Amazon Takes On Wikipedia With Editable Music Wiki
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008Wikipedia is an undeniably helpful resource for researching bands, with fairly accurate data that tends to be updated in near real time. Amazon hopes the same sort of thing will happen on its new SoundUnwound site, which borrows a page from Wikipedia’s playbook by allowing users to edit information about any band, label, album or song.
Amazon's real problem is the catalog entries. The list is endless. The entries are flaky as to when they show up in search results (depending entirely on the particular order of your search terms). Thus there are often duplicate…
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