Remember the old days when you had to call in using a phone to make a request to your favorite radio station? Even with newer ways to connect to your favorite frequency, how can you be sure your little meager request will mean something to them?Â
If your favorite radio station happens to be Live 105 in San Francisco, you’ll know that your expressed preference for a song means something. They just announced that starting this Monday, every weekday from 8 pm to midnight, Live 105 will be using Jelli to set their playlists every weekday.Â
Jelli.net is a user-controlled online streaming service – TechCruch describes it as “sort of a Digg for streaming music, or a group-controlled Pandora.” In case you don’t get the references:
Digg (http://www.digg.com) is a user driven social content website. Everything on Digg is user-submitted. After you submit content, other people read your submission and “Digg” what they like best. If your story receives enough Diggs, it’s promoted to the front page.
Pandora (http://www.pandora.com/)lets you type in the name of an artist or song to get started with your own customizable internet radio station. Although stations start with a single artist or song, users can add additional songs and artists to tune their stations to their liking. Pandora also offers recommendations to help you generate personalized streaming radio for your computer, mobile phone or home entertainment system.
Jelli uses internet crowdsourcing and group empowerment to lobby and affect change over songs played at different radio stations. Users vote songs up or down to create and alter the playlist, but that’s not all! They also get a limited number of Rockets and Bombs to move music more definitively up and down the list. And we hear the chat area gets lively! It’s radio, but created with internet speed!
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