Comments on: How best to discover?

By: Mix sharing vs personal listening « Sampled + Sorted

Mix sharing vs personal listening « Sampled + Sorted — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:51:25 +0000

[...] enjoy both Last.fm and Pandora and have written about them in the past. Both deliver a radio-style experience that is personalized based on [...]

By: Last.fm goes on-demand « Sampled + Sorted

Last.fm goes on-demand « Sampled + Sorted — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:35:52 +0000

[...] you know, I’m a big fan of Last.fm — it’ll be 2 years ago tomorrow since I first posted about it, and if I weren’t focussed on my own venture, there’s no place I’d [...]

By: How best to acquire? « Sampled + Sorted

How best to acquire? « Sampled + Sorted — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 04:22:05 +0000

[...] Nearly a year ago now, I wrote my first substantive post on Sampled + Sorted, entitled “How best to discover?” Thanks to props from Rags Gupta and Fred Wilson, it’s without question the most-read post I’ve made to date. [...]

By: Mashable* - Pete Cashmore on Web2.0 » Last.fm versus Pandora (Continued)

Mashable* - Pete Cashmore on Web2.0 » Last.fm versus Pandora (Continued) — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 15:36:55 +0000

[...] Fred Wilson have also compared Last.fm and Pandora recently. Add to Del.icio.us | Cosmos | Digg It! | Slashdot [...]

By: Mashable*

Mashable* — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 15:34:07 +0000

Last.fm versus Pandora (Continued)

Steve Krause has contributed to the ongoing Last.fm vs Pandora discussion with an excellent and in-depth post. He writes:
Algorithmically, Pandora versus Last.fm is something like the nature versus nurture debate. Taking the nature side, Pandora…

By: ianar

ianar — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 14:58:38 +0000

Nice analysis! I can't comment on Pandora or Live365 since I don't use them (it seems very hard to make Live365 pay). I have a LAUNCHcast station, which I now keep in reserve, favouring my Lart.FM stations. Since August 2005, Last.FM have had a system for user-tagging in place. They are starting to identify similarities between global-tags (amalgamations), e.g. new wave and melodic tags. This could be the means of Last.FM growing into the analytic area Pandora occupies.

By: Steve Krause : Blog

Steve Krause : Blog — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 05:17:58 +0000

Pandora and Last.fm: Nature vs. Nurture in Music Recommenders

Over the past week, there has been some blog talk (Fred Wilson, TechCrunch, David Porter) comparing music-recommendation services Pandora and Last.fm. I’ve been using both for the past couple months, making notes along the way with the idea that I’d

By: Rags' Soapbox

Rags' Soapbox — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 05:11:24 +0000

Last.fm vs Pandora

There has been a raging debate as to whether Last.fm or Pandora is the better personalized radio service. Fred Wilson started it off with his first post in which he claims Last.fm is hands-down the winner and just recently posted