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Playgrounds: Fun and interesting applications of Last.fm’s technology

June 4th, 2007

The vast array of listening information available at Last.fm probably had a great deal to do with CBS's decision to purchase the company. Though I'm wary of the deal, I've not lost all hope for the site. The Audioscrobbler technology behind it is some pretty fascinating stuff and the data it collects is open and available be analyzed, interpreted, shared and displayed in a lot of diverse applications. Hopefully, ...

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Five Things you might not have known about me

December 28th, 2006

So Webomatica tagged me and I guess I'm now "it" for the five things chain blog that's been making the rounds. The idea is for a blogger to post five items of potentially new information about themselves. I guess it's to help readers gain more insight into the writer. So, I'm game. Number One I back-date my songs in iTunes' Date Added field. If I'm encoding a CD I originally got ...

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