Wednesday, February 18, 2009

MBA/MIS-Homework 1

New Service: http://pandora.com/

Pandora.com provides a free and visual advertising-supported online, at home, on the road music service. Pandora “ is powered by the most comprehensive analysis of music ever understaken, the Music Genome Project: a crazy project started back in early 2000 to capture the complex musical DNA of songs using a large team of highly-trained musicians” (http://blog.pandora.com/faq/).Each subscriber receives services, such as, Pandora on the web, on iPhone, and at home. Pandora.com gives subscriber the opportunity to only listen to the music they prefer, whether it to be a genre, an artist, or an era of music without interruption of advertisement or the music they dislike.
In order to run Pandora properly, subscribers will need a broadband connection, any kind of web browser program, and a Mac or a PC. To sign up for the free service, a valid email address is required as well as some preliminary user information, for example, gender, age, and a United States zip code. Once you become a subscriber to Pandora.com, you can just open Pandora.com from any computer, and verify your account information, then you can create “stations” according to the kind of music you prefer. Then, Pandora will play the music genre or artists similar to the one you prefer continuously without advertisement interruption. Subscriber can also choose to skip songs they do not like, however, there is a limit on the songs they can skip in an hour due to license restriction.
Pandora is a neat website for people who only want to listen to music they like in the office, at home and on the road.

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