“At the music company Last.fm I worked alongside Matthew Ogle, helping to shape a service from a firehose of 800 scrobbles per second. When he and I left our respective product and design posts, we started talking more seriously about our remaining itches in online music. We realized we were missing a place where we could wholeheartedly express our musical taste in a way that's more distinctive, more singular, more...tender. We'd also seen enough attempts at real-time song sharing to know that while having songs tick by like stock prices may look cool, it's not that valuable: How do I know which of those songs really matters to you?” • #long_now - × × ×