Music Profiles with Last.fm

Posted by Doug Fri, 04 Nov 2005 09:43:34 GMT

Last.fm: Social Music RevolutionLast.fm is a cool web site that allows you to build a music profile. It then uses this profile to do a lot of different things. It can recommend new music, find groups of people with the same tastes, and even let you listen to a custom playlist. It’s a really impressive service.

You build the profile by installing a plugin for your normal mp3 player. It then uploads what you’re actually playing. By collecting this information it can get an accurate picture of all the music you listen to without any real manual data entry.

They want like 300 songs before they’ll start making recommendations. At the rate I go, that will be a few days. I’m anxious to see how well the profiling and recommendations work.

If you want to see what I’m listening to, I’ve added a list over on the side of my most recent tracks. You can also see more at my user page on last.fm.

UPDATED: Yes, Rich, I should definitely give props to you for pointing me towards last.fm. Rich Campoamor is a fellow photographer that lives in my same suburb of Cincinnati. It really is pretty amazing that we’re both in Kings Mills

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New Typo Planet

Posted by Doug Tue, 01 Nov 2005 18:50:34 GMT

Adam Greenfield of Site5 has setup Planet Typo to aggregate blogs of Typo. It’s running the newly released rails planet. If you have any suggestions for who’s blog should be included, send them to admin@planettypo.com.

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New Satellite Imagery from Google Maps

Posted by Doug Wed, 07 Sep 2005 00:45:22 GMT

Riverwood Trail Google has updated it’s satellite imagery for Cincinnati. For the longest time it had totally awful imagery for Cinci. I just found out tonight that it’s been updated. I can view my neighborhood at the highest resolution!

That’s the Little Miami River just south of us. The woods along the river make for very good hiking. We’re about a 5 to 10 minute walk to the river itself. Just to the West of us is the local High School. We can hear the band play at their Friday night football games. If you scroll a little further South West, you can see Paramount’s Kings Island.

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