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Re:Official UK singles chart to include streaming services by iamben on Monday June 23, 2014 @07:45AM (#7931361)
I'm looking forward to the first "How I gamed the UK charts with Mechanical Turk" blog post.
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Re:Official UK singles chart to include streaming services by orcdork on Monday June 23, 2014 @09:01AM (#7931665)
How we growth hacked our band and pivoted into the top spot.
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Re:Official UK singles chart to include streaming services by tobias__ on Monday June 23, 2014 @10:03AM (#7931969)
This might interest you - http://www.itnews.com.au/News/362462,hacker-uses-bots-to-top...
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Re:Official UK singles chart to include streaming services by mathnode on Monday June 23, 2014 @06:18AM (#7931109)
We should probably just work on a procedural media algorithm and call it "pop cache"; but it's not really a cache it just generates the same garbage over and over again with slight iterations and adapts to current trends in news, politocs, social economics etc. This would save a ton of I/O. Once again, computer science is the ring master for the Bread and Circus.

Just automating Max Martin really.

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Re:Official UK singles chart to include streaming services by iamben on Monday June 23, 2014 @07:39AM (#7931332)
"Just automating Max Martin really."

Can I invest?! The returns on that one would be phenomenal... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Martin

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Re:Official UK singles chart to include streaming services by smackfu on Monday June 23, 2014 @09:00AM (#7931661)
A while back, the US ones added Youtube video plays to the Hot 100, and the Harlem Shake immediately went to the top of the charts: http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1549388/baauers-harle...
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Re:Official UK singles chart to include streaming services by Kiro on Monday June 23, 2014 @05:44AM (#7931020)
How does Spotify deal with fraud? What prevents me from just putting my own song on repeat and cash in/manipulate the charts?
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Re:Official UK singles chart to include streaming services by johneth on Monday June 23, 2014 @06:05AM (#7931073)
Towards the bottom of the article: "Each track will have to be played for 30 seconds before it counts as one stream. To avoid fans "gaming" the system, only 10 plays will be counted per user, per day."
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Re:Official UK singles chart to include streaming services by andyhmltn on Monday June 23, 2014 @06:02AM (#7931064)
The same system I would think is stopping you from clicking your own adsense sites
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Re:Official UK singles chart to include streaming services by sleepyhead on Monday June 23, 2014 @06:54AM (#7931205)
So Google stops Spotify fraud?
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Re:Official UK singles chart to include streaming services by andyhmltn on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @04:02AM (#7942745)
No. Of course not. But it was an example of how that kind of stuff can be stopped. They are both PP* on user published content.
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Re:Official UK singles chart to include streaming services by SixSigma on Monday June 23, 2014 @09:57AM (#7931928)
"Because it's really important for the kids to know who makes the most money each week."

Rik - The People's Poet

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