Selected Articles
December 5, 2007
Napster Launches New Music Discovery and Listening Channel Through NTT DoCoMo's Latest Entertainment Subscription Service
Japanese consumers get accurate recommendations from MediaUnbound.

July 12, 2007
Napster Over-The-Air Music Subscription Service Now Available Across Extensive New Line of DoCoMo Mobile Phones in Japan
Recommendations reach even more people.

April 23, 2007
Napster Set to Launch Over-the-Air Music Subscription Service in Japan
MediaUnbound provides recommendations for one of the largest telecoms in Japan.

August 9, 2007
Personalization and Recommendation Services: Music Discovery 2.0
“Now, as media consumers rely more on online distribution services, so too do they need — for lack of a better expression — ‘online friends’ to point them in the right direction. This is what MediaUnbound does, utilizing a process that is one-part algorithm and one-part music fan.”

December 18, 2006
MTV Networks’ URGE Digital Music Service Unveils ‘My Auto-Mix,’ A New Way to Experience Music Recommendations
MediaUnbound licenses their unique hybrid technology to create the foundation for ‘My Auto-Mix.’

October 2, 2006
Napster Opens First Music Subscription Service in Japan
“The science of intelligent recommendations has roots in Cambridge.” And it’s still there.

November 10, 2005
Talk to MediaUnbound at FallFocus
CEO Michael Papish appears on a panel at the San Jose conference on media personalization with representative from Real Networks, MusicChoice, and others.

June 5, 2005
Associated Press profiles several music recommendation technlogies
Napster COO Laura Goldberg explains that MediaUnbound’s “hybrid” technology distinguishes it from the pack.

June 7, 2004
New MediaUnbound customer Mix & Burn debuts digital music kiosk
MediaUnbound to help music shoppers burn their own mix CDs with personalized music recommendations.

May 26, 2004
Put on your toque! MediaUnbound heads to the Great White North
MediaUnbound expands to Canada by providing personalization features for Napster’s northern service.

May 20, 2004
Napster 2.0 launches across the UK with MediaUnbound technology
MediaUnbound scours England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland for the best music to recommend to new Napster users.

May 1, 2003
New York Times reviews how MediaUnbound music recommendations are made
Colin Wambsgans talks about promoting the Palace Brothers over Squirrel Bait.

January 28, 2003
Researcher for UC Berkeley calls MediaUnbound “the best Music Recommender system, ever!”
MediaUnbound agrees with findings.

October 17, 2002
MediaUnbound CEO featured in Radio and Internet Newsletter (RAIN)
RAIN publishes rant regarding the current quandary of webcasting and the RIAA.

January 28, 2002
internet.com: Pressplay Pens Three New Deals
“... Pressplay will license MediaUnbound’s personalization technology, making it easier to customize digital music offerings in categories subscribers tend to access on a regular basis.”

April 6, 2001
MediaUnbound featured in Salon.com
“In just half an hour, MediaUnbound managed to convince me to investigate 10 new bands that I never would have heard on the radio.”

Testimonials

“MediaUnbound does what it promises to do: introduce new, obscure bands you’ll actually like.”
— Salon.com
“Through the ‘other members like’ listings [in Napster], it’s possible to discover a lot of new music. I moved from My Morning Jacket to Luna to Cat Power – a new discovery that I quickly bought into for ninety-nine cents per song.”
— Rolling Stone

“We appreciated the fact that [Napster UK]’s ‘Other members liked...’ feature reflects UK music tastes.”
— Music Ally
“[W]hile Amazon recommend- ations might remind users about a favorite song not heard recently, they did not help users expand their tastes in new directions... Users in our study thought that MediaUnbound was a more useful system than Amazon because it introduced them to new items they liked and thereby allowed them to broaden their musical tastes.”
— Kirsten Swearingen and Rashmi Sinha, “Interaction Design for Recommender Systems”