There has been lots of great discussion about these two web services and I wanted to share my $0.02. (I don’t want this blog to be about web services - not my interest and there are many sites doing an excellent job covering them. But I do love music and I do love discovering new music - and this blog will touch on those topics from time to time)
You can find some great discussion occuring over at Steve Krause’s blog and on TechCrunch.
From the Pandora website:
Can you help me discover more music that I’ll like? Those questions often evolved into great conversations. Each friend told us their favorite artists and songs, explored the music we suggested, gave us feedback, and we in turn made new suggestions. We created Pandora so that we can have that same kind of conversation with you.
From the Last.FM website
Even if your taste in music is ridiculously eclectic, or just downright ridiculous, you should find matches to people with a similar taste. There are a lot of people here with some very ‘unusual’ listening habits.
Blink
From Publishers Weekly:
Gladwell’s conclusion, after studying how people make instant decisions in a wide range of fields from psychology to police work, is that we can make better instant judgments by training our mind and senses to focus on the most relevant facts—and that less input (as long as it’s the right input) is better than more.
If you carry through the logic that Pandora is Blink (“and… less input (as long as it’s the right input) is better than more†equals Pandora’s experts providing their input and classifying the music) then the equivalent for Last.FM has to be:
The Wisdom of Crowds
From Publishers Weekly:
While our culture generally trusts experts and distrusts the wisdom of the masses, New Yorker business columnist Surowiecki argues that “under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably intelligent, and are often smarter than the smartest people in them.
In this case, I fall into the Wisdom of Crowds… crowd.
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