Recommendation Is Here!

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We’ve all been waiting for improvements in the way that we connect to each other on Whyd. Whyd is building the filter for the best of the newest music on the web, and to do that we need to properly connect each music lover to their appropriate place in the fabric of our community.

The first step of those improvements comes today, with the launch of the first iteration of our Discovery section, which is broken down into four different parts:

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1. Similar to you: matching other Whyd music lovers depending on how similar their profile is to you based upon the bands you’ve added and other actions.

The more similar a person is, the better chance you will like the music they post, but you can also try to check out people’s pages who are not good matches, if you are in the mood to find something really unusual and new! 

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2. Featured: these are the Whyd community members who gives us some of their time to talk about their musical projects. All of them spend dangerous amounts of time seeking out the best of the newest music.

Featured music lovers include bloggers, DJs, curators, music collectives, webradio hosts, and much much more! 

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2. World Whyd Ranking: Your quick view to see who exactly is the most influential music lover on Whyd right now based upon recent activity and how well the Whyd community responds to the music they post. 

The ranking system is not meant to be definitive, but rather for the community to see exactly who is having the biggest impact on Whyd at the moment, so that they can connect and find great new music. If you are active enough on Whyd and share great tracks that people love, you should check back to see if you make it to the top! 

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4. Your Friends: An easy way to connect with Facebook to see your friends who are already on Whyd so you can check out their music too! Warning: Whyd does judge your friends by similarity, so follow at your own risk!  

As always, we need your extensive feedback to make sure that it works and that people are finding other cool music lovers! Please send us all of your thoughts and ideas. hello(at)whyd.com

And you can read about it on TechCrunch!!! 

18th March 2013

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