Last.FM Adds On-Demand Service

Last.FM has added a new on demand song streaming service with the support from all four major labels and 150,000 indie labels and artists from distributors including The Orchard, CD Baby, IODA, Naxos.   Users can listen to a track free up to three times, after which they are pointed iTunes, Amazon or 7Digital for purchase.

Google Software Engineer Explains MapReduce Concept

Mark Chu-Carroll is a Google software engineer, and in a personal blog post this week explained the concept of one of Google’s programming models: MapReduce, which splits a task onto many computers on Google’s server farm (server farm, or single super computer, depending on how you look at it) to be quickly crunched.

Bringing Web Ideas to Life

It's funny, it's so easy these days to become enamored and enthusiastic about a "web project" that you tend to quickly underestimate its technical plausibility. For this I blame you, web 2.0.