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Comment by lachyg | Hacker News Reader

I misread the title as Last.fm there!

I have a hard time reading it as anything other than Last.fm even after knowing it isn't Last.fm.

Wehn you cnodiser how we sacn wdors scuh taht the bignennig and end are by far the most iportmant deriffentaiotrs, the nmiang is annoyingly similiar, IMO.

Nice demo :-) I hadn't put my finger on why exactly I always read like.fm as last.fm, but I think you hit it on the head.

I read the linked article and I'm not entirely convinced there is a difference (I've used last.fm happily for five years, and never touched the streaming stuff).

If I've got 30,000 "scrobbles" and all my friends on last.fm, what does like.fm offer me that would make me switch?

They have all this cool data and I feel they're not doing as much as they could with it in terms of modern social features. And for new users I think the experience of finding your friends via facebook is much easier than it is on Last.fm.

But I agree with you right now the site still needs more features. But you can use both services while I work on them. I see a lot of potential for improvement and for advancing the idea behind music tracking.

I am sure they will have FB social features soon enough. Do keep in mind that Last.fm has their own valuable friend graph (even if you may not have a ton of friends on it) that is meaningfully different from the FB graph

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