Aehso’s Output

Audioscrobbler: navigate the map of music that people acutally listen to.

Woah I like this - never mind sales or unit shipment based charts Audioscrobbler plugs into your media player and builds up a profile of your musical tastes while you play. So what you might say - well they combine your play history with everyone elses and generate some very very useful charts, groups associations etc via a personalized web page. Very cool.

It is worth noting this as yet another fantastic example of near perfect REST protocol/service design - the client plugin only has to submit one handshake when started (to see how healthy the server is) and then multiple subsequent submissions, one for each song played (or half played). Sweet, it’s no wonder plugins are popping up for every major media player.

These guys could have gotten carried away and defined SOAP interfaces for querying/deleting/updating the back-end data but why do that when you can provide a more usable interface via a local servlet application. No doubt when this becomes more popular(and it definately will), people will start demanding fat client - there’s a lesson here that many a WS-stack-fascinated architect could do well to heed.

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