{"id":1665,"date":"2008-12-31T23:55:20","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T14:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=1665"},"modified":"2008-12-31T23:55:20","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T14:55:20","slug":"zmp-co-developed-brandnew-tune-recommendation-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/zmp-co-developed-brandnew-tune-recommendation-service\/","title":{"rendered":"ZMP co-developed Brandnew Tune Recommendation Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1668\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/zap.jpg\" alt=\"ZAP's logo\" width=\"106\" height=\"34\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1670\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/tmu.jpg\" alt=\"TMU's Logo\" width=\"262\" height=\"45\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/miuro_yellow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1675\" title=\"miuro_yellow\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/miuro_yellow.jpg\" alt=\"miuro_yellow\" width=\"128\" height=\"110\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA Tokyo-based robot manufacturing venture <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmp.co.jp\">ZMP [J]<\/a> (pronounced as Zett-Em-Pee) developed a new tune recommendation service jointly with <a href=\"http:\/\/krectmt3.tmit.ac.jp\/~takama\/index-e.html\">Dr. Yasufumi Takama<\/a>, associate professor at Faculty of System Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University.<br \/>\nZMP is well-known as manufacter of &#8220;Miuro&#8221; or\u00a0a small robot on two wheels that can play tunes and follow you around the house.\u00a0\u00a0 Refer to <a href=\"http:\/\/yokotechspace.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/miuro-japanese-music-robot.html\">Tech Planet&#8217;s report<\/a> for more details\u00a0about Miuro.\u00a0\u00a0 Dr. Takama is the lead of studying recommendation engine technology in Japan.<br \/>\nZMP&#8217;s recommendation service distributes to every\u00a0 Miuro user the tune list that he or she prefers, which is generated based on the history of tunes he or she played ever.<br \/>\nZMP&#8217;s president Hisashi Taniguchi says, he would like\u00a0the company to be the music concierge by improving the service usability much more.\u00a0 (quoted from Sankei Shimbun)<br \/>\nTune recommendation service is not a new idea, one of the famous examples is Genius introduced on Apple&#8217;s iTunes.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In order to use the Genius feature, we are forced to turn on our Mac and launch the application, which may cause the users to feel tiresome for standing by.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ZMP&#8217;s brandnew service takes similar technology approach to that of\u00a0 Genius, but the point is we need no longer have any PC or Mac to listen in favourite tunes.<br \/>\nZMP plans to sell its SDK\u00a0to cellphone carriers and content providers, and it will cost around USD 25,000 to 50,000.<\/p>\n<h3>See Also:<\/h3>\n<p>ZMP&#8217;s Press Release:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmp.co.jp\/data\/Presentation_20081217.pdf\">Tokyo Metropolitan University and ZMP jointly studied the new-generation tune-list distibution service based on Robotics and Web Intelligence technologies [J]<\/a><!-- google_ad_section_end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tokyo-based robot manufacturing venture ZMP [J] (pronounced as Zett-Em-Pee) developed a new tune recommendation service jointly with Dr. Yasufumi Takama, associate professor at Faculty of System Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University. ZMP is well-known as manufacter of &#8220;Miuro&#8221; or\u00a0a small robot on two wheels that can play tunes and follow you around the house.\u00a0\u00a0 Refer&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/zmp-co-developed-brandnew-tune-recommendation-service\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ZMP co-developed Brandnew Tune Recommendation Service<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,23],"tags":[2341,3083,3732,4251],"class_list":["post-1665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-new-service","tag-miuro","tag-recommendation","tag-tokyo-metropolitan-university","tag-zmp","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}