Ian Clarke's - Irish blogger, innovator and entrepreneur

Here's one Irish blogger - Ian Clarke - who certainly deserves to be causing ripples in the boggersphere and registering on Planet of the Blogs.

I remember reading about Clarke, originally from Meath, during the days when his Freenet project was getting so much publicity. I'd since lost track of him but judging by his blog he hasn't been idle. In fact he seems to be a restless innovator -

I’m always coming up with ideas for new projects, I think the ratio between ideas I would like to implement and ideas I actually get around to implementing is about 15:1.

Sounds like a similar ratio to my own! Now if only I had the genius engineering skills of Clarke maybe I could actually get around to putting meat on the bones of all those conceptual business plans ;-)

Ian's latest brilliant idea (and crucially, execution!) is Indy a free "music discovery program that learns what you like, and plays more of it". The concept is deceptively simple and probably sounds familiar but its the twist of pulling the music directly from the independent artist's website which I think is the stroke of genius here.

And the launch is already getting BoingBoing'ed!

Comments

[Colm]

Kinda been done already with Yahoo's! Launchcast.

[James Corbett]

Well I stopped using Launchcast some time back so maybe I missed that feature but does Launchcast pull tunes off artist's servers as well?

[Colm]

Well, the whole collaborative filtering music thing is covered by Launchcast and I've definitely heard of last fm's (??)functionality that allows songs to be sourced from the artist's Web site.

I don't mean to knock it, I think it's great. But it's not innovative.