Briefs: Travel Info, Concierge.com Goes Mobile; Microsoft Research Into Automatic Playlist Generation

+ Crisp Wireless Powers Concierge Mobile Extends Luxury Travel Services onto Mobile Devices

…access Concierge.com content including trusted recommendations, insider guides and Condé Nast Traveler’s Gold List of the top hotels and resorts in the world. Additionally, travel enthusiasts can download picturesque images as wallpaper to their mobile phone.

Direct to Concierge.com Mobile Version

+ PAPA: Physiology and Purpose-Aware Automatic Playlist Generation (via Microsoft Research)

In this paper we present PAPA, a novel approach for automatically generating playlists. The proposed frame work utilizes the user’s physiological response to music, together with traditional song meta-data to generate a playlist the user will not only enjoy, but which will assist him or her in achieving various user-defined goals (“purpose”). In addition to outlining the generic framework, we present an exemplary application named MPTrain that (1) creates a playlist in real-time to assist users in achieving specific exercise goals;and (2) incorporates the user’s physiological response to the music to determine the next song to play.

+ iLike (Music Sharing) Now Available on FaceBook (via iLike Blog)

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