Pandora and Laszlo
Thomas Conrad the CTO of Pandora - just made it clear:
Monday, August 29, 2005
Pandora and OpenLaszlo“Our just-now-launched music discovery service, Pandora, is an OpenLaszlo application. It wouldn’t be fair to finish up our launch without a tip of the hat to the amazing Laszlo team and open source community.
Eight months ago when we sat down to figure out how were were going to deliver a compelling zero-install discovery and listening experience across Windows, Mac, and Linux in record time we considered everything you can imagine: plain old HTML, AJAX, Flex, OpenLaszlo to name just a few. In the end, Laszlo was the clear winner on all fronts. Mature, reliable, and the perfect tool for the job. This outcome was only remarkable in that the decision was made by some of the most capable AJAX developers on the planet. I’ll have more to say about Laszlo in another post, but for now I just want to publicly say thanks to the great team at Lazslo. Pandora wouldn’t be Pandora without you.”
August 29th, 2005 at 2:25 pm
Hey Marc, we’re loving Laszlo and so are our listeners. Perfect solution for us; it just works. Would love to connect and hear what you think about Pandora — drop me a note, tconrad-at-gmail-dot-com.
Tom
CTO @ Pandora
September 1st, 2005 at 7:54 am
You are *so* plugged in. I went to visit Pandora due to your link and reference to their RIA front-end. Thought I’d check out the tech and stayed for the essence of Pandora: the music and the way it serendipitously slides in analogous tunes.
Did a post since I was so enamored: http://borsch.typepad.com/ctd/2005/09/pandora_your_pe.html
By the way, tons ‘o people are referencing Scoble’s ‘recommendation’ that this should be a thick client. I’m listening to Pandora while typing this at work on my Thinkpad. Last night I was typing my blog post in front of my Powermac with Cinema Display and great speaker system. Later last night was on my Linux powered laptop. The constant theme/interface? Firefox.
My challenge to anyone pitching thick clients is this question: when was the last time you headed over to Fry’s, MicroCenter or CompUSA to browse the shrink-wrapped software aisles? The answer almost always is a humma, humma and a reluctant acknowledgment that “NOT FOR A LONG TIME” is their answer.
August 15th, 2006 at 9:12 am
Pandora looks great. However I’ve used Laszlo in the past and for significantly sized application it is unmanagable to maintain.