Interesting point: I’d assumed that the display was based on some sort of post frequency metric, so that the bands would be changing periodically…I haven’t checked often, but it does look like the band selection is static, which is rather dull.

One thought on “powered by hype machine:” if this (is|will be) a dynamic feature, the code that is identifying the tracks (important as attribution is often unclear in posts) and doing the popularity ranking may be (or be derived from) hypem.com’s code.

Given that pretty much everybody from both companies is on tumblr, one of them may weigh in, as well…

via yvynyl:

What does this mean? ’Powered by Hype Machine’? Has Tumblr partnered up with HypeM? Are they just using HypeM to draw in this data? Is this an ad? How can I look at more besides Bloc Party, Ting Tings and MGMT on the Explore page?