[Gllug] Re: Social networking - what's the point

[Pooly]

2006/8/1, Craig Millar <gllug at craigmillar.org>:
> On 01/08/06 10:44 +0100, Jason Clifford wrote:
> > The potential of social network is so much greater but I don't think
> > anyone has ever actually delivered on much, if any, of the actual
> > potential.
>
> I think last.fm has made a decent fist of it with their audioscrobbling
> engine. I've been recommended some decent music as a result of my own
> submissions. I just ignore the "Friend Requests" bs and let the figures do
> the talking. Praps we should start a gllug group so we can find out just how
> uncool we are!

That's where I disagree, last.fm is only good to provide statistics.
Recommendations are severly biased if you don't listen to mainstream
music. Twisting their recommendation is fairly easy ( e.g. try
listening to classical _and_ reggae, if you choose wisely they'll
recommend some classical composer on the reggae artists page). And for
well-known artist, it's always the same artists to be recommended...

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