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If you're going to make a last.fm clone you could be a little more subtle about it.
I use last.fm heavily and i do not see anything for me on like.fm. it is basicly (for now) a bad copy.
It sounds to me like he's describing Last.FM perfectly. Last.FM is a social network for finding new music based on the songs you play/scrobble.
I think with Pandora and Last.FM already well established and Grooveshark certainly doing fine I struggle to see the room in this market and what Like.fm provides that's different. Even the name sounds like a rip off of last.fm.
Maybe there is something here that the others don't/can't provide, but I'm not seeing it - anyone have any ideas?
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I think the transcribing got a little messed up, but what I meant was that Like.fm isn't meant to be a listening destination. It's not meant to compete with Pandora, Rdio, or iTunes. It's supposed to work with content delivery platforms, aggregate the data, and the ability to play via youtube on the site is simply a convenience feature to aid in discovery.
Last.fm didn't let you listen to music through them at all in the beginning; they were just a sharing and recommendation service. And for a lot of people, that's what they still are. They also are an affiliate for content delivery platforms. They also let you listen to music via youtube on their site. They also aggregate metadata from other sites like wikipedia. How do you differentiate yourself from them?
To everyone hating for how this borrows too heavily from last.fm: I think that you'll find soon enough that there's a serious opportunity in picking up where an acquired but now stagnating startup left off. Startups are so much more agile that this might turn out to be a consistently repeatable strategy.
Sadly, Last.fm insists on listing heavy metal and rap artists as my top recommendations. I'd kill for a music discovery service that could take my changing tasted into account.
At Grooveshark, we have a feature that does this and it works amazingly well. If you click on the people icon at the upper left hand corner of the screen you'll see a feed of what your friends are currently listening to on Grooveshark. The feature has become so useful, that I often discover new music to listen to through it much more so than algorithmic recommendations. Social recommendations are indeed the best way…
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/09/countdown/cd_lis... <-- That was the 2009 top list.
Ha! Too cool Chris, I had no idea you were in YC W11. Too cool to see it go so well with Like.fm :)