One cool thing Pandora might be able to do is analyze their stream data and predict where bands will have enough fans to make money on a live show. I could imagine TicketFly offering a service that essentially tells bands where to play, and of course steer them to a Ticketfly venue whenever possible.
This would be especially helpful for independent and "mid-market" type bands, provided the venues available in certain cities aren't already tied into a different ticketing ecosystem via contract.
Locally, I can choose from three (3) rather prominent avenues to buy from, but there's no overlap that I can tell between venues. As in, you can't get tickets to a LiveNation exclusive venue (large scale) and some smaller ones might have arrangements with other entities. I guess what I'm saying is I think you're right, but there are probably minefields of contracts in place.
Great as long as the algorithm isn't hiding a bunch.
I stopped using Pandora years ago when I interviewed with them and they ranted at me about how much they hate paying customers because they make more on advertising, which is when I started paying twice as much for Spotify.
Also, the people I know that use Pandora, and my experience of using Pandora literally since they were announced on Slashdot and were one of the first Flash apps, is that they do better 'radio' than other folks, but if you stick with a channel, it don't change much over years.
Yep. I use Pandora, because it's good at doing a "mood" for different kinds of gatherings. But the stations gather dust over time without modification.
Even better they can tell me when a band is playing locally. I listen to so many bands on Pandora, and I always seem to find out about smaller shows after they happen.
Pandora can significantly increase the attendance at these shows. That's much more important economically to most bands than the tiny royalty checks. It can be a real benefit to the music business.
So the CMS is hosted in your cloud, and the website itself is hosted where ever we want? Am I understand this correctly?
Not sure I understand the advantage of this approach. It's interesting, but at the end of the day everything is still in the cloud, and the sites are only secure as the security on your cloud environment.
That is correct. The management tools and the DB are in our cloud. All you need is a server running Apache and PHP. Some of the main advantages are:
- no DB to maintain
- much less code to run and secure
- really fast responses because all the data is cached locally
- updates comes very fast, because they are mainly in the management tools which we host and seamlessly provide to you
High availability? Separating the editing/management interface from the live website allows you to quickly "re-publish" a site if something catastrophic happens to the hosting server. My organizations uses an enterprise CMS with the same concept. Our editing interface could be down, but the live sites are still up, and vice versa.
That's correct. The interface though is not separated. The client software that is running on your server seamlessly connects to our cloud to provide you with the management tools needed. You can call it a proxy, but a much smarter one.
The cook at the frat house went home after putting lunch out on Friday, and didn't come back until Monday morning. However we had a rule that the kitchen had to be stocked with bread, cheese, butter and Cinnamon toast shakers at all times. You can go all weekend eating grilled cheese and cinnamon toast sandwiches.I did it a few times, at least.
Purdue graduate here, and I think that's a fair assessment. The rich kids seemed to be Management majors. They just needed a degree so that they could take over Daddy's company when he retired in a few years.
Seems like a solution in search of a problem. Finding email addresses is not hard. It's pretty easy to guess the corporate email address of anybody working for a US based company. Simply use Google to figure out the corporate pattern for email, and apply to the person you want to reach. When in doubt, simply guessing variants of the usual patterns will usually work within 5 minutes. There are also tools like jigsaw.com and LinkedIn.
I have a different opinion✢: I think it's a clever service, maybe not one of the most useful, but it's a clear vision and it goes straight to the point.
There are a lot of cases where finding an email is an easy task, as easy as flasname@company.com, but I expect this service to shine when it's hard to guess an email address, so let's see what it could do.
✢Disclaimer: I know yawnt, the guy who wrote this service.
i agree it's not that hard, however even if it takes 5 minutes you're valuing your time at 0.99*12 = 11.88$ / h .. i'd rather just pay 99¢ .. i thought about this because lately i've been been coldmailing people a lot and it does take its time.. thanks for your feedback however, always appreciated :)
