July42008
SeeqPod takes on Muxtape with `PodLists’ (via Musically)
From readwriteweb / Sarah Perez
The music search engine SeeqPod has just announced a new service for music fans: “PodLists.” Because of the massive amount of playable search results available on the SeeqPod service - 12 million at the moment and ever-growing - it can be difficult to find music that you like. Sites like Last.fm rely on social recommendations to help you find new artists, but SeeqPod’s take is a bit different. Instead of launching social features, they’ll be posting fresh, customized playlists to the site’s homepage on a daily basis.
Each PodList will have an identifying theme - for example, today’s include the “SeeqPod Top 20,” “Old School Rap,” and “Funk For Ya Trunk.” The idea is that instead of having social recommendations in place, you can be exposed to more kinds of music by playing a daily playlist that highlights some of the tracks that can be found on SeeqPod. In a way, this also turns SeeqPod into an online radio station of sorts - one where they don’t bombard you with the same tunes over and over again, but one where the station changes identities every day.