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Home Archives Archives before June 13, 2001 RSS Feed Adaptive Path (my company!) About peterme Coordinates Most of the Time Oakland, CA Interests Current American history around the time of the Revolution, figuring out how to marry top-down task-based information architecture processes with bottom-up document-based ones, finding a good dentist in San Francisco Oakland Perennial Designing the user experience (interaction design, information architecture, user research, etc.), cognitive science, ice cream, films and film theory, girls, commuter bicycling, coffee, travel, theoretical physics for laypeople, single malt scotch, fresh salmon nigiri, hanging out, comics formalism, applied complexity theory, Krispy Kreme donuts. surf Click to see where I wander. Wish list Show me you love me by buying me things. Spyonme Track updates of this page with Spyonit. Clickee here. Essays [Editor's note: peterme.com began as a site of self-published essays, a la Stating The Obvious. This evolved (or devolved) towards link lists and shorter thoughtpieces. These essays are getting a tad old, but have some good ideas.] Reader Favorites Interface Design Recommended Reading List Whose "My" Is It Anyway? Frames: Information Vs. Application Subjects Interface Design Web Development Movie Reviews Travel		Music Recommendations That Work. Posted on 03/25/2002. At the ASIS&T IA Summit, Rashmi and I chatted about recommender systems, a field which she is studying. She mentioned that in a study she conducted, MediaUnbound came out far and ahead of other music recommenders. And in my brief experience, that rings true. The initial interview takes a while (10 minutes or so), but once done, the music it brings back is right on track. You can register to try it out--I had to wait a few days before I was accepted. 1 comment so far. Add a comment. Previous entry: "Tools for Faceted Search and Browse." Next entry: "Wikka wikka wikka." Comments: COMMENT #1 thanks for the shout out. glad you liked the music. happy listening and exploring. /michael papish founder, MediaUnbound Posted by Michael Papish @ 03/25/2002 05:57 PM PST [link to this comment] Add A New Comment: Name E-Mail (optional) Homepage (optional) Comments Now with a bigger box for text entry! Whee! All contents of peterme.com are © 1998 - 2002 Peter Merholz.