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With all of these killer music apps, I really wish their was a way to aggregate all my music attention into one place so I could store it, view it, share it, and plug it into other web services like this: http://www.allcrazystyle.com/. Posted by:
That is exactly what is missing. I need a music attention aggregator. Last.fm comes the closest to do that for me, but the explosion of cool music web services is leaving last.fm in the dust. I need something akin to Netvibes for music.
The problem: How to aggregate information in a sea of noise and sites that will die (music is one type of information)
The solution: The Meta Portal
How does it work?: Allow users to create/store/sort on site, allow API's to do anything and make it mashable with anything (but prewrite mashes and/or scrapes to work with all the major sites initially)
Long Term: Create a next generation portal but given users access to the greater internet rather than what is stored on one site or aggregator
Long Term Problem: The site misses the boat on several systems that should be included
The solution: get dedicated users or this concept will die
The importance: Too much noise these days, too much stuff, I'm in the process of starting a new blog and i'm trying to figure out what to do with it, information is in way too many places and I get dizzy trying to figure it out ... i need a single dashboard - probably built around my inbox / desktop ...
How to bring it all together:
first bring together content (music, video, text, animation etc...)
a) Networking is around your inbox and the crux of a dashboard
b) supported by metasearch (using predictive measures)
c) Open Portal
Posted by: Richie Hecker | November 22, 2006 at 01:55 AM
Erm... check out my project at http://www.sleevenotez.com. A kind of continuos partial attention dashboard / aggregator for digital music.
Posted by: mark | November 22, 2006 at 07:22 AM
Fred:
Did you noticed that last.fm now has events for concert? It is nice as you can see who will be attending the shows similar to the other sites but with the advantage that you can see everyone's listening habits. Last.fm seems to be adapting quickly. I think a little more interactivity would be better, but they've really listened to its fan base of late. It still is buggy and there is a debate on whether they work those out or add features. As everything is moving so quickly I think you are right, if they stop to perfect what they have they'll be left in the dust.
Anyways, check it out if you haven't.
Posted by: ted | November 22, 2006 at 10:57 AM
Fred, I share the same frustration. For me the music experience is all around going to shows. So here's my shameless plug - we just launched highnote, a music community focused on concerts. We're basically doing collaborative filtering around concerts and trying to build up lots of data to support it by importing itunes libraries.
Its still very new and there's lots to be done - please let us know what you think!
Posted by: Jim Payne | November 22, 2006 at 12:48 PM