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"It’s not meant to be a Pandora but a compliment to it, it’s a place for sound discovery, where you go and listen to music.”"

Right, because I don't go and listen to music when I visit Pandora, Grooveshark, etc.

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I think the transcribing got a little messed up, but what I meant was that Like.fm isn't meant to be a listening destination. It's not meant to compete with Pandora, Rdio, or iTunes. It's supposed to work with content delivery platforms, aggregate the data, and the ability to play via youtube on the site is simply a convenience feature to aid in discovery.

Last.fm didn't let you listen to music through them at all in the beginning; they were just a sharing and recommendation service. And for a lot of people, that's what they still are. They also are an affiliate for content delivery platforms. They also let you listen to music via youtube on their site. They also aggregate metadata from other sites like wikipedia. How do you differentiate yourself from them?

Facebook did a lot of the same things other social networks did too on a high level. But you can't look at things only on a high level or else they all look the same. This is a preview of what's to come, since this site is new, and we're a much smaller company than Last.fm.

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