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Spotify, the Swedish startup with a Bittorrent-meets-Last.fm service streaming music service, has launched into open public beta. The startup is understood to have raised a massive €15.3m from VCs Northzone Venture Partners and Creandum. Spotify is a lightweight iTunes-like application streams songs via encrypted P2P technology. The service is ad-financed, hence the comparison with Last.fm. [...]
Forbes has an interesting (if you're a nerd) interview with Last.fm's Chief Operating Officer Spencer Hyman. Among other things, he gave a succinct breakdown of the finite means by which revenue can be made off of music on the Internet . There only are a limited number of ways you could make money. It's advertising, it's subscriptions, it's e-commerce and then its using the data for smart purposes...
Noel Gallagher of Oasis said about Keane "they are shit" recently. Well, what else would you expect. I guess he won't be one of many going to their profile on last.fm to stream the new record. Perfect Symmetry, their third...
The Raving Knaves Live at the dotmatrix project is out and about online. If you hurry up, you can download it for free from Amie Street (new to Amie Street? use this sign-up page to get $5 worth of free music). The Last.fm release will be up soon. Enjoy! Credits: Live recording: Don Ravon Track mix by Dan Bayer and [...]
This week we interviewed one of the founders of online music service last.fm , Richard "Mr Scrobble" Jones. We're running the interview in 3 parts, over 3 days. This is Part 3 about design and features; following on from Part 1 about last.fm and its competition and Part 2 about business models . In this post we explore last.fm's feature set, how it compares to MySpace Music, and what we can expect...
So we decided to try an experiment... instead of everyone using headphones or listening to music on their own computer, we loaded up our Living Room Mac with a bunch of songs and turned it into a jukebox...
This week we interviewed one of the founders of online music service last.fm , Richard "Mr Scrobble" Jones. We wanted to find out last.fm's reaction to the launch of MySpace Music and the rise of Imeem, discuss business models in online music, and find out what's new at last.fm. We're running the interview in 3 parts, over 3 days. This is Part 2 about business models; following on from Part 1 about...
Spotify , founded by the former Tradedoubler team, is understood to have raised €15.3m from Northzone Venture Partners at a monster €71.6m pre-money valuation. The service is still in private beta.
Spotify, founded by the former Tradedoubler team, is understood to have raised €15.3m from Northzone Venture Partners at a monster €71.6m pre-money valuation. The service is still in private beta. Northzone themselves have declined to comment, but Creandum, another of Sweden’s top VCs, is also understood to have taken part in the funding round. Spotif have [...]
The social element is key to music online. Sites like iLike and Last.fm, which CBS acquired for $280 million last year, allow users with similar music tastes to connect, and enable the discovery of new music
This week we interviewed one of the founders of online music service last.fm , Richard "Mr Scrobble" Jones. We wanted to find out last.fm's reaction to the launch of MySpace Music and the rise of Imeem, discuss business models in online music, and find out what's new at last.fm. We're running the interview in 3 parts, over 3 days. We started out by asking about the increasing competition in online...
Join Aleks Krotoski and Jemima Kiss with a host of music industry professionals as they dissect the impact technology has had on the music industry. Martin Sticksel from Last.fm pulls back the curtain on the hugely successful British music recommendation service. We hear Bobbie Johnson's thoughts on how the history of the music industry is strangely reminiscent of the issues it currently faces, and...
