By Guest Contributor – Richa Singh
When Albert Einstien was asked on what got him to introduce the theory of relativity to the world he said “It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.”
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. Its said there’s a boundary line to music. But with the collaboration of Pandora and Facebook , the boundary is indefinite. Pandora is the perfect destination for anyone who wants to listen to Internet radio catered to their interests and their particular mood at the time. Its a web 2.0 radio station based on radio genome project. By analyzing the essence of music and capturing aspects such as melody, harmony, rhythm, arrangement and lyrics among other musical identities, Pandora and the Music Genome Project are able to predict musical interests based on a sample selection. Pandora assembles literally hundreds of musical attributes or “genes” into a very large Music Genome.
The leading online radio service and world’s biggest social network have now come together which solidify both companies’ dominance, while offering music fans a way to share music with each other that appears to lack any significant downside. The upside for Pandora users is significant, due to the ways in which it broadcasts their taste, helps them discover and enjoy new music through their friends. There are countless ways to do these exact same things elsewhere on the web, and users have already been able to share Pandora stations with friends. But Pandora + Facebook = such an easy math that even the busy or excessively lazy can integrate it into their lives.
Making the listening experience more social was also employed by Pandora, but who would want to make to create a whole set of friends manually on Pandora? Facebook is the social networking king and rules the kingdom defined by web 2.0, so it makes more sense to grab people’s friends by coming into alliance with the ruler.
With the “open social graph” unveiling and the sprinkling of “like” button across the web, Pandora is able to increase its user space, capture its user’s habits and hence assemble more music for the music lovers. Facebook has always focused on building ways for people to connect with each other and share information with their friends. People are shaping on how their information moves through their connections. This collaboration and introduction of “open social graph” puts people at the center of the web. And now, users get the power to create a smarter, personalized web that gets better with every action taken.
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