Friends, we are entering the Golden Age of Scrobbling.
As far as I know, music service Last.FM invented the term "scrobble" to describe the act of automatically uploading the meta data (Track Title, Band, etc.) of the music you listen to on your computer to Last.FM's servers. Why would you want to do this? Probably one of two reasons - 1) As a musical diary which can help you crank out self expression widgets that show the world how awesome your musical taste is; or 2) more practically, to let Last.FM use this information to recommend you music and people that are compatible with you.
A whole little ecosystem has developed around the Last.FM scrobbler. Music services like BandsInTown let you drop in your Last.FM ID in order to keep you abreast of when your favorite bands are playing nearby, and services like HypeMachine let you push the music you listen to on HypeMachine over to Last.FM.
But Scrobbling doesn't have to be an implicit process running in the background. And it doesn't have to be music.
One of my favorite nightlife apps is LastCall - an app that helps you track your alcoholic intake and chart your blood alcohol level. It's a booze scrobbler if you will.
Brad Feld tweeted about a Fat Scrobbler (aka wifi enabled scale) this morning that uploads your weight over time to a server, so you can track your fitness.
Foursquare and Gowalla are location scrobblers. It doesn't take a genius to predict that other location based services will soon let you enter in your Foursquare or Gowalla IDs to provide location based alerts / recommendations on top of this scrobbled location data.
There are also calorie scrobblers and running scrobblers and web browsing scrobblers.
Obviously, the rise of smartphones is going to help the scrobbling ecosystem greatly. The biggest weakness of the Last.FM scrobbler was that it only scrobbles music you listen to on your computer, leaving out what you listen to in the car, or on the go. Better phones, better apps, and more bandwidth will help in this area.
My question is... what else can we scrobble? And when are we going to have a scrobbling insert for my throat that tracks all the food and drink that goes down there? I want a display, preferably overlaid on a contact lens, that tells me the point of the day when my calories consumed has surpassed my calories burned.
Mobile + Activity Sensors / Trackers + Scrobbling is going to make for some magical apps.
As far as I know, music service Last.FM invented the term "scrobble" to describe the act of automatically uploading the meta data (Track Title, Band, etc.) of the music you listen to on your computer to Last.FM's servers. Why would you want to do this? Probably one of two reasons - 1) As a musical diary which can help you crank out self expression widgets that show the world how awesome your musical taste is; or 2) more practically, to let Last.FM use this information to recommend you music and people that are compatible with you.
A whole little ecosystem has developed around the Last.FM scrobbler. Music services like BandsInTown let you drop in your Last.FM ID in order to keep you abreast of when your favorite bands are playing nearby, and services like HypeMachine let you push the music you listen to on HypeMachine over to Last.FM.
But Scrobbling doesn't have to be an implicit process running in the background. And it doesn't have to be music.
One of my favorite nightlife apps is LastCall - an app that helps you track your alcoholic intake and chart your blood alcohol level. It's a booze scrobbler if you will.
Brad Feld tweeted about a Fat Scrobbler (aka wifi enabled scale) this morning that uploads your weight over time to a server, so you can track your fitness.
Foursquare and Gowalla are location scrobblers. It doesn't take a genius to predict that other location based services will soon let you enter in your Foursquare or Gowalla IDs to provide location based alerts / recommendations on top of this scrobbled location data.
There are also calorie scrobblers and running scrobblers and web browsing scrobblers.
Obviously, the rise of smartphones is going to help the scrobbling ecosystem greatly. The biggest weakness of the Last.FM scrobbler was that it only scrobbles music you listen to on your computer, leaving out what you listen to in the car, or on the go. Better phones, better apps, and more bandwidth will help in this area.
My question is... what else can we scrobble? And when are we going to have a scrobbling insert for my throat that tracks all the food and drink that goes down there? I want a display, preferably overlaid on a contact lens, that tells me the point of the day when my calories consumed has surpassed my calories burned.
Mobile + Activity Sensors / Trackers + Scrobbling is going to make for some magical apps.
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