A great software plug-in shows us a glimpse of the future of suggested selling
If any of you haven't gotten into MP3's yet, now is the time. One f the most popular MP3 player software programs is Winamp. It has numerous plugins and skins that will let you change the sound quality of your player, change the look of your player or show complex waveforms that change with the music. While searching for plugins for Winamp, I stumbled across a plugin called Mediadome. The plugin features what looks to be some sort of lobby or nightclub and is filled with dancers that dance to the music you are playing a DJ and many browser windows which are mounted on the walls. You can update your dancers and also download new dance moves if you wish. The coolest thing about the program is that when you are using Winamp, it monitors which song you are playing and you can click on one of the browser windows on the wall to bring up the CD album from stores such as Amazon.com. Then, if you want to buy it, you can do so. So, while playing Ace of Bass, I clicked on the Amazon window and it brought up the price of the CD album that I was playing. In another window the Ace of Base official homepage appeared. I couldn't help but wonder how this could help artists and record labels and how this type of suggested selling could effect the web. Artists of the future might be able to live without the record label and use MP3's and services such as Mediadome to promote concert ticket sales. The service of suggestion selling might also work well on websites. It might work well with search engines so that if someone types in a keyword for a certain piece of software in a search engine and have a small window popup with the profile and price of the software from a seller. It will be interesting to see if this takes off in the future.
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