[Air-l] last.fm group

[M.B.Gaved]

Last.fm bought by CBS for 280 million dollars

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6701863.stm

Friend of mine knows the guys who started it, nice bunch of folk by all accounts. My friend said last time he popped over to their place "they looked like a bunch of rabbits caught in car headlights" .... "ah, that would explain it" my friend noted when I sent him the link to the BBC page :-)

Mark


Mark Gaved
Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes, UK
MK7 6AA

http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/mark


-----Original Message-----
From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org on behalf of Andrea Forte
Sent: Wed 5/30/2007 11:41 PM
To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
Subject: Re: [Air-l] last.fm group
 

It actually doesn't surprise me that people put that much effort into
gaming Last. I'm into music and I pay attention to music likes/dislikes on
soc networking sites. In Judith Donath's terminology, Last seems to me as
a music lover to be more of an assessment signal for music tastes--and one
of the few available online to identify like-minded listeners. Far more
difficult to misrepresent one's tastes than with the conventional
signaling associated with free-text profiles in myspace, facebook, etc.

Andrea