That depends on how strong the business is -- blekko didn't lay off any engineers when we were purchased by IBM Watson. We did lay off marketing/biz dev folks related to the business we were no longer in. It all made good sense.
Hey Jarek, Using last.fm is a great idea! We'll add that as an option for users signing up without Facebook and use it to pre-populate the artists you follow based on your most scrobbled artists on Last.fm.
Other ways to sign up are coming very soon, we just wanted to get this out the door as soon as it was usable.
Using last.fm is a great idea! We'll add that as an option for users signing up without Facebook and use it to pre-populate the artists you follow based on your most scrobbled artists on Last.fm.
This is just version 1. We launched with Facebook connect only because that was the fastest way we could launch it in a usable way. When you connect, we grab the artists you like on Facebook to generate your personal feed. There will be other ways to sign up soon!
So if you sign up with another method, then you can manage which bands you like on the service itself? Will we also manage relationships with other users on the service? From the way the TechCrunch piece was worded, it almost seemed like FB integration was central to the value offered to users and artists.
Yes you'll be able to manage it yourself. We are working on a tool to let you search for artists to follow and to suggest you similar artists to follow.
OK, that changes my impression of the service quite a bit. Do you guys have a blog? You might want to make more such information available there and put a link to your blog or about page on the landing page. Relying on third parties like TechCrunch for communication might be problematic. Rock on!
