Welcome to TasteBroker.org

TasteBroker is an experimental service that will generate a portable representation of your taste data (in the form of an APML file) from various web sources.

APML from last.fm

If you are a last.fm user, you can get a representation of your music listening taste, in the form of an APML file. Simply use the webservice:

http://TasteBroker.org/apml/music/Your_last.fm_name

Some examples:

Try it yourself:

http://TasteBroker.org/apml/last.fm/

Note that it can take a while to generate your APML file since it requires a number of queries to last.fm to collect your taste data. We try to cache as much info as we can to make things quick, but if you have eclectic tastes, you might have to wait a minute or so.

APML from Pandora

If you are a Pandora user, you can get a representation of your music listening taste, in the form of an APML file. Simply use the webservice:

http://TasteBroker.org/apml/pandora/Your_Pandora_name

Some examples:

Try it yourself:

http://TasteBroker.org/apml/pandora/

Note that it can take a while to generate your APML file since it requires a number of queries to Pandora and last.fm to collect your taste data. We try to cache as much info as we can to make things quick, but if you have eclectic tastes, you might have to wait a minute or so.

APML from del.icio.us

If you are a del.icio.us user, you can get a representation of your web browsing taste, in the form of an APML file. Simply use the webservice:

http://TasteBroker.org/apml/web/Your_delicious_name

Some examples:

Try it yourself:

http://TasteBroker.org/apml/web/

What is this all about?

This is an experiment to see how easy it is to generate a useful APML file from existing web services.

We can combine this APML generator with other services that process APML. For instance Cluztr provides some Javascript that will turn an APML file into a tag cloud. For example, here's a tag cloud generated from my APML file:

There are also some usage stats.

History


TasteBroker.org v.5 - Powered by APML, Cluztr, Del.icio.us, Last.fm, Pandora and Sun Microsystems inc.
Send comments/feedback or complaints to Paul.Lamere@sun.com