Tag: Last.fm

  • Wakoopa makes a game out of using software and web apps

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    Aaron Traffas
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    Tech startup Wakoopa this week released some intriguing findings regarding software trends. They have relatively-real-time data on the usage of apps like Facebook, Outlook and Firefox, for example, throughout the day. They claim to have logged over 525 million hours of software usage from their 75,000 users. How do they get their data? Why is…

  • Last.fm streams music, scrobbles

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    Aaron Traffas
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    We’ve recently become fans – nay, a fanatics – of social music site Last.fm. It could be described as Internet radio, but with several twists that make it also a music recommendation engine. We started using the service several years ago, but only recently figured out how to truly integrate it into the day-to-day routine.…