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Archive for March 2009

DepoSkinny

This blog’s theme has been bugging me for awhile and was due for a change. With apologies to kev, I’m shamelessly lifting Derek Powazek’s Depo-Skinny theme. I’ll be tailoring it to my own tastes over the next couple of days so if stuff seems broken, it probably is. You’d think I’d test this on a [...]

Last.fm continues alienating music-lovers

The Future of Last.fm Radio APIs – Last.fm Web Services Discussions – Last.fm
Last.fm has never had a public radio API, although we’ve tolerated third-party clients using the undocumented calls that our client uses. This is finally about to change – we’re going to make a public, documented streaming API available to everyone who has an [...]

So long, Last.fm. Thanks for all the Gish

The popular music site Last.fm was a fun experiment for me. They announced a couple of days ago that they were going to start charging a subscription fee for use of their streaming music. US, UK and German listeners will still get the full service for free.
I don’t envy them their position of having to [...]