August 2011
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Scrobbling Heatmap Calendar
Created by Martin D., one of my ex-colleagues from Last.fm, this is an amazing visualisation of scrobbling activity by year, month, day of the week and even time of day.
They’re manually generated at the moment, with a set for Last.fm staff past and present. The slideshow version is particularly interesting to compare varying peoples listening habits.
Each year of data is arranged in...
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Last.fm Now-Playing information radiator
This is a litte project I started a while back but only finished/cleaned up recently. It’s a simple information radiator that shows you what a Last.fm user is listening to right now.
It was designed to let one (or many people) know what’s playing at a glance. I’ve been using it while listening to Last.fm radio while getting ready for work, shared office playback (it works...
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Leaving Last.fm
8 years of scrobbling, 55,000 tracks and 4 years with the incredible Last.fm team, it’s been a blast, but it’s time to move on and do something new.
It’s been a really difficult decision to leave. Last.fm was quite literally a dream job for me and at times a family. I’m proud to have worked on a brilliant product with so many great people. I feel like i’ve grown...