Google Music Trends
I love Google Talk. If you haven’t used it, it’s another IM application just like all the others. What I like about it is that chats are auto logged in my gMail account so I can search them later when I forget a URL someone sent me or other bit of information.
Recently they added a nice feature to the status area where it could display whatever your listening to. I love this because I can see what my friends are listening to at that moment. It’s started more then one conversation to find out more about the artist.
Today when I turned it on it asked me about sharing my data with Google Music Trends.
It’s completely opt-in as it should be. I’m interested to see the “charts” or whatever you know is coming. Could this be a way to finally get more indie artists into their music search and other areas? I know that 80% of the music I listen to is stuff that many people outside of the podosphere have not heard of yet.
And podcasts? What are they going to do with those? I listen to plenty of those as well and the data will be shared with them that I’m listening to them. Will they eventually have a Google Podcasts? They have their fingers in everything else so you know it’s only a matter of time.
Neat to find little gold nuggets like this once and a while. Something worth keeping an eye on for sure.
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You have a typo in your article – Podasts. And I’m not sure podospher was what you intended. Doesn’t WordPress has a spellchecker?
Thanks for the catch. Actually WordPress does not have a spell checker, but the new version of Firefox does and I love them for it!!
Last.fm is another place that can grab that info from you (through an additional plug in hooked up to your iTunes). On my listener page, the songs – podsafe and not – and all the podcasts I listen to show up. It’s another cool place for the “indie” songs and shows to appear.