Discover Music with Pandora and the Music Genome Project

Now this is a way to discover music the Web 2.0 way. Pandora is an online music service that’s developed by a group of musicians (who knows better about music than musicians themselves) launched earlier this year. Many are saying that it is the best way to find music over the Web and the Net without supporting piracy.

Here’s what Pandora have to say about themselves:

Pandora™ is the doorway to this vast trove of musical information. With Pandora you can explore to your heart’s content. Just drop the name of one of your favorite songs or artists into Pandora and let the Genome Project go. It will quickly scan its entire world of analyzed music, almost a century of popular recordings - new and old, well known and completely obscure - to find songs with interesting musical similarities to your choice. Then sit back and enjoy as it creates a listening experience full of current and soon-to-be favorite songs for you.

All you need here is a decent computer and a broadband connection. Sign up with the service and you can then search for artists and listen a la Internet radio. It displays information about the track and the artist. It also intuitively searches for artists from the similar genre to fit your profile.

So far I’ve been trying a few of these services including Last.fm and Pandora seems to show a bit more promise since I don’t have to stream my own data to build my own profile.

YouTube Might Bring the Web to Its Knees +Happy Tree Friends - Ultimate Holiday Marathon

News flash! To those who think that broadcast quality TV can be done online right now, you might be mistaken. Internet companies have said that they’ve been doing much work just to keep the data flowing from video sites likeYouTube and Joost.

Google, who has acquired YouTube last year has said that the Net (including Google infrastructure) is not built to support streaming of broadcast quality media. Google, with a group of cable TV operators have issued this warning.

While most cable operators, are fearing that the web will take away their base with the abundance of video streaming sites. Google eased their fears by sharing that the large amount of data being transferred for broadcast puts a strain on the global network.

Here’s another interesting quip:

Research firm Gartner Inc. estimates that 60% of the Internet traffic that is uploaded from computers is peer-to-peer traffic, mostly from consumers swapping films and TV shows through select user groups and BitTorrent Inc.