I don’t know if this thing actually works, whether it will become the next big thing, or whether it is simply just another load of hype. It certainly looks interesting and do-able. What I do know is that this is the kind of thing we need here in Europe, and much, much more of it. I also know that half of these people are working just round the corner from me, here on the outskirts of Barcelona.
A Spanish Internet start-up that tracks how people listen to music on computers and other devices hopes to profit from enhancing the success of the online music business, its chairman said on Tuesday.
MusicStrands aims to grow by using its exclusive new technology to delve into listeners’ computers, mobile phones or i-Pods to help determine their preferences, not just what they purchase, and make recommendations. “You can have fairly crude forms of recommendation technology, which is just if someone picks A then you recommend B,” Chairman Derek Reisfield told Reuters. “We are going to the next level. We can personalize the recommendation.
Whilst we are on internet topics, this is what I am anxiously waiting for, cheap mobile broadband, and whilst we are on Spain, this promises to be hilarious.