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TechCrunch has a great review of Pandora:

Do you love music? Are you the kind of person who’s pissed off because your iPod only holds 80 gigs? If you are, stop reading this, click over to Pandora and request an invitation to their private alpha right now. Then come back and read this. If you don’t agree that this is the coolest application you’ve seen in a long while, re-read this post over and over until you agree, because you are wrong. I am in love with Pandora. It’s like the Internet was invented so that Pandora could be.

I was lucky enough to get a demo of Pandora here at Barcamp. Really cool stuff. I like the concept of using vector space analysis and music traits to find similar music. I’ll have to think about this problem more because I think the technical challenges here can be used to solve problems with weblog indexing.

Update:

Scobelizer has more on Pandora:

Tom sent me an email explaining what it does: “Pandora is a “music discovery service” designed to help you find and enjoy music that you’ll love. It works like this: you give us the name of an artist or song and we instantly create a “station” that plays songs that share musical characteristics with the artist/song you entered. From there you can fine-tune the station to your tastes by giving us feedback on the individual tracks we play. You can make up to 100 unique stations that play all kinds of music – Pop, Rock, Jazz, Electronica, Hip Hop, old, new, big names, and small acts — over 300,000 songs from more than 10,000 artists. Pandora is entirely web-based; you won’t need to install any software to start listening.”