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Typical startup fallacy. Just because they aren't overhauling their site every few months doesn't mean they are stagnating.

There is a difference between being stagnant and being stable.

The new content and change come from the data users scrobble and from the new music musicians make. The site is a platform for that, and IMHO it does its job perfectly. Not only that, but it makes a lot of money doing it.

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That distinction exists out in conceptual space, yes. But I am not sure Last.fm falls on the right side of it.

A startup can only live on "hey that's cool" for so long, when the promise of all these new ways of interacting is itself suggestive enough to capture people's imaginations even if it happens not to be very useful.

But soon we get acclimated, and even bored. And to keep pace with the ever-receding limit of human curiosity there must be some combination of new innovation and enduring usefulness, if not just one or the other.

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