Hi jessica,
I wsa listening to the latest podcast and heard you say you wanted to hear crazy outlandish ideas for the future of Zune. Well, here's some! (I did email these to you as well but I guessed your email address so haven't a clue if they will have gotten thru or not)
- -I want to listen to a song on my computer and then pause it, get in my car and turn the stereo on and have it instantly pick up from the place that I paused it when I was listening to it on my computer a few moments earlier.
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- -Give us an API so that us developer geeks can take all the data that you have on us (plays, top songs, favorite songs, playlists, smart DJ lists, podcast subscriptions, god knows what else) and make it available so that we can build our own mashups. I've seen heaps of requests on the forums for stuff that I know that you're simply never going to have the time to do - so why not give us the data and let us build it instead? For example, I'd really like a podcast recommendation service based on podcast plays - I suspect you guys are never going to do that cos you are laser-focused on music - so why not let the community build it instead? Another one - I'd like to build a chart of the most popular songs that have been "squirted" via Zune Social.
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- -Wouldn't it be cool if there were a "virtual DJ" in the software - a figure that actually talks to us and tells us all about our recommendations - maybe we could even have a conversation with this virtual DJ. Maybe we could tell him/her whether we like a song or not - save us from having to use the mouse to do the like/not like thing. Maybe...good god, maybe it could even be our favorite rock star talking to us (you asked for blue-sky, right?)
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- -I could tell Zune about stuff I'm interested in (sports teams, bands etc...) and whenever Zune "hears" something about that stuff on the radio and it thinks we'd be interested in it, Zune could interrupt what we're listening to and play it for us - or maybe store it away for later.
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- -The artist bios are cool but keeping them up to date can't be easy. Why not scour the web and pull out the latest news about bands and display that stuff as well?
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- -Broadcast gigs on Zune.net
-Jamie
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/5nqozw">My Zune blog</a>
