Pandora!!!
I have been using My Yahoo as my home page for probably 7 or 8 years now. One of the sections I have in My Yahoo is something they call Daily Picks. Every day this module is updated with 3 interesting, quirky, cool websites. Usually they do a pretty good job and every once in a while they come up with a real winner. That was certainly the case last night as i was checking Yahoo’s daily Picks.
you have to Check it out.
I was having a mind freeze when trying to describe Pandora so here is what they say “Pandoraâ„¢ is the doorway to this vast trove of musical information. With Pandora you can explore to your heart’s content. Just drop the name of one of your favorite songs or artists into Pandora and let the Genome Project go. It will quickly scan its entire world of analyzed music, almost a century of popular recordings - new and old, well known and completely obscure - to find songs with interesting musical similarities to your choice. Then sit back and enjoy as it creates a listening experience full of current and soon-to-be favorite songs for you.”
… and thats pretty much what it does… all through a pretty slick flash interface. You can rate songs, remove songs and create up to a hundred personalized stations…
There is a free ad driven version and a subscription version.
I’m a pretty avid user of Yahoo Launch Cast infact, I am classified as a Fanatic (2,589 total ratings) So the first thing I started thinking was a comparison to between the two. Personally I think Pandora has done to 300,000 songs what I have done to 2,589 unfortunatly Pandora and I have different thoughts about music and I can see this as it plays a station. But I do have the ability to influence the stations I have created in Pandora much as I do in yahoo. I don;t think its quite up to Yahoo Launch cast but is really cool the y way it works and most certainly am going to spend some time with it… Gawd I love technology!