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Article: Pandora lets users create online radio stations.(Link-Up @ Home)
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- May 1, 2008
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"Oh, no, not that song again!" How many times have you said that when you listen to the radio? Of course, the vast number of stations now broadcasting via the internet has broadened our choices dramatically. We can listen to reggae from Jamaica, Celtic music from Ireland, or electronica from Australia. But chances are that even your favorite station plays a considerable number of tunes that you're tired of or that you never liked in the first place.
Pandora (www.pandora.com) promises a new kind of radio experience. Based on the work of the Music Genome Project, a musician-led initiative that has analyzed the musical qualities of songs by tens of thousands of ...