- AOL and Yahoo play catch up
- Plante explains software versions
- Drew drinks way too much
- YouTube is the Time Magazine Invention of ’06
- Drew drinks some more
- Photo contest winner is………
- Schmidt gets the scoop
and much much more. Check out this week’s Show Notes.
Be sure to watch and/or listen to the Tech show next Monday to hear the winner announced! They’ll get a rockin’ Flock shirt!
This week on the Best Damn Tech Show, Period, brought to you by flock.com:
– Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora.com is in the house!
- Interview with Tim about Pandora
- Plante’s late
- Best Damn News
- Tech Biffo
and much much more!
Tonight, Tim Westergren (founder and CSO of Pandora.com) hung out with the Best Damn Tech Show, Period. and taped next weeks show. I won’t give anything away, but be sure to check out next weeks show on Tuesday. Tim came along with Michele, who also works for Pandora and they were awesome.
After the taping, we went on over to the Upenn bookstore in Philly for a town hall style meeting. There was an awesome turnout, and Tim did a great job talking about the roots of Pandora and the Music Genome project.
GooTube (after), originally uploaded by Mickipedia.This definitely beats Schmidt’s “Zeke the Plumber” costume
Sorry Schmidt.
If you haven’t heard of Pandora, you should check them out. Basically, you go to their site, you put in the names of artists and songs you like and they spit out other musicians and songs you might like. Not totally based on user ratings though, they take the style of music, rhythm, and other things, mix and mash it up, and spit out the results.
It’s hella cool. In Best Damn Tech Land, we’re HUGE music fans. Heck, we do the Roadie Show.
We heard that Pandora was going to be in town at the UPenn (philly) bookstore to do a town hall type meeting. It’s tomorrow (Thursday Nov 2 at 7pm). So naturally we invited them to come sit in on the show and they accepted!!! So next Tuesday, be sure to watch Tim Westergren and Michele of Pandora and BDTSP!!!
Here’s some info on the meeting if you’d like to attend:
Pandora Music Genome Project Town Hall
Share your passion for music with Tim Westergren, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Pandora.com, an online personalized radio service powered by the Music Genome Project. As part of Pandora’s outreach to the listener community, and to further the musical research that fuels the Genome, Tim has been traveling around the US speaking with groups in a series of ‘Town Hall’ meetings including numerous stops on college campuses. Tim will be visiting the Penn Bookstore on November 2nd. The project began in January 2000 with the creation of the Music Genome Project, a comprehensive musical taxonomy comprised of 400 musical dimensions designed to capture a song’s musical ‘DNA’. It allows for the creation of radio ‘stations’ that play music listeners’ love, with very little effort. It is a free, ad-supported service. Since its launch just 10 months ago, Pandora has become the world’s third largest online radio broadcaster, with more than 3.5 million registered listeners. The service has been featured in such publications as the New York Times, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, Rolling Stone, the Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine (2006 Top 50 Website), Wired, National Public Radio and many other news outlets. Come listen to Tim’s presentation, followed by an informal Q&A discussion driven by the particular interests of the audience. These forums, which have been held from Biloxi, MS to New York City, and from Orlando to Seattle, have involved lively discussions about Pandora, online music, and the evolution of digital technology in general. Don’t miss the opportunity to weigh in on this new and exciting phenomenon – plan to be at the Penn Bookstore, Nov. 2 – 7 pm
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