Pandora Internet Radio

Jasper introduced me to the Pandora Music Genome Project today. A music recommendation project that also does streaming. It asks you for artists that you like then plays you music with similiar properties, then asking you to rate them. This system is perhaps the best implementation of the old MIT music recommendation project Ringo (for those who are too young back them, it was done in the 90s).

For those who are interested in its technicals, these systems are classified as recommendation agents (in the field of Intelligent Agents). They work by calculating the k-nearest neighbours in the hypothesis space. For a more detailed look at the implementations, search for papers by Pattie Maes of the MIT Media labs.

I recommend you guys all try it! It's pretty good in its predictions!