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by joejohnson 5169 days ago
Chart.io, Like.fm (Extreme obviousness meets extreme brandability): I know exactly what these companies do before I even visit their sites.

Really? Cause I have no idea what Like.fm does. Chart.io? It's a place to input/output charts or something?

This post is pure pseudoscience.

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I can't be the only one that was confused by the name Last.fm when I discovered it. I thought it was about FM radio.
It used to be separate from audioscrobbler.com (the charting and recommendations service) and only did streaming 'radio' based on your AudioScrobbler account. I'm guessing that, they realised that while AudioScrobbler is an okay name, Last.fm is a better one (it's short, easy to remember and implies something to do with music/radio) and merged the websites.