Hunch Takes A Deep Data Dive On The Tastes And Interests Of eBay Users

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In November, eBay acquired Hunch, a service that provides a “taste graph” of personalized recommendations based on users’ interests. eBay wants to use Hunch’s technology to used to drive more personalized, relevant shopping experiences on the marketplace through data analysis

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Learn About Eighth Notes With GarageBand Music Theory

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Eighth Notes are the subject of today’s GarageBand Music Theory Lesson. If you’re new to GB Music Theory, be sure to check out the previous weeks’ lessons on Whole Notes , Half Notes and Quarter Notes . The rhythm value of an eighth note is one eighth of a whole note.

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A Musicial Version of Back to the Future?

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Is a musical version of Back to the Future so far-fetched? After all, Marty introducing rock music at the school dance is one of the highlights of the movie

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Grammy Awards partner with CBS for digital experience

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In these heady two-or-three-screen days, the Grammy Awards has been a classic case study in how social media engagement can pay off ratings-wise. Viewership of the on-air broadcast have increased dramatically since 2009 in younger demographics, with no small amount of credit due to the increasingly elaborate digital campaigns implemented by the Recording Academy.

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Apple Schooled Music Execs Then, Here Are The Lessons Online Video Should Learn Now

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Editor’s Note: This post is written by guest author Peter Csathy , who is President & CEO of online video enabler and transcoding company Sorenson Media .

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Watch OK Go’s New Desert Orchestra Stunt Driving Music Video [Video]

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Last week we showed you a quick preview of OK Go's new video for "Needing/Getting", and now here's the full monty, compiled from a literal drive-by of 1157 homemade instruments of melodic Rube Goldberg(ish) goodness. More

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Pixound Turns Photos into Musical Instruments, and It’s Better Than You Think [Apps]

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Pixound brings an intriguing approach to the music app: letting you play any photo as if it were a musical instrument.

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Beck: Debra [Video]

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I still can't believe Beck is a wacky Scientologist. I would like him to just be wacky Beck but whatever, his music is still amazing and Debra is one of my favorites.

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Alan Lomax’s Amazing Music Archive Is Going Online in February, and Will Be Free [Music]

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If you don't know of Alan Lomax , you should. He single-handedly traveled the world to record traditional music across America, Europe and the Caribbean. He amassed over 5,000 hours of sound recordings, and now a team of archivists are posting it online for anyone to listen to.

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New Crazy Björk Thing: Interactive iPad Album on Colbert [Video]

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Bjork stopped by the Colbert Report last night to talk about her new album "Biophilia," which has an interactive iPad component that lets listeners manipulate the music with various on-screen elements. The interview wasn't without the obligatory technical difficulties, but thanks to some expressive gestures we all came away enlightened as to the difference between a mouse and a touchscreen. [ The Colbert Report ] More

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