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Posts Tagged ‘social’

Twittering in Nambu

In Computing on 17 April 2009 tagged applications, osx, social, Software, twitter with 1 comment

I’ve seen the awkwardly-named Nambu mentioned a couple of times this past week, initially as an alternative iPhone twitter app, and then as a desktop app for OS X. I usually use TwitterFox and find it pretty reasonable so I haven’t felt too compelled to change. Many people use the popular TweetDeck application which hasn’t [...]

Last.fm continues alienating music-lovers

In Web on 30 March 2009 tagged last.fm, Music, social, Web with no comments

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

In Web on 26 March 2009 tagged last.fm, Music, social with 6 comments

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 [...]