NathanWBurke.com » media discovery http://nathanwburke.com Startups, Marketing, Opinions Fri, 04 May 2012 19:23:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Find New Music With Cherrypeel.com http://nathanwburke.com/2008/10/22/find-new-music-with-cherrypeelcom/ http://nathanwburke.com/2008/10/22/find-new-music-with-cherrypeelcom/#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:04:59 +0000 nathan http://nathanwburke.com/?p=385


Cherrypeel reminds me of a lot of other music discovery sites, but it has a few features that set it apart. Likethesixtyone.com, the site’s home page recommends new music based on popularity.

But where thesixtyone.com is basically a multiplayer game assigning points to users based on which songs they vote for, cherrypeel uses the digg.com/reddit.com system of upvotes and karma to reward users for participation. I think the best description I’ve seen is “cherrypeel is reddit for music”.

I’ve been using thesixtyone.com for a while now, and really like it, but have one big problem with it: when I’m listening to the newest music available, I cannot filter by genre. So if I want to hear the newest of the new, I can’t just play new music from genres I care about.

Well, I can do that on cherrypeel.

It’s weird to me. I want to dislike cherrypeel based on how much I like thesixtyone, but I just can’t do it. The UI is incredibly clean and simple, and it just works.

I like it. A lot.

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I’ve been a real slacker lately over at the matchmine blog, so today I posted an entry entitled “What Is Media Discovery?” Here’s a short snippet of it. Check out the rest on the matchmine blog.

After watching the presentations at TechCrunch50 and DEMOfall 2008, I was surprised at how often I heard the term “discovery” used to describe how companies plan to connect users with the media they are looking for. That’s a good thing.

A little over a year ago when matchmine launched at DEMOfall 2007, we were trying to decide how to describe what we do. We didn’t want to say “we’re a recommendation engine”, as that’s only a small part of what we do. Also, when people hear “recommendations” they think of Amazon.com-like “people that bought this also bought this other item” suggestions. So we decided to use the term “discovery.”

Telling people that we were in the discovery game was almost always met with a confused look and a question of “what’s that?” That’s a great question. And it’s a question that I’m going to try to answer here…..and without marketing buzzwords and ambiguous concepts. Note that I said I’d try.

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