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about trance
 dinsdag 8 juli 2003
The LazyWeb has a valid point: sooner or later some one will implement pretty much any brilliant idea you have. Last.fm proves them right once again, by running with one of the ideas I wrote down some months ago for a business plan competition. I found out about them through this Wired article, which is also the cause of a massive overload at Last.fm. I guess I will have to try them out in a few weeks, when I get back from my vacation.
I'm not sure if their music selection can live up to a trance addict's wishes, but I really believe this is the way to go. Interactivity is what sets the Internet apart from pretty much any other medium we have. Both radio and television are broadcasted to your dumb terminal with no (or very little) possibility for interaction. Even something as basic as user feedback is practically impossible. This is where the Internet comes in. The Internet is by design a 2-way medium, however this has been stifled by the client-server paradigm (the World Wide Web might ring a bell or two) and assymetric Internet connections. Only now is the Internet starting to show its true nature with peer-to-peer applications being the most prominent example. However, also Weblogs and Wiki's offer an unseen amount of interaction between writers and readers. In fact, with the addition of comments and blogrolls to a weblog, the writer is the reader and the reader the writer.
Now that the writeable web is here to stay, it's time to move on to audio and video. I believe total audio interactivity is already possible with most current broadband connections. People are just waiting for "the killer app", maybe it's something like last.fm. I certainly hope so.
10:09:17 PM 
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