I need to listen to more music.

To work (without using a proxy server).

It WAS the best. Now, once again, old-guard dinosaurs have had their say.

Hey Pandora CTO, why not just stick your data center in Canada or off-shore?

I used to think the Web was international, this fee story made me realized how wrong I was.

Last.fm has been a great tool for me, exposing me to bands I can’t hear about otherwise. I tried a few artists I know and found Pandora didn’t know them (”arvo part”, “rainer bruninghaus”), but Last.fm did. IMHO, anything dependent upon human reviewers — like Pandora’s sound memes, or the original Yahoo’s human categorizing of all net content — simply cannot scale.

I too old to be interested in social networking like facebook or myspace, but I do see the value in Amazon-esque “people who liked this band also liked these bands”. That’s the true power of social networking. I’m looking for music, not friends.

Final selling point for me: SlimDevices (Logitech) Squeezebox can stream my Last.fm station profiles. Very very nice.

Keep it real, Pandora! We’re backing you up!

I thought Last.Fm was cool a year ago when I downloaded it and find it completely useless except for the blog widget that says my most recent songs…and even that doesn’t do much for me it just looks cool in a sidebar.

Good luck pandora, look forward to the finely tuned stations, but just so you know I don’t care which other users listen to what I listen to…I’m just there for the music.

We’re a radio station, not a social network, or anything else.

None the less we think there is lots of great stuff that can branch off from listening: you can learn more about the artists and their albums, find other similar music, make purchases, and yes meet other folks that like the bands you like. So, not a social network, but looking for lightweight ways to expand the experience without getting in the way of our core mission: entertain you with music you’ll love. Hope you’ll stop by tomorrow morning for a listen and then drop us a note to let us know what you think.

Tom
CTO @ Pandora

If only the companies adding these features would realize that, Joe T. It’s social network bankruptcy time.

so yeah. i am in fact a 33 year-old fan of pandora’s main competitor. frankly because pandora often hasn’t even heard of the artists i plug into searches (…yup. justed searched for 3 of this weeks’ most listened to artists…nada), whereas last.fm maintains a FAR more extensive viral/wiki based roster which includes many new and talented up and coming or merely lesser known artists which users are free to explore before others have had the chance to boast “i knew them way back when”. i also really enjoy the user-initiated concert listings + numbered statistics. and have discovered new artists by listening to the custom radio stations which have included many of the aforementioned musical rarities which pandora so regretfully seems to have neglected.

it does, however, suck that last.fm has sold out to a bigger corporation, but as a music whore + part time music industry employee, though pandora led the way, pandora has never been as good as last.fm

On Pandora, it would only be a distraction from the core functionality of the site, which is awesome.

How many social networks can there be? How many can I belong to?

I wish these sites would stop trying to monetize everything in such dreadfully predictable ways, and just concentrate on their core competencies.

http://fakestev...er.blogspot.com

From the screenshots it looks like they’ve left all the good stuff intact while extending their capabilities the way they always do, through tight design and high UI standards.

Let’s see what it can do when it goes live.