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On his way, but not quite there. 1. It has to be reliable. 2. This is a means to publish a playlist, not rank plays. 3. A web service interface is a good thing. Unless I missed something. But it is a good start. Way to go, Lucas. Let's add your URI to the news story comments. That's the way the web works. Nothing is more powerful than a web page with an edit button. len From: Bill de hOra [mailto:bill@d...] Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > http://news.com.com/5208-1027-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=8277&messageID=58279 > &start=-194 > > Here's an opportunity for a service developer looking for a revenue stream. > > That URI is to a reply to a cnet news.com article about Sony/BMG settlement > (caught in yet another payola scam). I won't dispute that new media means > better music; it means more music is available through new media. That's > a red herring. This guy claims payola is a necessary means to promote > music because radio program directors don't have enough time to survey. > They don't. True statement. But his conclusion doesn't follow. In > an age of web services, Windoze players that automatically rate tunes > (with very weird results sometimes but that is a different topic), and > aggregators and podcasts, streams, etc., it seems to me that a service > for rating plays is a pretty lucrative business and not a very hard > technical task. Radio directors might subscribe to such a service. > In fact, considering the problem, the labels might pay for that > subscription rather than let others do it for them. > > Someone will make money here. Will it be you? Lucas Gonze is there: http://webjay.org/ cheers Bill
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