Those of you with last.fm would do well to check out this page. It parses your listening history against upcoming concerts and builds you a calendar of when your favorite bands are playing your town. (Those of you who don’t have last.fm, get with it already, willya?!)
This seems like a pretty common sense move on last.fm’s part, but just the fact that it’s online and actually works properly makes me excited. It’s just a tiny taste of the AI-enhanced future we have to look forward to. (Assuming some asshole doesn’t blow up the world first =P)
If you want to get deeper hit of the day after tomorrow then you could also try subscribing to the iCal feed that last.fm auto-generates for your recommended events (Here’s mine) and you’ll soon find stuff you’d like to see showing up in your calendar. Who put it there? You did. You just didn’t have to actually “do” it, y’know? Rad…
Anyway, just to temper the breathless enthusiasm of all this, I wanted to throw down a couple links that probe the deeper issues at play in the user data monetization game:
- YouTube - Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us
- YouTube - Why do You Tube?
- AttentionTrust
- Google Video - Human Computation
The gist of it is, while all this passively collected user data parsing is super cool and everything, it’s also incredibly valuable. Just by browsing the web and searching Google, you are generating a mountain of data that people are willing to spend billions and billions of dollars to get access to. Google AdWords and the like are barely even the tip of the iceberg compared to what’s going to be possible in this field over the next several years. Should be exciting! I’ll leave you with a song:
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