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Entries in Personalization (35)

Aggrega

Aggrega allows users to create your own music video channels based on artists and genres you like. They provide recommendations and you can vote on them to refine your recommendations. You can then share your video channel on your website or blog.




VirbTunes

VirbTunes is a software plugin for iTunes that tracks your song plays and sends the data to Virb.com. By sending this iTunes data to Virb, you are able to display your Recent Songs, Top Artists, Top Songs and Top Albums in your Virb profile. They also will be using the data to help you find your favorite artists on Virb.com, let you know when they are playing nearby, recommend new music based on your tastes, and more.

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Upto11

Upto11 helps music fans discover great new music that is relevant to the way they listen to and collect music. The way that we do this is to “poll the audience” and enable like-minded music fans to help each other find great new music to listen to.

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Twones

Twones is an online matching platform where people meet people though their music taste. The Twones application software uploads a users playlist to the Twones database. At Twones.com you can view other users tunes and see with who you match by music taste. You can connect with their connections, read their profiles and make new friends.

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Soundflavor

Soundflavor focuses on providing music search and recommendation services to both music professionals and music consumers. They have a variety of offerings including: Soundflavor DJ, a personal DJ for iTunes; Soundflavor.com, the online community for sharing and discovering playlists; and PlayStrips, a playlist for MySpace, blogs and websites.

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Shazam

Shazam’s world leading music recognition technology lets you use your mobile to recognize the stuff you don’t, and then go on to shazam.com to manage your discoveries, explore the music universe, publish your own reviews, and find out about other members.

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Scouta

Scouta provides personal recommendations to suit your interests and tastes. The more you add or rate, the smarter Scouta gets. And with every new release, and every new member, it just gets smarter. As well as getting to know you, Scouta helps you find and get to know people that share the same interests.

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Rate Your Music

Rate Your Music is an international metadata database where musical albums, EPs, singles, videos and bootlegs are added, rated, and reviewed by users. This data is used to generate automatic music recommendations for users, create lists of compatible users, and to create lists of top-rated music albums.

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Qloud

Qloud provides player plug-in software that helps you organize your own library better. So you’ll be able to find the right song at the right time. Through the plug-ins, Qloud aggregates the music habits and thoughts of a community of users. The on-line service then allows you to search through that community’s collective intelligence.

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MyStrands

MyStrands develops technologies to better understand people’s taste and help them discover things they like and didn’t know about. MyStrands has created a social recommender engine that is able to provide real-time recommendations of products and services through computers, mobile phones and other Internet-connected devices.

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Musio

Muiso is made up of two parts - the website at muiso.com and the desktop companion software. The companion software provides interesting things like artist news, album reviews and thumbnails, similar artists and tracks, people near you who love the same music, personalized recommendations - don’t spend hours listening to bad music, local talent, lots of statistics, social networking fun, and so much more.

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Idio

Idiomag is a personalised digital magazine that matches content with the interests of the individual. Through a unique tagging system, idiomag aggregates hand-picked rich media content and delivers a unique interactive magazine to each reader. The content becomes increasingly relevant as readers rate the content they view.

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Goombah

Goombah is a free desktop application that works with the iTunes Music Player to analyze each user’s music preferences based on listening behavior. Goombah uses this information to create a unique set of matching members whose musical tastes are most closely aligned with those of the user. Goombah then makes recommendations for new music based on the user’s and matching members’ favorites.

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Slacker

Slacker provides “Personal Radio,” which enables users to customize their own radio stations and listen to them wherever they happen to be. The service offers Wi-Fi and satellite music distribution, as well as DJ intelligence embedded in portable players. Slacker users can play highly personalized, continuously refreshed radio stations everywhere they go.

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Pandora

With Pandora you can explore a vast trove of music to your heart’s content. Just drop the name of one of your favorite songs or artists into Pandora and it will quickly scan its entire world of analyzed music, almost a century of popular recordings - new and old, well known and completely obscure - to find songs with interesting musical similarities to your choice. Then sit back and enjoy as it creates a listening experience full of current and soon-to-be favorite songs for you. You can create as many “stations” as you want. And you can even refine them. If it’s not quite right you can tell it so and it will get better for you.

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