Software Physics

Damn! I like this a lot. Pandora is a streaming music service where you build personalized stations. To build a new station, you pick a song that exemplifies the style of music you want the station to play (e.g., looking for jam?; initialize your station with a Phish or Grateful Dead tune) the service plays your tune then starts to play tunes like that one. As the music plays, you can go in and gives thumbs up/down to songs as they go by. The service adjusts what it plays on the station based on the feedback. The cool thing is that you start out with tunes you know then the service starts playing/recommending stuff you don’t know; solves the “how do I discover new stuff without having to put up with tons of crappy radio noise” problem.

I haven’t been using the service long but I really like what I’ve heard so far!

Check it out at www.pandora.com.