Pandora is online music streaming. I pick what I like and it creates a station based on that choice. Yahoo's is more restrictive in that you must have a different e-mail for each station. A small fee opens many opportunities. I've been on Yahoo long enough that it mostly picks stuff I like based on artist, album, genre and song title. Yahoo allows for a wide variety on a single station. Pandora selects music based on an artist or genre entered, then plays similar stuff on that station. Pandora allows the user to create multiple stations, one for every mood. Skipping songs is limited by licensing, with Yahoo that's all the skipping for the month (at least it used to be, may have changed). On Pandora skipping is limited per hour. I tested a couple of my favorite radio stations as well. Many now have online streaming to allow people to listen to the radio at their jobs without needing the radio at their desk. Useful as sometimes being in the basement or away from windows limits the radio stations available through the antenna.
Archive I can see as very useful for people researching who need primary documents that are out of print or perhaps too fragile for transfer or even handle. Being more into current items I didn't find anything terribly exciting to me, but when the books I like go out of print I'll be able to access them there. It will also be useful to me when my kids need primary resources for school projects.
Mango looks like a blast! I didn't get very far because I've not created an account, but what a positive way to teach people other languages. We're so caught up in this English thing. I'm taking a trip to Europe this fall so I hope to use Mango to learn some French and Italian and brush up on my Spanish before I go.
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