Pandora Internet Radio

Pandora Internet Radio is a personalized radio offered online. It is part of the Music Genome Project.http://www.pandora.com/mgp.shtml For this project, musicians and technologists created an ensemble of music and divided it into musical attributes that identify the music by things such as melody, harmony, rhythm and lyrics rather then popularity. New songs are suggested based on this criteria. Listeners start a new station by entering a song they know they like. The Pandora Internet Radio suggests new song based on that song. Listeners may add new songs at any time.

Listeners can have a free account which will give customers 40 hours of free play every month. Once customers have reached their 40 in any given month, they are offered the opportunity to pay a small amount to listen for the rest of the month. Everything resets the following month and customers receive their free 40 hours again.

Released in July of 2008, the free mobile version of Pandora's streaming radio service that was developed as an application for the iPhone became an instant hit, becoming one of the 10 most popular iPhone apps of all time.Washington Post: Giant of Internet Radio Nears Its 'Last Stand' (August 16, 2008) By December of 2008, the application had been downloaded and installed more than 2 million times.MacDailyNews: Pandora: 2 million Apple iPhone clients and counting (December 3, 2008)

Pandora Mobile is also available on Android, BlackBerry, Palm pre and windows mobile. The app is offered on other Apple products like the iPod and iPad.

• "It's similar to Yahoo's Launchcast and others, but it works better than any service I've tried yet."—CNETCNET: One More Reason You Don't Need Commercial Radio (September 6, 2008)

• "Musical curiosity is no dangerous thing with Pandora's iPhone app for music discovery, except that you'll soon be hooked."—The New York TimesThe New York Times: Pandora Media Review (July 10, 2008)