 am

    The sad thing is, Pandora is not a music sharing service so to take music from it really sucks. They work hard on their DNA type system for music and its an amazing service. Don’t steal from Pandora.

21. Matt_
    

    December 20th, 2006 at 8:56 am

    Wonder when Mike will get the C&D and DCMA notice from Pandoras Tom Conrad 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1

22. Drew Olanoff
    

    December 20th, 2006 at 8:58 am

    Just in case you guys aren’t aware of how Pandora works. The Best Damn Tech Show, Period. has talked to Tim of Pandora a few times, and basically they pay to license the music streams, so any mashup or download of that music costs them directly. I mean there are tons of “file sharing” services out there, Pandora is not one of them. Pandora provides a really great experience to learn about new music.

23. Another Pandora Fan
    

    December 20th, 2006 at 9:00 am

    I have to agree. Pandora’s Jar shouldn’t be linked to as an “add-on” service to Pandora. Everything isn’t free…nor should it be. TC should not advertise products which violate the ToS of any service they feature.

    If web2.0 is about your right to do what you want without compensation for those behind the service…then it’ll only last as long as VC money is available or the VC’s themselves begin to notice..

24. Brandon
    

    December 20th, 2006 at 9:04 am

    Pandora is awesome, I listen to it everyday. I’ve discovered hundreds of new bands and ended up buying a lot of their CD’s. It’s definitely a great model for bands to be found

25. johnbtes
    

    December 20th, 2006 at 9:32 am

    I had never heard of Pandora, and I see no reason why this site should ever be closed on your browser. I will probably just leave the music streaming at all times, plus it has all of the underground music I love so much too.
    Wonderful.
    Much respect to Pandora.

26. gbrvda
    

    December 20th, 2006 at 10:30 am

    Finetune (www.finetune.com) has had the social aspect in the bag for a long time. Much better service than Pandora.

    Looks like between last.fm, pandora, finetune and the rest, there will be a lot of heat in the broadband audio playground. I’d look for some consolidation soon. You can see it happening with Pandora an MSN already.

27. MSN was hacked! see its home page now
    

    December 20th, 2006 at 11:01 am

    gonna try it once… i dont know about your support.

28. Bonyboy
    

    December 20th, 2006 at 11:11 am

    I agree, Pandora’s Jar should be taken out of this post.

29. Emory
    

    December 20th, 2006 at 11:14 am

    I have been using Pandora for a few months now. There is always a plentiful selection of new music for me to discover, even though I listen to a lot of indie and obscure bands.

30. Michael White
    

    December 20th, 2006 at 11:23 am

    Last.fm forever!

31. MadParkcd
    

    December 20th, 2006 at 11:26 am

    Re UK and Zipcodes: Rich, my understanding is that Pandora has only licenses in the US under the communications act that covers Internet Radio. Thus, in countries such as the UK, they’ve got to license content from the labels.

32. Ben H
    

    December 20th, 2006 at 11:45 am

    Pandora Rocks ultimately and now with Social Networking its like BOOM BOOM… Wonderful… It’s been my favorite internet audio http://www.benh.org/techblog/2.....music.html

33. A
    

    December 20th, 2006 at 6:46 pm

    I agree wholeheartedly with the major sentiment above. Why mention Pandora’s Jar when you could have mentioned PandoraFM - the latter begin a legit mashup which has been supported by both Pandora and last.fm?

    Frankly, this is exactly the kind of thing the Digital Restriction Management gurus want. A demonstration of the “necessity” to constrain the barbarian hoardes. Nice going.

34. A
    

    December 20th, 2006 at 6:47 pm

    and apparently i can’t spell, “begin” = “being”.

35. David H. Deans
    

    December 20th, 2006 at 7:03 pm

    Both services give serendipity a helping hand — I have discovered new bands that I probably would never have heard of otherwise. Suggestion engine technology is one of the more promising areas of interactive online media applications.

    DHD
    GeoActive Group USA

36. clay
    

    January 21st, 2007 at 6:18 pm

    Pretty cool that they use the music genome project, but I’ll stick with mytuneslive.com

    Doesn’t have the polish, the corporate backing but still the only site that lets me upload what I want to listen to, and put a flash player wherever I want.

37. sudhanshu
    

    January 22nd, 2007 at 7:54 am

    Here is another client to download songs from Pandora.com
    Just download and install the .NET framework,

    and click and play. No advanced installation, everything handled automatically

    http://stonedmonk.110mb.com/20.....ation.html

38. tobto
    

    February 4th, 2007 at 2:27 am

    cool!

39. ana
    

    February 7th, 2007 at 7:49 am

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