Buckshot Ep. 4: Last.fm

Last.fm released their facebook widget. I really like facebook as a place for real-name-real-life type interactions. I'm not so sure about it as a "platform", Since not all my web profiles are as real.
they also finally started a blog.
which led me to find their solution for subscribing to my shoutbox: hAtom markup (mad props for microformat adoption). They're linking to an hAtom converter on microformatic.com, which you could also use to subscribe to, say, this blog!
I also found out that last.fm has been bought by CBS. i have a hard time imagining this not leading further to further agglomeration of the internet into old mass media. the only way i can imagine that not happening is that audioscrobbler is still open source, so using amaroK or songbird will definately not submit content-type information (information about the source of the song, i.e. mp3's). (the official client may now be suspect, since CBS does also own a record company which is a member of the RIAA).
The viability of their business model, however, has drawn in competitors. previously, i had little to no interest in iLike, virb, et al, but the submitting my play count to the RIAA seems like a really bad idea.

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