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Pandora on your mobile and in your living room

Pandora anywherePandora has launched its new ‘anywhere’ platform, which will see the music discovery service being available to devices beyond the PC — both mobile and around the home. If you’re not familiar with the service, Pandora is based on the Music Genome Project where a group of experts have analyzed the component parts or ‘genes’ of the musical works of over 10,000 artists. The result of which is that you can tell Pandora to create a radio station based on songs that have similar ‘genes’ to a chosen artist or track. However, until now, aside from a partnership with Slim Devices (makers of the excellent Squeezebox), Pandora was only available through a flash-compatible web browser.

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Mozilla Labs working on making mobile browsing a snip

joey browser pluginMozilla Labs, the people behind Firefox, are experimenting with a new service to make mobile browsing less cumbersome and more convenient. Called ‘Joey‘ the idea is to enable users to bookmark or clip sections of a web page from their desktop browser that they wish to view on a mobile phone at a later date. Any snippets are then stored on the Joey server where they are reformatted and dynamically updated for mobile browsing.

In an article published in InfoWorld, Doug Turner, leader of the project, gives the example of clipping a scoreboard in order to keep up with a football match. Users would select the scoreboard section of a web page and store it on their personal Joey account, so that it’s then viewable from their mobile phone and constantly updated with the latest data.

Joey certainly takes an interesting approach to solving the mobile web problem, with its desktop/mobile hybrid approach — and for an information junkie like myself it could prove to be a very useful service.

See a demo of Joey here.