Spotify, like Last FM and Imeem, lets its members build and listen to their own library of songs that are streamed to them via the web.
More people than ever before are listening to the radio online whether through Internet streams of local stations like KISS-FM in Los Angeles or with Pandora and Last.fm.
That's pretty huge -- but if that wasn't enough, you're also getting Twitter and Last.fm in the deal.
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It has funded several of the continent's most successful start-ups, notably Skype, MySQL and Last.fm, an online music service.
With Spotify, Rdio, Pandora and Last.fm already doing that, what is going to set MySpace apart from the pack?
There was Wall Street video blog Wallstrip, there was online radio site Last.fm, there was high school sports site MaxPreps.
Microsoft launched Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm apps for Xbox Live this week, as well as its Zune Video HD instant-streaming service.
As well as WallStrip, Last.fm and MaxPreps, he bought a ragbag of other Internet businesses, including video site Joost and online advertising start-up SpotRunner.
The presence of these companies and investors will encourage more US companies to follow, as will well-known UK-based companies like Skype, Last.fm, Spotify and Tweetdeck.
Hype Machine is sort of a conglomeration of Pandora and last.fm.
Online and, increasingly, on mobile phones, there is fierce competition from music-streaming services such as Last.fm, Spotify and we7, which allow users to assemble their own playlists.
But arriving so late in the US means that the newcomer will find a market where digital music consumers already have plenty of choice, from Pandora to last.fm, from Rdio to Rhapsody.
By contrast the Sonos ZonePlayer S5, introduced earlier this month, is built to suck up music from an iTunes collection, Internet radio stations such as Last.fm and Pandora, or subscription music services such as Napster and Rhapsody.
And while the Connect's implementation may fall short of the strong computer or community-generated music exploration features offered by Pandora, Goombah, iJiggy, La La, Last.fm, Amazon or others, it makes for an enjoyable self-led path to discovering new music.
Exfm sourced music data from Last.fm.
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And with Songkick and last.fm - two firms to have emerged from London's startup scene - contributing apps to the new platform, yesterday's event was heartening evidence that European firms can work together to make a big noise in the global music industry.
Roku's awfully proud of its Channel Store, which has over 75 channels from services like Facebook, Pandora, Last.fm, MLB.tv, and more, but installing almost every single channel involves logging into the respective service on your computer and linking the Roku player to your account.
Adding inactivity to injury, this is especially true in locations where many people exercise accompanied to music, airplanes (hey, it's hard to return those seats to their upright positions), the New York City subway system, and the streets of cities other than Mountain View, CA. Indeed, most WiFi-friendly environments are also laptop-friendly and thus support access to not only Yahoo Music and its competitors, but high-quality free internet radio from last.fm, Slacker, and others.
After initially starting the service for PC users online, Shi offered Jing.fm via mobile phone download last year.
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The overall Sony Gold Award for services to the radio industry - won last year by Zoe Ball - went to Classic FM's chief exectutive Ralph Bernard.
While the iPhone didn't even have a built-in FM radio to replace, Android phones have now started to forgo the radio tuner in the last few years as streaming services (and data reception) have improved.
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Commercial station Classic FM picked up the prize for national station of the year, after just missing out to Radio 2 last year.
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