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...winner this year was the free app Pandora, a streaming-music utility that allows users to create "customized" Internet radio stations. Since the launch of the Pandora app in July, the growth of the music site Pandora.com has "been insane," said Tim Westergren, Pandora's founder. "It doubled our growth rate the day we launched, and it's still growing." Westergren said nearly 2 million people have downloaded the iPhone...
With 18.5 million listeners and 35,000 new sign-ups each day, popular music Web site Pandora.com has the potential to remake the radio landscape, according to Pandora founder Tim Westergren who spoke at the Harvard Law School yesterday afternoon. Fans of the site range from your run- of-the-mill indie-loving college students to their Johnny Mathis-loving grandmas. Using a complex algorithm created by the Music Genome Project, a company Westergren helped found earlier, Pandora takes a listener’s favorite song or artist and recommends similar music based on a series of factors present...
...authorial persona paradoxically combined a true nerd's fascination with science and technology - he even dabbled in computer programming - with an extreme cautiousness about their uses. Time and again his novels feature overeager scientific researchers, greedy for cash and knowledge, who evade regulation and supervision to open one Pandora's Box after another, always with fatal consequences. In his world-view the raw chaos and complexity of nature always lead to unforeseen consequences. "Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise," Crichton wrote in Travels, "a method for taking measurements that describe something - reality - that may not be understood...
...With its new, free software upgrade, Sonos added 15,000 Internet radio stations as well as the music-discovery services Pandora and Last.fm. So now, I can listen to my old favorite radio station, WFUV, in New York, even though I live in California. I think stuff like this will go a long way toward saving old-fashioned radio stations...
...That said, it's easy to see why services such as Last.fm and Pandora are replacing traditional radio stations. Last.fm "scrobbles" the music you listen to, in this case on your Sonos system, and creates recommendations based on that. With Pandora, you search for a favorite artist or song, and the service builds an infinite playlist around it. These services are endlessly entertaining...