Tag: Last FM
Last.fm music service comes to Vodafone
Vodafone has announced that it’s done a worldwide deal with Last.fm to bring scrobbling and social networking features to its customers’ mobile handsets.
Initially available on several Nokia handsets, including the N95, N96, N78 and 6210, with other handsets being added soon, the application will allow access to Last.fm’s social music features and online music profile…
Last.fm mashup maps every artist ever
This beautiful cloud represents the entirety of music. Every single artist tracked by Last.fm is marked as a point on the map, and ‘similar’ artists are connected by a grey line. The size of each point reflects the popularity of the artist, and different colours represent different genres.
It’s the creation of Budapest University PhD candidate Nepusz Tamas, who hammered Last.FM’s servers for over a week with a request every five seconds. Unfortunately, the only way to interact with the map is to pinpoint your favourite bands, and you can’t zoom in, but it’s still a beautiful representation of the world’s listening habits.
Reconstructing the structure of the world-wide music scene with Last.fm (via Listening Post)
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SHINY VIDEO PREVIEW: 3's INQ1 Facebook phone
Woot! In between liveblogging the announcement from INQ, 3 and Facebook this morning, Zara managed to get her hands on the phone itself for a bit of alone-time. The result is the video above, where you can see the menu system and contact list in quite some detail. The problem is, now I want one even more.
INQ1
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Last.fm previews new Sigur Rós album ahead of release
A web 2.0 ‘try before you buy’ if you like with Last.fm offering the entire Sigur Ros album for free for the two weeks prior to release…
Mobbler: scrobble tracks from your Nokia to your last.fm profile
There’s a new application in town specially designed for all you scrobbilicious last.fm-aholics out there but before you get too excited, you’ll need a Nokia series 60 phone for it to work.
For those uneducated in the ways of last.fm, what you need to know is that it’s a damn fine internet radio service that builds up a profile of what you listen to – through a process known as “scrobbling” – and recommends other artists and songs according to your tastes and it does it with alarming accuracy too.
Naturally, the more you scrobble, the more detailed your last.fm profile becomes and the more you love the music it suggests. Capiche?So, some clever chaps out there have designed a way for you to scrobble on the hoof with an application called “Mobbler” – a mobile phone scrobbler…
Wiki.FM – Wikpedia meets Last.fm and a whole lot of lost time
Mash-ups are a truly wonderful thing. In the first place, no one’s going to bother starting with two websites that nobody likes, so you’re onto a winner from the start.
But the question remains, is the result greater than the sum of its parts or instead the bastard child of a drunken one night stand, and Wiki.FM seems to have firmly split the vote.
This latest musical mash-up combines the hugely popular internet radio site Last.fm with the hub of semi-dubious information that is Wikipedia…
Last.fm Plus application goes live on Facebook
One of the most hotly-awaited Facebook apps was the one by music service Last.fm, which went live last week (you can add it to your profile by clicking here). However, users have been grumbling about bugs, missing features or simply that it isn’t living up to their expectations.
CBS to buy Last.fm for $280 million
If you can’t beat ’em, buy ’em. That’s increasingly the strategy being adopted by Big Media companies grappling with the implications of Web 2.0. Hot news today is that CBS is about to buy UK-based personalised radio service Last.fm for an impressive $280 million.
10 Music 2.0 services that'll change your listening habits forever
Let’s get one thing straight. The internet isn’t killing music, any more than home taping did back in the 1980s. Yes, CD sales are on the slide. Yes, people are still using peer-to-peer download services to trouser free music, despite the threat of legal action from the music industry. And yes, it’s possible that a whole generation of teenagers now believe music isn’t something you pay for.
Wii is more Web 2.0 friendly than the PS3
You might remember a couple of recent posts looking at how well the Wii and PS3’s web browsers cope with Web 2.0 sites. Well, Games Digest now has a unified megapost blending the two tests to see who’s best.
