{"id":793,"date":"2006-11-24T17:51:21","date_gmt":"2006-11-25T00:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp\/?p=793"},"modified":"2006-11-24T17:51:21","modified_gmt":"2006-11-25T00:51:21","slug":"fred-please-join-dorktunes-a-lastfm-and-social-networking-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/fred-please-join-dorktunes-a-lastfm-and-social-networking-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Please Join dorktunes: A last.fm and social networking story"},"content":{"rendered":"

A VC: Pandora vs Last.fm (continued)<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Last.fm<\/a><\/p>\n

\nFred Wilson is one of the smartest bloggers on my list (that’s very high praise). He is a VC and believes in (and so invests in) all the right things-open data, no DRM, freemium business models, great music as a way of life, social software. He funded my favourite service, del.cio.us. His blog is great, most notably because of the extremely high quality of the commenters he has there. I would kill for more comments… .but he has serious mojo… <\/p>\n

Anyway – one of things that marks him out is that he not only talks about investment but other things too – in particular he listens to a ton of new music – and writes about it accordingly. He is a specialist generalist with a VC on the side…<\/p>\n

The reason I am calling him out is because I thought he might be interested in my decision to establish<\/a> dorktunes<\/a>, RedMonk’s new last.fm group. Its going well – its not exactly hypergrowth but now we have 25 people, friends of an industry analyst firm, that are all contributing to a pool of music metadata. Most are in the UK, and US. The last.fm provides some limited demographic information, which is nice. <\/p>\n

I don’t know where I am going with this – but some of our network have already come back and said<\/a> how much they were enjoying the song “selections”. We all seem to have pretty eclectic taste so its quite a mixed bag. <\/p>\n

RedMonk Radio is the name of our podcast show, while dorktunes is an aggregation of the music our community plays. I would like to see them the two converge somehow, so I will have to think about that.<\/p>\n

The dorktunes idea came to me when I saw that<\/a> an entire BBC radio show was being declared via the audioscrobbler minimusicpublisher.<\/p>\n

You could argue why would you want to take music suggestions from a bunch of people that talk to industry analysts. But I doubt Fred would. He might even do something similar with his own demographic. <\/p>\n

Its like the Long Tail of a Butterfly’s wing, in the spirals of metadata flow here: I am listening to new music discovered through a community, and as I listen to it, that fact is fed back into the network, therefore reinforcing the tracks playedness on dorktunes.<\/p>\n

Why is an industry analyst playing around with this? Because we’re all media companies now. Music brings people together – and the people at dorktunes are mostly the people that make us smart, the kind of people whose blogs we read or hang out on our irc channe<\/a>l. Our peer readers, our collaborators, our scaled IQ.<\/p>\n

What’s wrong with sharing music in the office? Its just a very distributed office… that spans organisations and continents. <\/p>\n

We need to start doing more on Forums and so on. But its a start.<\/p>\n

If you dont know what last.fm is please see the previous link.<\/p>\n

So this post is an invitation to Fred, but also very much to any other Friends of RedMonk or monkchips reading this.<\/p>\n

last.fm<\/a>
\nRedMonk<\/a>
\nFredWilson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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