| I noted that the article mentions that there is a lot that is 'coming soon', so maybe this is all in the works and i'm being redundant but: I have to say that i'm not super impressed with how the profiles are set up. I really like Last.fm's profile pages because they provide a huge amount of information at a glance, and they do Like.fm's stated job of being 'a place to find songs that you like' very well by giving you compatibility ratings and showing top artists, top tracks, &c. Meanwhile, the profiles on Like.fm are barely a step up from a text log of songs you've played. There's no information at all aside from that, just song a, song b, song c. I am not sure how this is meant to help me discover music i like -- there's no context or anything. On another note, i find the design/layout of the site somewhat lacking as well. There's a lot of unnecessary white space and the design doesn't seem to have any coherent branding or theme (Last.fm has a relatively attractive and memorable red-and-white thing going on, for instance) -- it's just very dreary. I hope that wasn't too harsh, it was meant to be constructive. I should add that i did sign up, in anticipation of improvements -- i am very interested in moving off of Last.fm, it's just that so far there's not much to tempt me. |
And as far as more quantitative stats and similarity ratings, that's all in the works.