Last.fm Founders’ Next Track: Lumi

Posted by ebassi on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @07:09AM
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http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/04/last-fm-founders-next-track-lumi-a-site-that-uses-your-browsing-history-to-help-you-discover-things-on-the-web/?icid=trending3&grcc2=211e9f1cade0871ac6a68b4c3e70f4a3~1354622639103~fca4fa8af1286d8a77f26033fdeed202~1b92a4a35d496977496d2034ef06ffd4~1354622639102~98~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~9~6~10~14~-1~-1712885869036340998~~http%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F~

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Re:Last.fm Founders’ Next Track: Lumi by quarterto on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @07:21AM (#4870569)

I'm dubious of just handing these guys my browser history. Facebook et al use your social graph not just for personalisation but for advertising.

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Re:Last.fm Founders’ Next Track: Lumi by quarterto on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @07:22AM (#4870571)

Also: filter bubbles.

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Re:Last.fm Founders’ Next Track: Lumi by ebassi on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @07:32AM (#4870597)

the data collected from the history is not associated with the user account, only analysed; and the plugin/extension respects private/incognito mode, according to the privacy policy: https://lumi.do/about/privacy

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Re:Last.fm Founders’ Next Track: Lumi by quarterto on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @07:42AM (#4870618)

So how are they supposed to personalise your content if they don't know who visited what?

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Re:Last.fm Founders’ Next Track: Lumi by zalew on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @07:49AM (#4870636)

great, another site wants to 'personalize' stuff based on what I 'like', so I can 'discover' stuff similar to what I looked for before.

btw hasn't the early StumbleUpon worked that way? browser extension + suggestions?

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Re:Last.fm Founders’ Next Track: Lumi by truebosko on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @01:13PM (#4872302)

I loved Last.fm back in the day when all of our music was stored on the hard drive. Scrobbled an insane amount of data via foobar2000.

Recently discovered Rdio connects to last.fm so that data can flow from there too.

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