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.
