Blank (Media) Slate

This is just too good to pass up… Seamus McCauley posted a complimentary note on his “Virtual Economics” blog today:

MatchMine is the best new idea I’ve seen this year. It’s not new to recommend media content to people on the basis of their individual preferences (that’s what Google News tries to do for news, what Last.fm and Pandora do very effectively for music, what TIOTI wants to do for TV, what Amazon does adequately, if sometimes randomly, with books) but trying to generalise it across multiple media from a single location is new.

I’m certainly pleased to hear that the idea I cooked up strikes a chord. I’ve been living this dream for the past couple years, and it’s gratifying that there’s a receptive audience for it. We’re still in the (very) early hours of the execution of the business itself, so I’m excited to see us transition from the “great idea” phase into providing a “great solution” for the end users.

… and so it begins.