The Origins of Last.fm and Audioscrobbler: How 2002 Student Projects Pioneered Social Music Discovery
Following in Amazon's footsteps, two student projects independently use 'collaborative filtering' to bring recommendations and social networking to online music; soon they will join forces.
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