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eMusic Goes Web 2.0: Adds Content from Flickr, YouTube, and Wikipedia
Today, eMusic launched a major redesign of its site. The new design not only looks a lot fresher, but eMusic now also draws in information from Wikipedia, videos from YouTube, and photos from Flickr. EMusic is the second-largest online music retailer after iTunes, but it often doesn't quite get the coverage newer music sites like Pandora or Last.fm get.
Last.fm Re-Design Goes Live, With New Lick of Paint (Literally)
Today online music service last.fm released the new design they've been working on since May. At first glance it looks quite different to the Facebook-like UI that we saw in the beta in June. However as we noted in our review of the beta last month, the beta UI was much criticized - so the fresh lick of paint is probably due to that user feedback (and, as you can see in the screenshot below, the new header literally looks like a lick of paint!).
Last.fm Starts Paying Royalties to Unsigned Bands
Online music service Last.fm today announced that it will start paying out royalties to unsigned and independent bands that upload their music to last.fm. Artists will earn royalties whenever their music is played on-demand, or on Last.fm's streaming radio service. Last.fm had first announced this in January, but it took until today for Last.fm to officially start up its Artist Royalty Program.
Collaborative Filtering: Lifeblood of The Social Web
Collaborative Filtering (Wikipedia definition) is a mechanism used to filter large amounts of information by spreading the process of filtering among a large group of people. Unlike mainstream media where there is either one or very few editors setting guidelines, the collaboratively filtered social web can have infinitely many editors and gets better as you increase the number of participants.
Last.fm Launches API 2.0
The popular social music service Last.fm features an API that lets anyone build their own programs using Last.fm data, whether those programs are on the web, on the desktop, or on a mobile phone. In the past, we've listed some of the best mashups built using this API from MusicPortl to LastGraph to Yahoo Pipes and more, but now we're anxiously awaiting the arrival of a whole new crop of applications. Why's that? Because Last.fm has just launched a new version of their public API. Yes, there's now a Last.fm API 2.0.
Last.fm Re-design: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
My favorite online music service Last.fm is currently ungoing a semi-public re-design, available to Last.fm subscribers ($3 per month) at beta.last.fm. Bearing in mind that last.fm is now owned by mega media company CBS, it is great to see last.fm continuing to evolve fast. In this post we review the new design and see if it's ready for primetime. The short answer is no. The beta feedback so far has been mixed and comparisons to Facebook have been common.
LastGraph - Visualize Your Last.fm History
Last.fm is a great music service that keeps track of your listening habits. Though you can view stats such as last played tracks, top artists, or most played songs with just words and numbers, it can be limiting in so many ways. We're huge fans of visualization tools, so wouldn't it be cool if you could grab a visual history of your Last.fm stats? LastGraph is just the service for the job.
last100 Competition: Name Your Top 5 Digital Lifestyle Products, Win a Computer!
ReadWriteWeb network blog last100, which focuses on digital lifestyle products and services, is currently running a competition where you could win a top of the line HP HDX Dragon Entertainment Notebook valued at around $5,000.
To be in to win, leave a comment on last100 listing your top five digital lifestyle products and/or services.
Can Web Apps Get Too Drunk on Aggregation?
There's a mind-numbing amount of conversations and transactions going on around the internet these days and quality aggregation of content is a very hot trend. When is more too much, though? Are some aggregation services shooting themselves in the foot by sacrificing quality for breadth? Is this madness and does it need to stop?
Call it feature creep, call it "so meta it hurts," it appears that a growing class of websites run the risk of aggregating too much. Maybe that's not the case, but there are some issues and we're going to write about them. We'll also offer collected examples of sites that take one strategy or another - you can let us know if our own aggregation here is too much.
WikiFM - Great Idea, Poor Execution
Recently, a new Wikipedia mashup came on the scene - WikiFM, this one a mashup of Wikipedia and popular music streaming service Last.fm. The mashup lets you listen to Last.fm via a player loaded in a frame on the right while the Wikipedia page for the artist or band is loaded in the frame on the left. The idea itself is great, but the execution of the mashup leaves a lot to be desired.
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