Posted on: July 14, 2005 in Technology, Music
Music, Technology and Recommendation Systems
I stumbled across a great post by Derek Slater. He basically sums up a lot of things I have been thinking about for the last few years, and he does so in an articulate fashion. In particular, I agree with his statement that recommendation systems (whether driven by collaborative community filtering, or other means) are essential to drive people down the long tail. I think this is already an interesting field (see my post on Savage Beast) and will only continue to be more so in the coming years.
Lucas Gonze has a great response to this post that is definitely worth a read as well.