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Closing the viral loop: we're slowly getting there. Here's a personal anecdote.

- heard a neat song on the radio
- used Ears to figure out what it was.
- watched the youtube video via Ears link. Liked the 80s-TRONish vibe enough to +1 it.
- Searched for La Roux on the browser, found friends recommending specific tracks.
- back to Ears, go to Play Music.
- Bought the album after listening to recommended tracks.
- Sharing this here (and will on public G+ in a few) so others can discover.

Loops like this are what power your social network. We can still do a better job, but I'm quite happy with my experience here and I hope others will slowly get there too.

discover, consume, share, repeat FTW


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk8eJh4i8Lo






 

Curious if anyone else was invited to this? Anyone interested in going with me?


*Pandora Listener Town Hall*
I'm writing to invite you to a Pandora Listener Town Hall meet-up in Oakland on Thursday, December 8th at 7:00 PM at Preservation Park on 13th Street. The get-together will be very informal. I'll share some Pandora history, some background on the Music Genome Project and talk about Pandora today. I also want to hear what's on your mind—questions, complaints, ideas—everything is fair game.
To RSVP, just reply to this email (ideally before Wednesday evening on 12/7). If you plan to bring guests just let us know how many and their names.
It should be a fun evening, complete with some Pandora swag!

Hope to see you soon.
– Tim (Founder)
WHAT: Pandora Listener Town Hall
WHEN: Thursday, December 8th at 7:00 PM
WHERE: Nine Hall at Preservation Park
668 13th Street
Oakland, CA 94612
Click here for map and directions
RSVP: Reply to this email with your name plus the name(s) of your guests









 

Unofficial Google phone support today:

* GTV Music app (won't play an album, only plays first song.)
* Picasa Multiple account + dasher fun (uploads going to wrong account, looks broken because both accounts have same name/profile photo) Figured it out by comparing obfuscated gaia IDs..

Lots of "Open Link in Incognito Window" required, sadly :(









 

 

 

search quality peeps:

Can you autocomplete proper names that have stop-characters in them? Maybe pull them from freebase or something?

cla4514war -- a book
ke -- a musical artist
3oh!3 -- another musical artist

Even odder is the prompt 'Search instead for cla4514war'

Note that that Youtube executes these searches properly. And an unreleased music product fails badly here (which was how I found this issue in the first place.)