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Last.fm going through changes (prefixmag.com)

Thu, 22 May 2008 17:19:26 GMT

Last.fm users who pay a $3 per month subscription fee are being invited to test out a new beta version ...

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New Last.fm beta - unlimited listening service (TechDigest)

Thu, 22 May 2008 14:38:50 GMT

Last.fm is running a beta of a new subscription service it plans to launch that will offer unlimited access to its vast catalogue of music. Currently the social music site allows users to listen to the same tracks three times before you can only to listen to them via the Last.fm radio and it looks like the new subscription service will remove this bar...

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Last.fm Gives Subscribers First Taste of New Features (Mashable)

Wed, 21 May 2008 13:53:31 GMT

The folks at popular music community Last.fm have decided to share the bleeding edge features with the most loyal users: their subscribers. If you're a paying costumer, head on here to join the beta program, and experience the upcoming stuff before others do. As far as the features in this beta go, Last.fm has got [...]

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Last.fm starts rollout of expanded features... (The Daily Swarm)

Wed, 21 May 2008 16:44:11 GMT

As the first anniversary of its $280 million acquisition by CBS draws near, Last.fm has unveiled a new beta version of its social music site to current subscribers with a new, more powerful design and, eventually, an extended subscription option. The site’s little-publicized music subscription service currently costs $3/month. In its current iteration, the basic subscription removes ads, shows...

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Last.fm Relaunch Preview: New Design, Player, Podcasts (paidContent:UK)

Wed, 21 May 2008 12:45:39 GMT

You're seeing it here first… CBS Interactive's ( NYSE: CBS ) Last.fm social music site is embarking on a wholesale reboot in a move that will pare down the design and add podcasts for a "next-generation" service. The re-engineering process is currently in beta test , available to paid-up subscribers, and includes a brand new look that is not altogether unlike Facebook, come to think of it....

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Building the Next Last.fm (Last.fm – the Blog)

Wed, 21 May 2008 11:14:02 GMT

Since 2002, Last.fm's determined team of music lovers has been on a mission to make online music easier, better and more discoverable. We’re still working as hard as ever halfway through 2008, laying the foundations for a next-generation Last.fm. We’ve modernised the Audioscrobbler engine that powers the site, and have been exploring new ideas aligned with the different ways music on...

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Musicrambler.org - Last.fm and Flickr Mashup (KillerStartups.com)

Tue, 20 May 2008 17:11:00 GMT

What it does MusicRambler is an interesting and easy to use mashup of Last.fm, Flickr and Google Maps that displays various images and events related to the music that you are listening to. To get started, just enter your Last.fm ID into the MusicRambler box and it will then connect to your Last.fm account to determine what song you are currently playing. Once MusicRambler knows...

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Site review: BookRabbit - Last.fm for readers? (E-consultancy News Blog)

Tue, 20 May 2008 15:46:00 GMT

BookRabbit, launched last week, is a new website which aims to do for books what Last.fm has done for music on the web.

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Social Nets And Big Media: A Dependent Relationship, Says VC Klein (paidContent:UK)

Thu, 22 May 2008 10:53:16 GMT

Reuters has gone big on Index Ventures partner Saul Klein this week. The former Skype VP who, as a VC, has invested in the likes of Last.fm, OpenX and Moo, appeared at the newswire's Paris summit with words of wisdom on the value of social networks to traditional media. Bottom line: it's a relationship based on dependence… "There are social media networks that have come from nowhere in the...

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Thursday Tech Tip: Make your own multimedia timeline ([MobileRatty] Lattest Articles)

Thu, 22 May 2008 10:37:00 GMT

Dipidy is a service that allows you to create your own timeline, or just to scope out other people's. After creating an account, you have the option of adding various feeds, from Flickr to Last.fm to...

