Comments on: Pandora’s lessons http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/07/15/pandoras-lessons/ by Jeff Jarvis Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:15:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Carlos Alonso http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/07/15/pandoras-lessons/#comment-379379 Carlos Alonso Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:39:54 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=3732#comment-379379 So an EveryBlock iPhone app is what you are asking for? So an EveryBlock iPhone app is what you are asking for?

]]> By: Dan Pacheco http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/07/15/pandoras-lessons/#comment-379359 Dan Pacheco Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:52:42 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=3732#comment-379359 The apps that tap into the iPhone's photo capture and location together are very compelling. I could see news organizations, and their users, addictively using a local mobile photo journalism app. When the picture uploads, it shows up on a map based on your location. You could even enter your story. The Facebook and Twitteriffic apps have something close to this, but I don't see them making full use of the geo-location. It would also be fun to be able to view the photo map on the iPhone and then post comments with peoples' photos, which then go to them via SMS. They reply and you get a response. Beyond just being fun, I could see this being a great tool for reporting where the audience and newsroom itself converses with people who are on the scene to get a full story -- both in text and pictures. The app I'm most fascinated by today is Midomi (http://midomi.com). You sing into your iPhone and it gives you results of songs that match what you sang. You can then get the artist info and buy the song via mobile iTunes. Wow! Makes me wonder what else could be done with speech, picture and video recognition (although video will have to wait until the iPhone can capture video). The apps that tap into the iPhone’s photo capture and location together are very compelling. I could see news organizations, and their users, addictively using a local mobile photo journalism app. When the picture uploads, it shows up on a map based on your location. You could even enter your story.

The Facebook and Twitteriffic apps have something close to this, but I don’t see them making full use of the geo-location.

It would also be fun to be able to view the photo map on the iPhone and then post comments with peoples’ photos, which then go to them via SMS. They reply and you get a response. Beyond just being fun, I could see this being a great tool for reporting where the audience and newsroom itself converses with people who are on the scene to get a full story — both in text and pictures.

The app I’m most fascinated by today is Midomi (http://midomi.com). You sing into your iPhone and it gives you results of songs that match what you sang. You can then get the artist info and buy the song via mobile iTunes. Wow! Makes me wonder what else could be done with speech, picture and video recognition (although video will have to wait until the iPhone can capture video).

]]> By: Shawn Levasseur http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/07/15/pandoras-lessons/#comment-379341 Shawn Levasseur Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:53:51 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=3732#comment-379341 I'm partial to AOL Radio myself. (though I think that such audio streams should be part of the iPod core functionality like it is in the iTunes desktop app.) I’m partial to AOL Radio myself.

(though I think that such audio streams should be part of the iPod core functionality like it is in the iTunes desktop app.)

]]> By: confiteor http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/07/15/pandoras-lessons/#comment-379328 confiteor Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:41:06 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=3732#comment-379328 Being outside the us I cannot use pandora. Anyone care to compare it to the last fm app (which strikes me as pretty incredible as well)? What's in pandora's box that makes it better? Being outside the us I cannot use pandora. Anyone care to compare it to the last fm app (which strikes me as pretty incredible as well)? What’s in pandora’s box that makes it better?

]]> By: Tim Oren http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/07/15/pandoras-lessons/#comment-379314 Tim Oren Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:31:42 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=3732#comment-379314 Pandora relies on a mandatory licensing carve-out in US music copyright law that apparently has no Canadian equivalent. Complain to Ottawa, not DC or the Pandora guys. Yelp may have cracked the code for part of what Jeff's talking about. craiglist eats their lunch today; Yelp builds a roadblock in the future. --- Another Tim Pandora relies on a mandatory licensing carve-out in US music copyright law that apparently has no Canadian equivalent. Complain to Ottawa, not DC or the Pandora guys.

Yelp may have cracked the code for part of what Jeff’s talking about. craiglist eats their lunch today; Yelp builds a roadblock in the future.

— Another Tim

]]> By: Tim http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/07/15/pandoras-lessons/#comment-379310 Tim Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:46:26 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=3732#comment-379310 So LAME that Pandora, in any of its forms, is unavailable to Canadians. When, oh when, will we have a truly global market in music? So LAME that Pandora, in any of its forms, is unavailable to Canadians. When, oh when, will we have a truly global market in music?

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