Your Momma Taught You to Share
With the new release finally out, time to look up and see what has been going on.
Perhaps most interesting to us is the release of a report Consumer Taste Sharing Is Driving the Online Music Business and Democratizing Culture by
Derek Slater with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and Gartner Research Director Mike McGuire . They provide some very interesting and well-documented insights on the transformative role of music taste sharing on our culture.
And speaking of taste sharing, perhaps the most important part of the new release, at least for PC users, is our next generation MyStrands personal, real-time recommender client. All the old features are much improved. And if you look carefully at the bottom you’ll also see some new buttons. Including the leftmost one which, if you click it, makes everyone look like they have big, round blue heads. Go ahead. Try it. It’s fun.
Actually, that button pops up our brand new community and taste-sharing screen where you can share music suggestions with your friends. Which our marketing team tells us most folks would rather do than make everyone look like they have big, round blue heads. I think they’re wrong, but you’ll have to be the judge. You’ll also have to download the client to discover all of the other new features. Here’s a hint about another of them: If you have a big music collection on your PC, we’ll be your designated driver.
And since my momma taught me to share, this year’s This Is A Weapon release by Philly street punk band Cranked Up! is a fun little thing that should go well with any holiday get together.
