Amazon.com has this feature that I think is pretty cool. If you're looking at a particular CD, it'll tell you: "People who ordered this CD also bought these artists: x, y & z." I've actually used this and listened to some stuff that I wouldn't have heard otherwise. It'd be pretty neat if furthur could say: "People who downloaded bela fleck most often also downloaded yonder mtn string band, leftover salmon, jerry douglas and gordon stone trio." OK maybe this is a pie in the sky feature request. But I was trying to think of some way to use furthur to help people discover new music some other way than just by randomly downloading (or by categorizing by genre and subgenre, which probably would get a luke warm reception at best).
mb >From: peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: evan bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, furthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [Furthur] feature request for searches >Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 15:42:05 -0400 > >I totally agree and have talked to jamie about that. >The serindipity factor I call it. > >One needs to be able to browse as if one were looking at stacks of books in >a >library. >As you head for the grateful dead stack you may pass that quicksilver >messinger service show that you once dreamed about hearing. > >peter > >evan bernstein wrote: > > > this is a request for later down the line, but it occured to me as a >good > > one. > > > > right now, the network is small enough that i'm able to just search for > > "shn" and see what is available. obviously (and thankfully) this won't > > always be true. what i do like about searching for "shn" is that i'm >able > > to see which random bands are available. so it would be nice to be able > > to do a search which just reports what bands there are shows available > > > > >------------ [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] ------------ > The Furthur Development List > Questions, Comments: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://cyberial.com/furthur >-------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------ [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] ------------ The Furthur Development List Questions, Comments: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cyberial.com/furthur --------------------------------------------------
