One of my friends had this back in high school and I thought it was really cool back then though I only had a vague notion of how it worked. Looking at the implementation now I'm even more...
One of my friends had this back in high school and I thought it was really cool back then though I only had a vague notion of how it worked. Looking at the implementation now I'm even more impressed with it even though the problem it solves has been obviated and also can be solved in way more versatile ways today.
It's nice to see this super clever and simple solution to a simple problem and the intro points out how it really highlights the promise of what we now call IoT device. If someone tried to make this today I can't help but feel like there would be 12 unnecessary technologies shoehorned in to sell it as a service, put it on the blockchain, or whatever else.
Very cool. At first I was amazed that they basically created Shazam before smart phones. Then I continued reading about how it worked and while less impressive still a neat idea. Interestingly, I...
Very cool. At first I was amazed that they basically created Shazam before smart phones. Then I continued reading about how it worked and while less impressive still a neat idea.
Interestingly, I looked up Shazam on Wikipedia and it turns out it was actually first launched only 2 years later than this:
Initially, in 2002, the service was launched only in the UK and was known as "2580", as the number was the shortcode that customers dialled from their mobile phone to get music recognized. The phone would automatically hang up after 30 seconds. A result was then sent to the user in the form of a text message containing the song title and artist name. At a later date, the service also began to add hyperlinks in the text message to allow the user to download the song online.
Just thought that was also really neat how it worked in the early days.
One of my friends had this back in high school and I thought it was really cool back then though I only had a vague notion of how it worked. Looking at the implementation now I'm even more impressed with it even though the problem it solves has been obviated and also can be solved in way more versatile ways today.
It's nice to see this super clever and simple solution to a simple problem and the intro points out how it really highlights the promise of what we now call IoT device. If someone tried to make this today I can't help but feel like there would be 12 unnecessary technologies shoehorned in to sell it as a service, put it on the blockchain, or whatever else.
Very cool. At first I was amazed that they basically created Shazam before smart phones. Then I continued reading about how it worked and while less impressive still a neat idea.
Interestingly, I looked up Shazam on Wikipedia and it turns out it was actually first launched only 2 years later than this:
Just thought that was also really neat how it worked in the early days.