Monday, June 2, 2008

Another old rocker on the web

Neil Young isn't the only aging rocker trying to establish a presence on the web. Well, most of them probably are, really, but Peter Gabriel in particular seems to be at it. Well he's been at it for a while, what with OD2 and Real World but ...

OK, where was the news item here? Apart from PG's servers getting nicked? Ah yes ...

PG is about to launch The Filter, a web-based recommendation service that seems quite a bit like other recommendation services, except, well, PG's behind it. The site does aim to be fairly broad in scope, including not just music but movies, web videos and such, and aiming eventually to include features like restaurant recommendations for tourists. Good stuff if you're a PG fan, but probably not so web-shaking in the larger scheme of things.

BTW, I actually like PG's stuff, by and large, and his efforts in distributing music are interesting ... just having second thoughts about the notability of this particular item. But the major news services had no such doubts, and (as someone else of that vintage said) who am I to disagree?

1 comment:

David Hull said...

The Filter is still around, and PG is still involved, but it now bills itself as a machine learning company.