Last.fm to start scrobbling video?

According to this article in the register, last.fm is going to do for music videos, what it does for music audio. Interesting! 

Posted on: Mar 14, 2007

Posted by: plamere

Category: music

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I'm not sure that's so interesting -- it seems that music videos are (and will remain) a miniscule portion of overall music consumption. Beyond that, the only technical barrier for last.fm is that (I would wager) the metadata situation for music videos is radically worse than for MP3s unless you make the charitable assumption that they were all bought from iTMS. What potential do you see here?

Posted by Neil on March 15, 2007 at 09:18 AM EDT #

Neil - I agree that music videos are a small portion of the music space and the impact that this will have on me will be small (I rarely watch music videos). I am interested, however, it what last.fm will do in this space. Of all the 'new media' companies out there, last.fm 'gets it' more than anyone, in terms of opening up their data, building web services around their data, the deep and flexible tagging. Compare what they do to what we see at Flickr and Youtube - they do it so much better. So I'm interested in seeing what innovations last.fm bring to the video space.

Posted by Paul on March 15, 2007 at 10:03 AM EDT #

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