Thanks for the feedback Dan.
> 1. given some artist (via musicbrainz IDs), get a list of their fans
> URLs on MySpace.
A great application, but this service won't do that quite. for now we only
scrape the 'front page' of a myspace page - this is only the top friends,
which tends to be other music artists not fans. this should be possible w/
OpenSocial (and maybe the next version of dbtune/myspace)
> 2. given someone's myspace URL, get a list of musicbrainz IDs for
> bands they like.
This should (kinda) work if the bands they like are 'top friends'. however,
there is no automatic lookup of musicbrainz IDs in the current service.
part of the problem is myspace 'names' tend to be really funky - it is
fashionable to use strange characters and include extra text in the name.
this makes the lookup to mbz return a lot of ambiguity. however adding a
musicbrainz lookup is hi on the todo list - i haven't tried using Yves and
Chris S's hybrid artist/track lookup method...
> 3 .... or for the most popular 20 artists amongst them and their buddies
Would be a _really_ cool application. But would be tricky - afaik there is
no logging on myspace of who plays what - only total play counts for each
artist. but maybe a mashup combining last.fm data myspace data...
> Since MusicBrainz has Myspace URLs as 'advanced relations', this
> should be possible.
i did not know that. that is awesome. we should link form musicbrainz to
dbtune/myspace...
-Kurt
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Dan Brickley <danbrick
...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/03/2008, Kurt J <kur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi List,
> > I've been working with Yves R to create a live Myspace to RDF service.
> It
> > can be found on dbtune here:
> > http://dbtune.org/myspace/
> > The service can be used two ways - with a myspace URL or a myspace uid.
> For
> > example, J-Dilla's myspace page (http://myspace.com/jdilla) can be
> RDFized
> > like this...
> > http://dbtune.org/myspace/jdilla
> > We just drop the 'myspace.com' and replace w/ "dbtune.org/myspace"
> > Alternatively, you can use the myspace-assigned UID directly
> > http://dbtune.org/myspace/uid/38115508
> > The resulting RDF uses MO and FOAF ontologies. Note that only the "top
> > friends" are included in this representation. Also, a special bonus,
> for
> > artist accounts availableAs links are included pointing to the streaming
> > audio cache for each track!!! Enjoy.
> > -Kurt J
> Very cool!!!
> Here's a wishlist I've had in mind for a while:
> 1. given some artist (via musicbrainz IDs), get a list of their fans
> URLs on MySpace.
> 2. given someone's myspace URL, get a list of musicbrainz IDs for
> bands they like.
> 3 .... or for the most popular 20 artists amongst them and their buddies
> Since MusicBrainz has Myspace URLs as 'advanced relations', this
> should be possible.
> Do you have enough data and the right vocab to do this via RDF yet?
> cheers,
> Dan
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> http://danbri.org/
