I've been on Last.FM since the days of it being Audioscrobbler, and I've loved it from the get-go. They've made remarkable strides since their beginning, though the social networking stuff they've focused on, at least to me, has been kind of silly. Music recommendations I can use, but the "friends" stuff is just trying to reinvent myspace. What the world needs now is not another myspace.
A corporate buyout makes me very disheartened, particularly from a big-media nasty like Viacom. One wonders how long things like the AudioScrobbler and Last.FM plugins will be allowed once the DRM-loving corporate-heads get behind this. I was randomly thinking today about not only how much I like having a device-independent listening statistics tracker like Last.Fm, but how much I depend on its continued existence. Here's crossing my fingers that the status quo remains. #!/ben -- bklaas "the Nokia770 skin guy" http://www.last.fm/user/bklaas/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33183 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
