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Music Discovery – Hot Or Not?

Posted on 30. May, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

Are you a Last.fm addict? Does Pandora suck? Do you want to be in charge of your music discovery or should Charts do the job for you?

Music Discovery is a hot topic. Here’s a selection of some recent interesting articles:

Slacker vs Pandora -Bob Lefsetz - Fine music lovers as Lefsetz hit a wall with Pandora’s “dummy” recommendations. Slacker fine-tuning features seem a better fit for this sophisticated audience. Nice read!

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Weekly Digest on the Music Industry – May 2, 2009

Posted on 03. May, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

BREAKING NEWS

A week dense of social networks ‘ announcements

FACEBOOK COLONIZATION

April 28th is a date to remember. Facebook launched the Open Stream API: it’s the start of the Facebook experience extending beyond the Facebook walls. Now any developer can create new applications incorporating the real-time stream.

One of the first apps to take advantage of this new API is Seesmic Desktop.

Another example is a demo of Silverlight+ Facebook Stream, that has wowed the lucky Techcrunch viewers: Microsoft Shows Off The Power Of Facebook’s New APIs

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