Sometimes a new service makes you just say WOW. this is what happened to me today when i re-discovered idiomag (they need to change that name cause in France it sounds like "suckermag"). This is a beautifully automated music magazine designed just for you in a matter of seconds. The experience is so simple and the magic funnel works perfect. You only need to enter your Last.fm/pandora/iLike profile (no need to register) and they swallow your profile information to build a superb music magazine composed of posts/picks and sound file (they make the smart aggregation of data).
The browsing experience is also great. you have all the fine tune/sharing features possible. The magazine gets smarter over time and learns what you liked and did not (reminds me of our portfolio company outbrain). I wish they had an embed version so i can put it on my blog (but they have a facebook app)
A must try
ps: thanks to ReadWriteWeb for the write up this am.
ps2: if the founders of Idiomag read this you guys need to change in the registration form the default options for birth date otherwise most users will be born in 2008...
ps3: the facebook app does not seem to work right now...
ps4: indeed the founders of idiomag read my blog :) thanks for the answer. below an embedded version
Hey Ouriel,
Glad you like :) and thanks for the feedback.
We will change that default birthdate.
Really frustrating re the facebook app - I'm 99% sure its not our problem, but we will be having a look.
RE blog embeds - this is possible by going to "Your profile" and click on the "Post to" button - typepad is one of the options.
RE "suckermag"... I'd better have a look around and see if we are called anything more offensive in other languages as well!
Posted by: Andrew | 08 January 2008 at 11:39 AM
Great to hear that. i would put the embed code more prominently next to the mag as an icon
another "bug" i cannot retrieve my information from pandora in "profile" although this is available from your homepage
Posted by: ouriel | 08 January 2008 at 11:59 AM
Hey Ouriel,
We have just released a new update with a personalised music player to accompany to the mag - check it out and see what you think :)
http://blog.idiomag.com/2008/03/personalised-playlists-launched/
Posted by: Andrew Davies | 10 March 2008 at 03:50 PM