MyEar

The MyEar music recommender enables users to listen to personalized podcasting feeds. MyEar is also realized with the aid of the Personal Reader Framework and provides a Personalization Service which searches the web for podcasting feeds that go with the users taste in music and combines items of this feed to produce a personalized podcasting feed. In a slightly other way the MyEar Personalization Service is used by the MyNews application which aims the creation of personalized news feeds.

In detail, the MyEar Personalization Service utilizes the Google API to search for RSS 2.0 feeds which are potentially adequate and then performs postprocessing by analyzing the metadata stored within the feeds to identify items that should be included into the resulting podcasting feed. The MyEar Syndication Service, which implements the application logic of MyEar, accesses the User Modeling Service of the Personal Reader Framework in order to store songs the user likes or to determine playlists of the user’s friends etc.