So it’s 2010 and according to the 80′s movies I was obsessed with as a kid we should have hoverboards, flying cars, sexy robots, and violent but thrilling reality tv gameshows.
I can forgive scientists for failing to deliver on the important stuff, but at the very least, they should’ve come up with a really easy way for me to stay up to date on the music I love.
Here’s my problem: I love music, but downloading it is a pain in the ass. Many times:
- It’s not the right version (terrible sounding live album or kung-fu panda in croatian)
- The quality sucks (camcorder rip)
- It’s not tagged properly
- It’s not what you are looking for (self-promoting rappers, porn or just plain weird)
- It’s super slow (maybe that’s just cause I’m in India)
- It’s “illegal”
So in order to satisfy my cravings for new music without the hassle, I buy albums on iTunes. The issue is most of the time I have no idea what to buy. The only way for me to stay up to date is to manually browsing the iTunes store, explicitly ask my friends for recommendations, listen to internet radio and write down the tracks I like or browsing hype machine, pandora and other music sites and just sampling music. That’s is a lot of work and I’m really lazy (which is why I don’t buy a lot of music).
I don’t want to go out and look for music, movies, games, books and apps I want stuff I like to find me.
Here’s what I’m thinking: create a service that lets you “follow” your favorite digital content: music, movies, games, apps, and books and receive notifications any time new related content is released:
- Phase 1 – Music over Twitter:
- Put in your favorite artist, band or genre (similar to iLike or Pandora)
- Decide how and how often you’d like to receive notifications (as soon as it happens, daily, weekly) and how (tweets, @mentions, direct message)
- Link to a summary page which shows an activity feed (new tracks, alubms, remixes, videos, etc…) for the music you have decided you like
- Link to iTunes for affiliate sales
- Phase 2 – Other content: Movies (Actor, Director, Genre), Games (Game, Genre, Studio), Books (Author, Publisher, Genre) and Apps
- Phase 3 – Recommendations: Tie up with services like Netflix and Pandora to start making recommendations on content you may like
- Phase 4 – Other Notifications: Email, SMS, Facebook, etc…
- Phase 5 – Incentivize users to repost content, by sharing revenue
Great Scott! Music Hack Day is coming to SF in a few weeks. Someone please build this, I’d use it.
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I agree. How about making a digital consultant? You feed it a bunch of personal information and then when you want its opinion, it will give it to you. Sort of like the way DoubleClick would follow people's internet behavior and then send you the most suitable pop-up ad; similarly, whenever I purchase something from amazon it says, “people who did that, also did this.” Same for NetFlix, Pandora, and eMagazines. Why not combine all that into on “app” that sticks with you.
Something you can link up to your credit card statement, email, calendar, phone records, gps. So it really knows what you have been doing and can analyze your habits- to the point where I could type in “I want something fun to do now” and it already knows it is a 'school' night (probability of staying out late is low), it knows I ran up a bar tab last night (p= tired is high), and thus it says “a movie you would like, in your neighborhood, starts in 1.5 hrs. The sushi bar near the theater is having a drink special. You can still get home for an early nights rest. PS don't forgot tomorrow is your Mom's birthday and you need to call her bc you haven't in the past 3 weeks.”
sounds a lot like facebook…
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