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@ Chinwag: Making big statements with social media | PDA: The Digital Content Blog | guardian.co.uk (GerdsPresentations)

Wed, 21 May 2008 04:29:09 GMT

Really nice event I spoke at here in London last night: @ Chinwag: Making big statements with social media | PDA: The Digital Content Blog | guardian.co.uk. Futurist and author Gerd Leonhard had a good take on the question of who owns user-generated content. Sites like MySpace and Last.fm do produce content, he said, but it's not the music and the video - it's the clicks and the community. "We...

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TuneGlue (Sore Eyes)

Tue, 20 May 2008 22:58:21 GMT

TuneGlue is yet another service that aims to remix usage data from the likes of Last.fm to reveal patterns and relationships between the acts we like. I can't say that it provided me with any startling revelations when I fed it the names of some of my favourite acts, but the graphical user interface used [...]

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TuneGlue Sticks To Finding Music (http://www.CelebrityVideoTube.com)

Tue, 20 May 2008 18:46:40 GMT

Newsday TuneGlue delves into Last.fm to find relationships between bands, which may reveal new music you may like, or a band you've forgotten over the years. TuneGlue pulls its music data out of Read the full article here

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TuneGlue Sticks To Finding Music (WebPro News)

Tue, 20 May 2008 16:46:49 GMT

The clean, clickable interface of TuneGlue delves into Last.fm to find relationships between bands, which may reveal new music you may like, or a band you've forgotten over the years. TuneGlue pulls its music data out of Last.fm and presents it onscreen as a clickable node. Enter the name of a band into the search field, and it appears as a spot. Clicking the spot opens a menu of choices,...

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BBC Sound Index, free content & copyright (qwghlm.co.uk)

Tue, 20 May 2008 13:51:20 GMT

The BBC's Sound Index project is a very interesting (and according to my friend in the technology unit, fairly quietly-kept secret) site. It pulls data from a variety of sites including Last.fm, iTunes and MySpace (with permission) and works out who the hottest artists right now are, with the ability to recommend you stuff based [...]

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Sound Index (FeedMyApp)

Tue, 20 May 2008 12:31:28 GMT

Top 1000 artists & tracks The Sound Index is a massive index of the hottest bands and tracks that are being talked about on the internet right now. Every six hours the Sound Index crawls some of the biggest music sites on the internet – Bebo, MySpace, Last.FM, iTunes, Google and YouTube – to find out what people are writing about, listening to, watching, downloading and logging on to. It then...

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BBC's Sound Index is good, but we won't get the data (TechCrunch UK)

Tue, 20 May 2008 10:18:55 GMT

The BBC's SoundIndex, currently in beta, lists the top 1,000 artists based on discussions crawled from Bebo, Last.fm, Google Groups, iTunes, MySpace and YouTube. The top five bands according to SoundIndex right now are Coldplay, Rihanna, The Ting Tings, Duffy and Mariah Carey , but the index is refreshed every six hours and you can [...]

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Crenked Out! Iminta (Crenk.com)

Mon, 19 May 2008 13:29:06 GMT

Iminta synchronizes with content sharing and discovery sites YouTube, Flickr, Digg, del.icio.us, reddit, Yelp, Webshots, Google Reader, last.fm, Twitter, and more. Previously, Aaron created Epitonic.com, one of the Web’s first editorial mp3 download sites. Epitonic was funded by CNET Networks and later sold to Palm Pictures. Aaron then helped CNET Networks launch their highly successful [...]...

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The Sound Index (PSFK Trend: PSFK)

Mon, 19 May 2008 13:24:24 GMT

The Sound Index from the BBC is a ‘buzz’ index of bands and tracks that are being talked about on the web. Every six hours the Sound Index uses IBM's Semantic Super Computing to crawl sites like Bebo, MySpace, Last.FM, iTunes, Google and YouTube to find out what people are writing about, listening to, watching, [...]

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10 Best Practices of Online Music Promotion (Online Fandom)

Mon, 19 May 2008 10:17:45 GMT

Get your music streaming : If you want people to get into your music, they need to be able to hear it. Get your entire catalogue up at Last.fm, load those songs on MySpace, make sure iMeem and iLike have your tunes, find out what services people are using in the regions you want to [...]

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