Building the worlds largest social music platform
Matthew Ogle of Last.fm spoke at Future of Web Apps. Luckily for us, Suw Charman took some notes and posted them on Strange Attractor
Some interesting tidbits:
- last.fm has 15 million unique visitors per month
- Openness is a key to web platform.
- Tag cloud moderation
- when tag clouds became visible people started waging hate
campaigns against specific artists such as Paris Hilton.
Future of last.fm
More: growth, streamable music, ambient findability - discover blogs and events more organically and contextually, more personalisation/things you can do with your data, need to get the data out in interesting ways
Less: fewer interfaces - need to streamline, reduce barriers to entry - cold start when you join where the service knows nothing about you so need to improve that, fewer gradient