Confessions of a compulsive scrobbler

Central to the offering of music community last.fm is the idea of scrobbling. Every track is added to an ongoing listening chart, documenting each track and band the user has played.
Some users have played hundreds of thousands of songs and all of it is neatly displayed on their profiles in the form of bar graphs. [...]

Keep your London crime map and Nokia music - I’ve got my social action widget

Three new projects from the past few weeks prove once again that it’s not quality or usefulness that gets the hype, it’s the sexiness of the brand.
Nokia’s Come With Music proposition was hailed as a breakthrough in downloadable music purely for the fact that your files wouldn’t self destruct after 12 months of use. Don’t [...]