Fans of Last.fm, soon you’re going to notice a big, big change in how your music streaming service of choice operates. In 2009, you’d type in Last.fm into your browser and go about streaming your music. In 2010 — not anymore. Last.fm announced today that they are aborting all on-demand streaming. Suicide you say? We’ll see… According to the Last.fm team, they’re outsourcing the actual music listening aspect to several outside...
Oh geeze, another one of those music industry posts. Just stay with me for a minute. It’s actually quite important. Do you use any streaming services such as Last.fm, Pandora, and for those lucky humans outside of the US, Spotify? If so, you may want to get ready for a much thinner library of music to pull from. Warner music has announced that they see this “free” streaming business as detrimental to the music industry their business model and as...
If you own an Xbox 360, chances are you more than likely have an Xbox Live gold account giving you free reign on Xbox Live. Without Live, the 360 is still good machine though significantly less desirable in my opinion. Whether the sinking economy stole your Xbox Live money or you simply haven’t ponied up the $50/year entrance fee because you’re “just not sure” it’s worth it, we can all agree that when someone offers you anything for free, you...
In the grand scheme of online streaming, three big names including Pandora, Spotify, and Last.fm could be considered the “big 3″ of their market. If you love the latter, you’re going to want to pay close attention to their new project titled: “Last.tv”. This new venture will revolve around (obviously) video content. Initially, CBS owned Last.tv will feature content from music festivals across Europe and is reported to be launching this...
The procrastinating social butterflies out there will no doubt be kicking themselves if they didn’t sign up to be part of the first group of previewers fortunate enough to get their hands on the latest Xbox 360 dashboard update. Said update is reported to be going live Friday for those lucky early adopters. Of course, if delays rear their ugly heads, don’t say I didn’t warn you. The significance of this update is the social aspect that gets added in. ...
