Revendiquant over fifteen million users in more than two hundred countries, the service Last .fm has been bought by the American CBS (related to Viacom) for an amount of 280 million dollars. Since the announcement of this acquisition, Richard Jones, co-founder of Last .fm, held to reassure users: the site will retain its current form and design of the protection of personal information. However, the arrival of CBS within Last .fm will without doubt the British start-up to develop new agreements with record companies.Launched in 2002, Last .fm is a music recommendation service with a set of online radios whose contents are customizable. Pieces streamed via the service can be “tagged” to create new thematic reading lists, while an application is installed in charge of local music celebrity analyze the user so that they suggest new artists suited to his tastes.
Meanwhile, CBS continues its development on services such as “social network”. Last week, CBS Interactive announced to effect the signing of agreements with thirteen sites and services resulting from the movement called “web 2.0″, in order to disseminate its content on pages, bogs or sites Community dimension.
Jun 29