Crap. There goes another good service. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 12:29 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Microsoft buys Pandora > > http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.san&s=51570&; > Nid=25349&p=377665 > > MSN Buys Music Recommendation Company > > Friday, Nov 24, 2006 6:00 AM ET > SEEKING AN EDGE IN THE online radio space, MSN has discreetly brought > in music recommendation engine Pandora to power its service, MSN > Radio. Since its debut last November, Pandora's free recommendation > system--dubbed the Music Genome project--has loads of media coverage > and over 1 million monthly visitors, according to comScore. By > contrast, MSN Radio's monthly visitors dropped 9 percent to 2.5 > million from October 2005 to October 2006. Pandora users type in the > names of bands or songs and instantly begin hearing tracks that the > system considers similar. By rating songs and artists, users can then > refine suggestions. Forty-five Pandora analysts rank 15,000 songs a > month on 400 various characteristics. The co-branding tie-up was first > reported Tuesday on CNet's News.com blog. > >
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