Pandora Town Hall meeting in Providence!
Posted by Jim
Pandora is a music discovery engine that builds its suggestions on data from the Music Genome Project. Tim Westergren, Chief Strategy Officer and Founder of Pandora will be at the Columbus Theater in Providence on Wednesday, October 4th at 7 pm for an informal town-hall meeting.
Among the questions we hope to tackle:
-How is technology changing the nature of radio?
-How important are community and peers when it comes to discovering music online? What’s the best way to foster community?
-Can services like Pandora help create a larger middle class of artists who aren’t superstars, but have enough of an audience to support themselves through their music? Do music lovers want more music discovery?
September 22nd, 2006 23:16
[...] The good news on the music front is that I’m kind of liking Pandora, which is a recommendation engine driven sorta internet radio site that has definitely perfected their “getting started” use case. One thing that is subtly impressive is that when you enter the first artist you like, it immediately starts playing a great song by that artist. It is at least good at recommending good songs by the artist. I’m not sure if it is good at recommending new artists yet. Regardless, they’re giving a talk next Wednesday in Providence. I might go, but I kind of feel like showing up to a talk about an online music recommendation service when I can’t manage to get out of the house to see my old friends play in my favorite bands would just be the final nail in the lameness coffin. [...]
September 24th, 2006 22:41
thanks a lot for the post, Jim. Much appreciated. Really looking forward to visiting Providence.
TuttleSVC – I guarantee it’ll be worth. Far from lameness, you’ll be a beacon of hipness for being so on top of the latest tech trends. :)
Hope to see you there. Tim (Founder)