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0 Last.fm Visual Radio

I’m happy to announce a new and improved version of Last.fm radio on the web.

We’ve been cooking this one in the Last.fm labs for a...

  • Source: last.fm (Company Blog)
  • Date: May 6, 2009
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0 Radio Subscriptions

Today we are making the changes to the radio that were previously announced here.

This means that from today, listeners to Last.fm Radio outside of...

  • Source: last.fm (Company Blog)
  • Date: Apr 22, 2009
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0 Mapreduce Bash Script

One night at the pub we discussed whether one could replace Hadoop (a massive and comprehensive implementation of Mapreduce) with a single bash...

  • Source: last.fm (Company Blog)
  • Date: Apr 6, 2009
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0 Last.fm Radio Announcement

READ THE FOLLOWUP POST: Radio announcement revisited

Today we’re announcing an upcoming change to the way Last.fm Radio works in some parts of...

  • Source: last.fm (Company Blog)
  • Date: Mar 30, 2009
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0 Radio Announcement Revisited

Since our announcement last Tuesday about starting to charge users €3.00 per month for listening to the radio in countries other than the USA, UK and...

  • Source: last.fm (Company Blog)
  • Date: Mar 30, 2009
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0 Introducing Boffin: Last.fm's music knowledge meets your local mp3 collection

Sometimes the endless rows of music in my media player leave me at a loss. I have a music collection that I’ve spent years lovingly crafting;...

  • Source: last.fm (Company Blog)
  • Date: Mar 13, 2009
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0 Hadoop User Group UK - 14th of April

In August last year we organized the first Hadoop User Group in the UK. We liked it so much we’re doing another one on the 14th of April....

  • Source: last.fm (Company Blog)
  • Date: Mar 2, 2009
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0 "Techcrunch are full of shit"

On Friday night a technology blog called Techcrunch posted a vicious and completely false rumour about us: that Last.fm handed data to the RIAA so...

  • Source: last.fm (Company Blog)
  • Date: Feb 23, 2009
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0 Closing in on clean metadata: artist and track spelling auto-correction is here

Ever since I joined Last.fm back in 2005, my long-suffering coworkers have had to put up with endless grumbles about the state of the metadata on our...

  • Source: last.fm (Company Blog)
  • Date: Jan 29, 2009
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0 Last.fm on Android

For the past 6 months we’ve been on a mission to let you experience Last.fm where you want, when you want. We realize that not everyone has a...

  • Source: last.fm (Company Blog)
  • Date: Jan 24, 2009
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0 Maptastic Events

Right before the holidays we put up a small events demo on playground to play with the idea that it might be useful to see relevant events on a...

  • Source: last.fm (Company Blog)
  • Date: Jan 14, 2009
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  • Comments: 0
0 Hack Day 2008

A week or so ago, on Sunday 14th December, we held our first open Hack Day, giving developers a chance to show off what they could build in a day with...

  • Source: last.fm (Company Blog)
  • Date: Dec 22, 2008
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0 Last.fm on the Sonos

We’ve been going gadget crazy for last couple of months, as we work towards bringing you the Last.fm experience not just on your desktop but wherever...

  • Source: last.fm (Company Blog)
  • Date: Dec 22, 2008
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0 Last.fm Best of 2008

While other annual retrospectives are based on editors’ picks or sales data, the Last.fm Best of 2008 list is based entirely on what the Last.fm...

  • Source: last.fm (Company Blog)
  • Date: Dec 3, 2008
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0 Hack Day

Back in June when we announced our new API, we were bowled over with the positive response. Hundreds of developers have been engaged in discussions...

  • Source: last.fm (Company Blog)
  • Date: Nov 26, 2008
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0 Simplify 1.2 for iPhone Scrobbles

Just a quick note for those of you with an iPhone. Our friends at Simplify Media have just released a new version of their iPhone app that includes...

  • Source: last.fm (Company Blog)
  • Date: Nov 24, 2008
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0 Artist Royalty Program (Slight Return)

With the Artist Royalty Program we wanted to solve a crucial problem. Since we started in 2002 we had licensed music from various ‘content...

  • Source: last.fm (Company Blog)
  • Date: Nov 7, 2008
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  • Comments: 0
0 Steerable Recommendations on Playground

If you regularly check your recommendations page like I do, you surely know that there are tons of artists waiting there to be discovered. In an...

  • Source: last.fm (Company Blog)
  • Date: Nov 3, 2008
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  • Comments: 0
0 Weekend Web Roundup

At Last.HQ we like to make a fuss over big new features and applications. But not every improvement to Last.fm is on the scale of an iPhone app or a...

  • Source: last.fm (Company Blog)
  • Date: Oct 17, 2008
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0 The Internship Experience (tm)

I recently finished a 3 month internship for Last.fm in the data junkie department. Officially I was a Java intern. That means turning coffee into...

  • Source: last.fm (Company Blog)
  • Date: Oct 13, 2008
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  • Comments: 0
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