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This week was a big week for AdaptiveBlue. They launched their auto SmartLink product on Monday. AjiSignal had the opportunity to participate in the beta testing period for this new offering from AdaptiveBlue. Working with Alex and Fraser from AdaptiveBlue has been really cool and a lot of fun.

Here at AjiSignal feel that SmartLinks really bring a new experience to furthering discovery and knowledge of a musical artist. What SmartLinks do is take the traditional link and turn it into a conduit to relevant information about (in our case) an artist.

Almost everyday we highlight a new artist from a major music mecca around the world. In each highlight article we have links to that artist’s “page” on various places on the web like Last.fm, MySpace, Amazon, and iTunes. What SmartLinks do is pull all that information together automatically and display it in a nice, neat pane of relevant content. The great thing about the NEW SmartLinks are that all the work is done for me.

After installing the simple script from AdaptiveBlue all I have to do use a link to an artist’s page on Last.fm or their album on Amazon, and a SmartLink is created with that traditional link. So simple, and it couldn’t be slicker!

Examples are all over AjiSignal. The little blue boxes next to an artist link are what you want to click on to experience the SL pane.

What AdaptiveBlue is doing adds so much value to musicians. :) Enabling readers to find more info on an artist is so, so key in today’s music landscape. As SmartLinks evolve, and further drill down into serving up more relevant info, they will AUTOMATICALLY make a richer learning experience about ANY artist. That, is cool. Nice job AdaptiveBlue!

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