Musicplasma
So I ran across musicplasma. It shows relationships between artists based on influences and genres by drawing a visual map given an artist name. It looks very impressive and the graph is interactive, letting you discover new artists.
I do wonder how it accomplishes this. It seems that the the artist discography and album images are being pulled from Amazon.com. It does take you to Amazon when you click an album name. But does it use the Amazon product recommendation and similarity features too, using web services? If so, it’s good zeitgeist information.
Update: I guess I discovered this only a year too late. References here, here and here indicate that musicplasma probably does use Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Posted on January 6th, 2005 under Tech • 
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