http://simonwillison.net/2010-01-07T21:58:20+00:00Simon Willison2010-01-07T21:58:20+00:002010-01-07T21:58:20+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Jan/7/datadecs/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2010/01/data-decs.html">russell davies: datadecs</a></strong></p> Personalised christmas decorations made from data from Twitter, Doppler, last.fm and Flickr. The Twitter snowman came from a 3D printer—the size of the head varies depending on your number of followers. Best of all though is the Flickr decoration which represents the apertures you’ve used over the past year. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/3dprinters">3dprinters</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/datadecs">datadecs</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dopplr">dopplr</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/flickr">flickr</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lastfm">lastfm</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/russell-davies">russell-davies</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/twitter">twitter</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/visualisation">visualisation</a></p>

2009-01-08T19:04:24+00:002009-01-08T19:04:24+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jan/8/irc/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.metabrew.com/article/how-we-use-irc-at-lastfm/">How we use IRC at Last.fm</a></strong></p> With IRCCat, an elegant Java IRC bot that accepts Twitter-like messages to a network port (generally sent using netcat) and directs them to a user or channel. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/irc">irc</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/irccat">irccat</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/java">java</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lastfm">lastfm</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/nc">nc</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/netcat">netcat</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/richard-jones">richard-jones</a></p>

2008-10-16T14:16:18+00:002008-10-16T14:16:18+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Oct/16/millionuser/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.metabrew.com/article/a-million-user-comet-application-with-mochiweb-part-1/">A Million-user Comet Application with Mochiweb, Part 1</a></strong></p> Richard Jones explores Mochiweb, Erlang and linux kernel tuning for building a high performance comet server. Does this mean real-time web features are coming to last.fm? <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/comet">comet</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/erlang">erlang</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lastfm">lastfm</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mochiweb">mochiweb</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/realtimeweb">realtimeweb</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/richard-jones">richard-jones</a></p>

2008-05-31T14:14:56+00:002008-05-31T14:14:56+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/May/31/lastfm/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://blog.last.fm/2008/05/29/python-hadoop-flying-circus-elephant">Python + Hadoop = Flying Circus Elephant</a></strong></p> Last.fm have released Dumbo, a Python module that lets you easily write Hadoop map/reduce tasks using Python and generators. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dumbo">dumbo</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/generators">generators</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/hadoop">hadoop</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lastfm">lastfm</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mapreduce">mapreduce</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a></p>

2008-05-25T14:05:20+00:002008-05-25T14:05:20+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/May/25/lastgraph/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://lastgraph3.aeracode.org/">LastGraph 3</a></strong></p> Andrew Godwin’s last.fm profile visualisation tool, now in its third incarnation. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/andrew-godwin">andrew-godwin</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lastfm">lastfm</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lastgraph">lastgraph</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lastgraph3">lastgraph3</a></p>

2007-10-15T22:02:03+00:002007-10-15T22:02:03+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Oct/15/aeracode/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.aeracode.org/2007/10/15/lastgraph-now-available/">LastGraph. Now Available.</a></strong></p> Andrew Godwin has relaunched his LastGraph Last.fm graphing application. The new version is built on Django and S3 and uses Andrew’s Graphication graphing library based on Cairo. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/andrew-godwin">andrew-godwin</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/cairo">cairo</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/django">django</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/graphication">graphication</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/graphing">graphing</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lastfm">lastfm</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lastgraph">lastgraph</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/s3">s3</a></p>

2007-09-13T17:46:54+00:002007-09-13T17:46:54+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Sep/13/lastfm/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://blog.last.fm/2007/08/29/audio-fingerprinting-for-clean-metadata">Audio Fingerprinting for Clean Metadata</a></strong></p> Last.fm have started using audio fingerprints to help clean up misspelled artists and duplicate track information. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/audio">audio</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/audiofingerprinting">audiofingerprinting</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lastfm">lastfm</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/metadata">metadata</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mp3">mp3</a></p>

2007-07-04T00:53:40+00:002007-07-04T00:53:40+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jul/4/slideshare/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/group/webapps-scalability/slideshows">SlideShare: Webapps scalability</a></strong></p> Lots of great presentations on scaling, from Twitter, Digg, Vox, LiveJournal, Last.fm and more. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/digg">digg</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lastfm">lastfm</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/livejournal">livejournal</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/scaling">scaling</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sixapart">sixapart</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/slideshare">slideshare</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/twitter">twitter</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/vox">vox</a></p>

2007-04-20T06:50:51+00:002007-04-20T06:50:51+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Apr/20/libketama/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.last.fm/user/RJ/journal/2007/04/10/392555/">libketama</a></strong></p> A consistent hashing algorithm for memcache clients, from the team at last.fm. <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://del.icio.us/deusx">Les Orchard</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/hashing">hashing</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lastfm">lastfm</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/les-orchard">les-orchard</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/memcache">memcache</a></p>