Topic: Last.fm Ltd.

Lady Gaga Is Last.fm's Most Unwanted Artist

Lady Gaga has topped Last.fm's latest "Most Unwanted Scrobbles" list, meaning her tracks were most frequently deleted from user playlists last month. Is this the beginning of the end for Fast Company's Most Creative Person in Business?READ»

iFive: Gulf Still Oily, Illinois Legislates for Solar, the Mega-Range EV, RIM Wants Mobile Ad Network, Spotify Chief's New Home

A standing ovation for innovation, please. Clap clap clap clap clap.READ»

Brilliant Idea: Kindle Can Do for Books What Last.fm Did for Music

Digital reading platforms can collect previously unheralded data about how we read books--and that could change the way we buy them.READ»

MOG Announces Mobile Apps and All-You-Can-Download Service, Throws Down Gauntlet

Spotify, Rhapsody, Zune, Pandora, iTunes, and Slacker: MOG is here. And it's challenging every one of you.READ»

An iPhone App Made of Air

The world's favorite Gallic audio love-muffins, Air, have teamed up with RjDj, aka Reality Jocky Ltd, for a rather spanky iPhone app to promote their Love 2 album. The basic premise is that you can pick any of the tracks from the ...READ»

Infographic of the Day: LastHistory Graphs All Your Last.fm Listening

LastHistory summarizes all your listening preferences in an interactive map.READ»

Wanna Know How Your Neighbors Spend Their Money? It's All on Bundle.com

These days, there are few things more valuable than finding your virtual doppelganger--a "friend" who shares many, if not most, of your tastes and traits. On Last.fm, his scrobbles reveal catchy new songs. On Twitter, her tweets ...READ»

The n900 is a star in the Nokia family

After the disappointing N97 it was all to easy to dismiss Nokia as a fading star of mobile phone design. The flagship which failed to float was the perfect excuse for a whole horde of doomsayers to predict the end of the once-greatest ...READ»

Last.fm's Year in Music: New York, London, and the World

The differences are a lot more pronounced than you'd guess.READ»

Did MySpace Botch Handling of Imeem Acquisition?

Imagine yourself sitting in front of a computer, happily listening to music from your favorite online streaming service. All of a sudden, the music stops, and the page refreshes to something you’ve never seen before, with an announcement that your favorite service is no longer available. Sound far-fetched? It shouldn’t. Earlier this week...READ»

Objection! Florida Bans Judges From "Friending" Lawyers on All Social-Networking Sites

In one of the craziest proclamations I've ever read, the Florida Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee has banned judges from "friending" lawyers on social-networking sites. The reason?READ»

Boxee Gathers iTunes, Hulu, Last.fm and More in New Set-Top

With the availability of devices like Tivo, DVR, and online video streaming platforms, we have access to nearly every show on television, whenever we want it. Our growing media consumption – whether it’s through TV, YouTube, iTunes, or streaming video – is no doubt growing each year, and expanding beyond the television set itself to ever more popular on-demand streaming platforms. Online video streaming will get even…READ»

Facebook and Twitter Come to Xbox Live This Tuesday

The next update to the Xbox Live network will bring social networking support and new media opportunities to users.READ»

Three Mobile Music Apps That Rule

iTunes 9 is the most bloated version yet: The app alone is 160MB, even bigger than iMovie. And while the it is pretty slick, and Genius can now make you the personal mixtape you always wanted, iTunes 9 also tries hard to woo you into ...READ»

Score One for Sanity in Yahoo Music Webcast Ruling

The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled in favor of Yahoo's appeal against punitive music royalty fees levied on its online Launchcast music service. Sounds bland? Nope--it may have a big impact on the online music ...READ»

Want to Save the Planet? Stop Buying CDs, Start Downloading Music

It seems intuitive enough that downloading music would be less carbon-intensive than buying a CD that has been transported in a truck and wrapped in multiple layers of plastic. Now a study (PDF) funded by Intel and Microsoft and ...READ»

Warner, 7digital Spread the Music

In a sign that the major labels are finally beginning to embrace digital music worldwide, U.K.-based digital music provider 7digital announced a pan-European licensing agreement with Warner Music to sell their MP3s, nearly completing ...READ»

A Millennial's Guide to Millennial Guides

If you've read any magazines, Web sites, newspapers, or books in the last decade, you probably know who I am. You know I have a three-second attention span, because I was weaned on emails, texts, and instant messages. You know I'm a ...READ»

Astonishing Tribe's Augmented ID App Recognizes People Around You

A miracle for real-world networking, which uses attaches virtual ID's to people using facial recognition software and the camera on your phone.READ»

Microsoft Brings Social Networking and 3-D Motion Capture to Xbox 360

The rumors proved true: Microsoft is bringing motion a capture device to the Xbox 360. The company also announced that Xbox Live will support social networking via Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm. Along with the usual flood of ...READ»

Why Are the Most Creative People in Business Skipping Out on Web 2.0?

These days, we're all public figures. We're sharing our friends on Facebook, our photos on Flickr, our music on Last.fm, and our goofy links insightful observations on Twitter. So when Fast Company set out to capture ...READ»

The Top Mobile Apps

Filtering 25,000-plus apps into one list? Impossible. Instead, hot apps to suit your style and phone.READ»

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Filtering 25,000-plus apps into one list? Impossible. Instead, hot apps to suit your style and phone.READ»

Yahoo Revamps its Online Music Portal, Aims For Number 1 Spot

Yahoo has just refreshed its Music Pages service with bunch of new band-configurable widgets that sort of turn it into the MySpace of the Music Industry: an interesting move, considering how many bands use MySpace for self-promotion ...READ»

The Most Innovative Companies in Music

Apple may be the top music retailer in the U.S., but the company isn't alone when it comes to keeping the industry afloat. Here are the top 10 companies--and a band--innovating the business of music.READ»