super nice, super simple, flash-based interface
>
Now that's an unusual combination of words!
I agree. I am normally very down on Flash -- this is one of the few
times I've ever seen it used in a way that improves on the user
experience one would have without it. Compare and contrast with, say,
Launchcast on music.yahoo.com -- a big mess of a site.
Someone at Pandora thought about the UI a bit. I'm not aware of any
other streaming music service that lets you simply *type in* an artist
or song name to tell it, hey, I like stuff by this guy or this band, or
I particularly like this song. So obvious in retrospect, and yet I don't
recall ever seeing or using anything quite so simple and direct.
So simply as a user interface geek, I was quite impressed.
Interesting that Yahoo has chosen Flash for their new maps site rather
than AJAX:
http://maps.yahoo.com/beta/
Similar to maps.google.com in many ways, but there may be UI issues that
are hard to get around with a pure AJAX-based solution that Flash lets
you handle. (I don't know enough myself to say one way or the other;
both sites are smooth and easy to use. Perhaps Yahoo felt that AJAX was
fine as long as everyone is using a recent browser but that Flash
provides a stable and fairly ubiquitous platform regardless?)
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