{"id":287,"date":"2012-07-22T17:26:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T17:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcusroberts.eu\/blog\/?p=287"},"modified":"2014-02-09T20:22:21","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T20:22:21","slug":"thisismyjam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcusroberts.eu\/blog\/thisismyjam\/","title":{"rendered":"ThisIsMyJam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Is My Jam is a social music sharing and music discovery service. So what, you might think &#8211; we\u2019ve got last.fm and Spotify, and the Ping thing in iTunes, because of the\u00a0rubbish nature of the Apple\u00a0empire, that nobody uses.<\/p>\n<p>But This Is My Jam is quite different. It invites you to share <em>just one song<\/em> at any given time, and that becomes your \u201cjam\u201d for up to seven days. When you visit the service, you see a list of your friends \u201cjams\u201d, and hitting play on one of them starts playing them in sequence.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It is like internet radio where the playlist is determined by your friends and their choice of \u201cjam\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><em>(I should, at this point, apologise for being my age and saying things like \u201cjam\u201d in public in the context of music &#8211; if it helps, imagine I am saying \u201chey pop-pickers, that is a groovy 45\u201d instead.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t know the service, you can find out more about it and <a href=\"http:\/\/thisismyjam.com\/\">sign up for the beta here<\/a>. Or find a friend on Twitter who is using it, and they can invite you in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Is My Jam is a social music sharing and music discovery service. 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