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They have some older APIs that depend on MD5(password) being used directly, to compare against auth credentials or to derive other hashes to verify API requests. Though older APIs …

> There are only 2 groups who don't have JavaScript support That's not entirely accurate. While those are two of the most common cases there are plenty of other contributing factor…

FYI the map is rapidly filling with non-tech, non-startup companies,including galleries, art, fashion, nightclubs, etc.

sigh This article is mostly bullshit and certainly doesn't "help grasp what Tech City UK is all about", notably: "which started as a government effort to rejuvenate East London" is…

Careful with that, I can already see that person getting abuse whether they are involved or not :/

They're a) lovely, b) just down the road from us, and c) share some of our old staff. We see them in the pub quite a bit.

There isn't a Facebook style "Give me a chuffing great zip" option, but there are lots of API wrappers to pull down your scrobble history (for example). It could be friendlier to n…

That's the easy bit :P Copy wikipedia, disambiguate by genre and/or country . It gets harder when someone scrobbles a track by "Felt", to which artist do you attribute it? There's …

I can entirely understand that, and kind of agree. We have more data that anyone could know what to do with, but we should be doing more, I'd certainly like us to be. To try and ex…

(I work at Last.fm) Spotify is trying to be the perfect on demand music service, Last.fm isn't. It's something we tried and ended up moving away from a year or two back. On demand …

It's not ideal, but artist-disambiguation is also a non-trivial problem to solve. The effort of which needs to be balanced against a) how many people it affects and b) what else ne…

> For that matter, what is your character set? Are you using just letters, or alphanumeric characters? Again, I'd prefer the former since you aren't going to get a significant boos…

Honest question, not addressed by the TF article (and unfortunately I don't speak Swedish for the original); Is $167 for all Spotify Lady Gaga plays, or those plays made in Sweeden…

Although I'm not a huge fan of Paul Carr, he did work for the Guardian, and now for the Telegraph, so I wouldn't judge him by TC association alone.

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It's getting a bit trite that every time Last.fm is mentioned (in good or bad light) that someone mentions libre.fm. Don't get me wrong, it's a nice project, but it's as annoying a…

I would say given the constraints on founders being tied to their companies, the turnaround for leaving is far greater than the length of the TC debacle. (I work here, and have had…

I work with a couple of guys who've been doing a lot of work to organise UK (specifically London) hack spaces. http://hackspace.org.uk I think the reason for the popularity is a mi…

There's an interesting comment about "passing information back to record labels" especially given: "It was stated that the labels own 30 per cent of Spotify through equity investme…

I wrote a moderately useful lifestream hack a year or so back, just checked on it and it's slightly broken, but usable; http://dsingleton.co.uk/code/lifestream/dsingleton.co.uk The…

Careful tagging on Delicious, combined with a personal Wiki/notepad web app that pulls in links, photos, etc, based on the wiki page/tag.

"Pogoplug has put the source code for its servers in escrow. If the company goes bankrupt, the terms of the escrow dictate that the code be released to SourceForge as an open-sourc…