Collaborative Media- September 13, 2005 I've just been looking at a service called Last.fm which uses collaborative filtering techniques to create personalised radio. I find two things about this really exciting. Firstly, unlike most collaborative filtering systems, this service uses a plugin to your media jukebox, that tracks what you are listening to. You don't have to do anything to teach it what music you like, apart from listening to it. From this, it creates a profile of your tastes and compares it to other people with similar..http://www.gilesblackburn.co.uk/2005/09/collaborative-media.html HMV and Virgin launch new digital downloads services- September 5, 2005 So things in the music downloads space in the UK are hotting up. Both HMV and Virgin have overhauled their music downloads services and have re-launched them within 3 days of each other. I've tried both of them, and from what I've seen so far, they are comparable in functionality to Napster but with greater depth in their UK catalogue. Both companies have taken the same approach as Napster, Real and Apple by developing their own jukebox application. This means that you have to go through a...http://www.gilesblackburn.co.uk/2005/09/hmv-and-virgin-launch-new-digital.html iTunes mobile phones and Apple's business model.- September 1, 2005 There have been quite a few stories recently linking O2 with the Motorola iTunes compatible phones. Rumour has it that O2 will start to sell these phones in the UK within a couple of weeks. It is vital for Apple to get into the music phone market before someone else comes up with a mobile phone based music service that supercedes the iPod.The most interesting thing about this is the deal they have done with Motorola. They have placed restrictions on the number of tracks that can be downloaded...http://www.gilesblackburn.co.uk/2005/09/itunes-mobile-phones-and-apples.html |