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Re:Former Google engineer builds Turntable clone by macrael on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @05:58AM (#2840474)
Truly bizarre. A straight up clone of the entire service, no detail too small to be copied. Id hoped to find that the developers had tried something new with the format. I'd love to see a similar service where everyone in the room somehow collaborates on the playlist rather than requiring 5 people to take turns picking one song.
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Re:Former Google engineer builds Turntable clone by kajecounterhack on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @06:20AM (#2840515)
We did something of the sort for a hack day project (warning: completely hacked) -- https://github.com/samliu/wsoh

Building your own turntable.fm is surprisingly simple when you use NowJS. Oh also sorry my code hardcodes a few urls (e.g the nowjs library to my server in the index), I haven't gotten around to making the repo code clean for a real release.

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Re:Former Google engineer builds Turntable clone by chrischen on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @06:50AM (#2840576)
Well the concept is still new and not everyone knows about it. They may be similar right now, butin the race for users, they will still have to add new features and changes to out-compete each other.
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Re:Former Google engineer builds Turntable clone by ch0wn on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @07:03AM (#2840602)
There's one noticeable difference for me: I can use it, living outside the US.
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Re:Former Google engineer builds Turntable clone by mirrorskin on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @07:20AM (#2840656)
Oh, give it some weeks to flourish before RIAA will strike. And I bet they will.
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