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Designing a Better Online Music Store
by:Larm 2008
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Vegard Sandvold
● Enterprise Search Consultant– Comperio AS (FAST
Search & Transfer)
● Music Technologist & Entreprenour– Musikkteknologen.no
– LiveRevolution.net
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Outline
1. Why we need better online music stores
2. Power of The Long Tail
3. Role of recommender systems in e-commerce
4. Expert, social and content-based recommendations
5. Demo
6. Additional thoughts and conclusion
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ShelvesClerk
http://flickr.com/photos/lynt/162883105/
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Shelves
Clerk
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Better... how?
● Rights Holders, Publishers and Retailers– «Make more money»
● Artists– «Visibility and promotion»
● Consumers– «Broaden my horizon»
– «Something new that will impress my friends»
– «I'm in the mood for some soft rock ballads»
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Long Tail Economics
● The cost of shelf space online is ZERO● Therefore:
1. Make everything available
2. Help me find it
● «Recommender systems expose consumers to a larger selection of interesting and relevant music»
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The Shape of The Long Tail
The Long Tail
The Hits
Items
Pop
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Said in Another Way...
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Source: «I Tube, You Tube, Everybody Tubes: Analyzing the World’s Largest User Generated Content Video System»,Cha et.al., ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2007.
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What is a Recommender
● System that connects (relevant) items to items, items to users, and users to users
● Way to navigate large data collections● Content relevance filter● Important characteristics include:
– Transparency
– Familiarity vs. novelty
– Completeness
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Orders of Information Management
1st order
Structuring
3rd order
Tagging and other
metadata
2nd order
Classification
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Recommendation Strategies
1. Expert
2. Social
3. Content-based
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Expert Recommendations
● «I'm telling you that you will like this, because I know a lot about music»
● Pros– Transparency of the recommendations
– Can differentiate between “good and bad” music, according to the expert
● Cons– Not personalized
– Limited coverage
– No scalingSource: Celma & Lamere, Music Recommendation Tutorial, ISMIR 2007
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http://www.viruscomix.com/page398.html
Non-expert Recommendations
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Social recommenders
● «You will like this, because it's popular with people like you»
● Pros– Works for and between everything
● Cons– Lack of transparency
– Already popular items stay popular (the rich get richer effect)
– Cold start, new items enter at the bottom
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Source: Celma & Lamere, Music Recommendation Tutorial, ISMIR 2007
Artists Similar to U2
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Small-world Networks
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The Long Tail Reach of Amazon
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Social Tagging
Pros● Order emerges from chaos
(folksonomies)● Layers of metadata
Cons● Polysemy, synonyms, spelling● Idiosyncracity● Sparsity
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Content-based Recommendations
● «You will like this, because it sounds like something you already like»
● Objective musical similarity– Timbre, instrumentation, rhythm, tempo, intensity
● Pros– No popularity bias
– No cold-start
– No manual effort required
● Cons– Not so transparent
– Can't tell «good» from «bad»
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Demo
Comperio Music Search
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The Effect of CB Recommendations
Source: Celma & Lamere, Music Recommendation Tutorial, ISMIR 2007
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User Ratings – Yes and No
● Very effective, but highly suggestive– We trust other people
– We tend to like what others like
● Can counteract Long Tail effects● This is viral marketing!
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Viral Marketing
1. Social links and sharing
2. Widgets
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Conclusion
● A Better Online Music Store is built on search and recommendation
● More money for Rights Holders, Publishers and Retailers
● Visibility and promotion for Artists● More music and fun for Consumers
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Thank you!
● Check out «Widgets, Viral Marketing and Findability» by Andrew Dubber– 14:15 in this auditorium
Vegard Sandvold+47 48 23 92 32