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Spotify og Facebook
0De siste dagene har Facebook lansert et nytt utseende og noen nye tjenester. Ikke alle har fått dem enda, men alle vil fortløpende bli oppdatert.
I går annonserte Facebook sitt samarbeid med Spotify, og allerede i dag fikk jeg aktivert funksjonaliteten. Spotify publiserer lenker til all musikken jeg spiller på min Wall i Facebook. Nyttig? Eller vil de fleste av mine venner skjule min “musikkprofil”, akkurat som de har gjort med min “treningsprofil” fra Endomondo?
Tanken er god, jeg får se hva mine venner lytter på og får impulser til ny musikk jeg kanskje liker. Allikevel tror jeg personlig at Facebook er inne på et feilspor når de prøver å høste all data om oss ute på de forskjellige tjenestene på Internett. Dette gjør Facebook for at brukerne skal tilbringe mer tid inne på nettstedet og eksponeres for mer av deres reklame. Jeg liker ikke tanken på at de samler inn så mye data om meg, men samtidig har min musikkprofil vært offentlig tilgjengelig gjennom Last.fm i årevis allerede. Kanskje deaktiverer jeg snart igjen den nye sammenkoblingen mellom Facebook og Spotify, men foreløpig er den på. Sammenkoblingen kan du enkelt skru av, altså at Spotify skal publisere hver eneste sang du hører på. Du skal jo kunne høre på Justin Bieber i skjul! I Spotify gå til Edit →Preferences, under Facebook, deaktiver valget Get personal recommendations by sending music you play to Facebook’s Open Graph.
How to dig your own grave
0Techcrunch has a very interesting read today: Deny This, Last.fm. Not that I would have anything to hide, and I have already stopped using the Last.fm service. And that for a very good reason: Last.fm chose to split their userbase in two: 1st class users and 2nd class users. The 1st class users are free riders, while the 2nd class users have to play for the fun. As one that had been defined as a 2nd class user, I simply decided to stop using Last.fm.
Update: There are always two sides of a story, also to this one. Guardian last night posted a link to Last.fm’ answer, that was posted in their forum.
Is there any music service that can import my listening habits (data), so that I can finally delete my Last.fm account? And my other big question is, how many users have Last.fm lost on these two decissions? It must be many, and perhaps this is the end of Last.fm?
Thank you for all the fish, and …
0I am for now a happy Spotify user. Thuesday 24 March Last.fm announced that listening to Last.fm Radio will require a subscription of €3.00 per month. My first thought was fair enough, they have to earn money to pay the license fee. But then hang on a minute, what else did they write in this blog entry? In the United States, United Kingdom and Germany, nothing will change. Yes, that means that the service stays for free for users from these three countries. That is not something I can or will tolerate. They have defined their users in to two groups: First class users and second class users. First class users get a free ride, that the second class users have to pay. As I live in Norway, I’m defined as a second class user. I guess that the leaders of Last.fm must have been smoking their socks, if they think that they will get away with this. Let darwinsm deal with them (read: finance crise), they have already sent of several of their employees. Now they can close their company.
Besides this, a post in one of the Last.fm forums adds a couple of things:
- The old API to stream music will disappear in a few weeks. Unless I’m missing something, that implies that all clients (official and third party) will stop working, and upgrading them is required to continue using the service.
- Streaming music to mobile phones will not be permitted (a comment in the same thread explains that this restriction applies only to phones, so Nokia tablets are not affected).
I am saving my account for now, but I am inches away from deleting all my data on Last.fm and close my account. I guess there are many users that will do that. I have never seen more comments being made on Last.fm’s blog.
Also a friend of me blogged about this in Italian and another in Hungarian.
Almost perfect: Last.fm for iPhone and iPod Touch
1And the hatch is:
First of all we are initially rolling this out in the US, UK, Canada, France, Germany and Spain. We’re looking at other locales but have to deal with licensing and a host of other issues. We assure you that we’re working on it.
Why, why, why? Norway is forgotten again 
10.000 songs scrobbled
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I just love Last.fm and how it keeps track of the music that I listen to.
A few days ago I reached 10.000 songs scrobbled, and on my profile you can see what kind of music that I am mainly listening to. It turns out that I am quite an allrounder, listening to both, Pop, Rock, Jazz and Electronica.
It took me more or less 3,5 years to reach 10.000 songs, and that is mainly cause I don’t have a Last.fm client installed on my computer at work. So I guess that the next 10.000 songs will be reached in much shorter time frame, as I as so many others, am running around with both an iPod Touch and iPhone.
Last.fm has to some point changed my listening habits. Making it in to social network, it’s easy to check and listen closly to what my friends are listening to and to similar music that others with the same taste are listening to. And one thing is sure, I buy more music now then before. I even went to a concert after having listened to them on Last.fm!